Curriculum Vitae

Education

• M.L.S. Indiana University Bloomington May 2014
• M.I.S. (digital library specialization) Indiana University Bloomington May 2014
• Ph.D., Philosophy Fordham University 2004
• M.A., Philosophy (magna cum laude) Fordham University 1996
• B.A., Philosophy (summa cum laude) University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1993

Professional Experience

• Christian Theological Seminary – Systems Librarian October 2014–present
• Since 2021, I've been the only full-time librarian at CTS. So my duties are quite varied.
• My primary responsibilities are cataloging (copy and original), inter-library loans, managing online database access, maintaining the library website and online chat system, and managing course reserves.
• Other duties include managing the circulation desk, supervising student workers, and occasionally assisting with collection development.
• Humanities Subject Specialist / Collection Development Intern Jan. 2014–August 2014
• Assisted humanities subject specialists at Indiana University Bloomington’s main library with collection development, preparation of instructional support materials including LibGuides, and answering reference and research questions.
• Performed collection development activities, including selection of materials, for Philosophy, Classics, History, History and Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies.
• Familiar with YBP, Harrassowitz, Casalini Libri, and Aux Amateurs des Livres vendor websites.
• Digital Humanities Research Assistant Jan. 2014–August 2014
• Assisted IU Professor John Walsh with The Chymistry of Isaac Newton digital humanities project (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/).
• Used XSLT to convert project XML files from TEI P4 to TEI P5.
• Performed citation analysis on Newton’s alchemical writings.
• Education Library Reference Assistant May 2013–May 2014
• Worked at the reference and circulation desks at the IU Education Library, helping patrons locate materials, use library equipment, and construct effective searches in online databases.
• During night and weekend shifts was responsible for opening/closing the library.
• Alternate Media Production Assistant May 2013–Jan. 2014
• Worked at the IU Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center preparing course materials for students with disabilities.
• Prepared textbook and PowerPoint content for screen readers, provided descriptive captions for video materials, and documented procedures.
• Web Migration Assistant Summer 2013
• Worked at the IU Libraries Digital User Experience department preparing for upcoming migration of the library website to a new Drupal-powered system.
• Performed content auditing and usage analysis via Google Analytics.
• Information Retrieval Research Assistant May 2012–Dec. 2013
• Assisted IU Professor Xiaozhong Liu with information retrieval research; mostly copyediting.
• Digital Humanities Research Assistant Sept. 2011–May 2012
• Assisted IU Professor John Walsh with revisions to the Swinburne Project digital library (http://swinburneproject.indiana.edu/swinburne/).
• Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Jan. 1997–May 2011
• Had full responsibility for designing and teaching undergraduate Philosophy courses at the University of Notre Dame; Indiana University South Bend; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Fordham University.
• From 2005 to 2008 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at UNLV.
• From 2008 to 2011 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame.
• Project Management Support Specialist Aug. 1998–June 2005
• Was a key team-player at PCI Group of Nevada, Inc., a major regional construction management firm.
• Provided in-house and customer IT support, including software training.
• Designed and managed the company website.
• Developed custom project management tools, including CPM Gantt charts, database reports, and document management systems.
• Digital Production Editor June 1997–July 1998
• Performed digital manuscript processing, table and data formatting, and page layout at Plenum Publishing, a major scientific publisher.
• Assistant Copyeditor and Proofreader Sept. 1993–May 1995
• Assisted the managing editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly, an academic Philosophy journal, with copyediting, proofreading, and subscription database management.
• History Research Assistant Sept. 1992–Aug. 1993
• Assisted UNLV Professor Maurice Finocchiaro, a prominent Galilean translator and historian, with library research and manuscript preparation.
• Library Circulations Assistant Sept. 1992–May 1993
• Assisted patrons, shelved books, and worked the circulation and reserve desks at the UNLV main library.

Professional Skills

Software

Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, UNIX/Linux

Productivity: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Microsoft Project

Web development: Oxygen, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Axure

Technical

Web encoding: HTML, CSS, XML (XPath, XQuery, XSLT), RDF/OWL

Programming: PHP, JavaScript / JQuery, Java

Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Metadata: Dublin Core, MODS, MARC, TEI

Content management: WordPress, Omeka

Web accessibility: WCAG 2.0, Section 508

Languages

English (fluent); Spanish, French, German, Latin (reading competence)

Academic Positions Held

• Adjunct Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame 2009–2011
• Visiting Scholar Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame 2010–2011
• Adjunct Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Indiana South Bend Fall 2010
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame 2008–2009
• Visiting Assistant Professor University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2005–2008
• Part-Time Instructor University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1999–2005
• Teaching Fellow Fordham University 1997–1998

Research Expertise

Monographs

• Open Theism (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements series)

Dissertation

• The Problem of Induction: An Epistemological and Methodological Response
      Director: John Greco

Published Academic Papers

1. forthcoming: "Future Contingency, Future Indeterminacy, and Grounding: Comments on Todd," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
2. 2022: "Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil," Encounter 82(2): 1–37.
Also translated in Swedish and published in Francis Jonbäck, Oliver Li, and Lina Åhlfeldt (Eds.), Vidgade perspektiv på Lidandets Problem [Eng: "Broader Perspectives on the Problem of Evil"] (Dialogos).
3. 2020: "Is an Open Infinite Future Impossible? A Reply to Pruss," Faith and Philosophy 37: 363-369. (with Elijah Hess)
4. 2016: "Bootstrapping Divine Foreknowledge? Comments on Fischer," Science, Religion and Culture, 4(2): 72–78.
5. 2014: “Foreknowledge and Fatalism: Why Divine Timelessness Doesn’t Help,” in L. Nathan Oaklander (Ed.), Debates in the Metaphysics of Time (London: Continuum), pp. 253–274.
6. 2013: “Open Theism and Other Models of Divine Providence,” in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (Eds.), Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Springer), pp. 287–298.
7. 2012: “In Defense of Weak Inferential Internalism: Reply to Alexander,” Journal of Philosophical Research 37: 379–385.
8. 2011: “Peirce and Lonergan on Inquiry and the Pragmatics of Inference,” International Philosophical Quarterly 51(2): 181–194.
9. 2011: “The Fivefold Openness of the Future,” in William Hasker, Dean Zimmerman, and Thomas Jay Oord (Eds.), God in an Open Universe: Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism (Eugene, OR: Pickwick), pp. 69–93.
10. 2010: “Gratuitous Evil and Divine Providence,” Religious Studies 46 (2010): 281–302.
11. 2010: “Probability, Truth, and the Openness of the Future: A Reply to Pruss,” Faith and Philosophy 27: 197–204.
12. 2009: “Presentism, Truthmakers, and God,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90: 41–62.
13. 2009: “Beyond the Chessmaster Analogy: Game Theory and Divine Providence,” in Thomas Jay Oord (Ed.), Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science (Eugene, OR: Pickwick), pp. 151–175.
14. 2008: “Fumerton’s Principle of Inferential Justification, Skepticism, and the Nature of Inference,” Journal of Philosophical Research 33 (2008): 215–234.
15. 2008: “Generic Open Theism and Some Varieties Thereof,” Religious Studies 44: 225–234.
16. 2007: “The Philosophical Case for Open Theism,” Philosophia 35: 301–311.
17. 2006: “Open Theism, Omniscience, and the Nature of the Future,” Faith and Philosophy 23: 432–459. (with G. A. Boyd and T. G. Belt)

Other Academic Publications

1. forthcoming: Review of Patrick Todd, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False (Oxford University Press, 2021). Journal of Analytic Theology.
2. 2018: Review of Trent Dougherty and Justin McBrayer (Eds.), Skeptical Theism: New Essays (Oxford University Press, 2014). Journal of Analytic Theology 6: 784–788.
https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/252/479.
3. 2015: Review of J. P. Moreland, C. Meister, & K. A. Sweis (Eds.), Debating Christian Theism (Oxford University Press, 2013). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/debating-christian-theism/.
4. 2013: “Critical Thinking,” in Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., (Ed.), New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012–13: Ethics and Philosophy (Cengage).
5. 2010: Review of James A. Keller, Problems of Evil and the Power of God (Ashgate, 2007). Ars Disputandi [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org] 10: 158–162.
6. 2005: Review of Richard Swinburne, ed., Bayes’s Theorem (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 113), Oxford University Press, 2002. International Philosophical Quarterly 45: 269–270.

Academic Presentations

1. "Comments on Zagzebski, 'The Atheist's Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge," Freedom & Foreknowledge conference, Dallas, TX, August 18, 2014.
2. "Foreknowledge and Fatalism: Why Divine Timelessness Doesn't Help," Freedom & Foreknowledge conference, Dallas, TX, August 18, 2014.
3. "Arguing for the Existence of God," Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, April 18, 2016.
4. Comments on Kenneth Faber, “The Trans-temporal Totality and the Open Future,” Group Meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society, APA Eastern Division, Boston, MA, December 2010.
5. “Five Roads to Fatalism and the Openness of the Future,” Group Meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society, APA Central Division, Chicago, IL, February 17–20, 2010.
6. “Four Types of Gratuitous Evil,” Wesleyan Philosophical Society, Anderson, IN, March 5, 2009.
7. “Starting, Stopping, and the Continuity of Time,” Group Meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society, APA Central Division, Chicago, IL, February 18–21, 2009.
8. Comments on Ernani Magalhaes, “Time without Change and without Persistence,” Group Meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society, APA Eastern Division, Philadelphia, PA, December 2008.
9. “Open Theism and the Openness of the Future,” Valparaiso University, October 21, 2008. (invited)
10. “The Fourfold Openness of the Future,” Open & Relational Theology Engaging Science, Azusa Pacific University, April 10–12, 2008.
11. “Indeterminism and Branching Time without Truth-Value Gaps,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, April 20, 2007.
12. “Generic Open Theism and Some Varieties Thereof,” APA Pacific Division, “Models of God” mini-conference, San Francisco, CA, April 4–6, 2007.
13. “Fumerton’s Principle of Inferential Justification, Skepticism, and the Nature of Inference,” Group Meeting of the Society for Skeptical Studies, APA Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December 2006.
14. “Peirce and Lonergan on Questions, Inference, and the Process of Inquiry,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, November 3, 2006.
15. “A Defense of Prior’s ‘Peircean’ Tense Logic,” Group Meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society, APA Pacific Division, Portland, OR, March 2006.
16. “Presentism, Truthmakers, and God,” EPS, Fort Worth, PA, November 2005.
17. “Is the Future Settled or Open?” EPS, San Antonio, TX, November 2004.
18. “The Hexagon of Opposition: Thinking Outside the Aristotelian Box.” EPS, San Antonio, TX, November 2004 (with G. A. Boyd and T. G. Belt).
19. “Inferential Internalism, Inductive Skepticism, and Two Conceptions of Inference,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, October 2004.
20. “A Peircean Response to Hume’s Critique of Ampliative Reasoning,” ACPA, Loudonville, NY, Spring 1997.
21. “Chance vs. Design: Is God Really Superfluous?” EPS, Washington, D.C., November 1993.

Multimedia Presentiations

1. 2022: "Responding to Mr. Fortenberry - A Criticism of Open Theism", Idol Killer, https://youtu.be/KU_trMxANmM
2. 2022: "Divine Providence & the Problem of Evil - 4 Views", Idol Killer, https://youtu.be/WPr7rj6WAwg
3. 2022: "A Philosophical Case for Open Theism (Dr. Alan Rhoda)", The Analytic Christian, https://youtu.be/waSS4jY0-sQ
4. 2021: "A Defense of Open Theism (w/ Dr. Alan Rhoda)", Adherent Apologetics, https://youtu.be/oXHgAXWzfrU
5. 2019: "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge: The Open Theist Perspective from Alan Rhoda, Part 1," The Examined Life with Phil Kallberg, https://www.spreaker.com/user/wcatradio/wcat-radio-the-examined-life-052419
6. 2019: "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge: The Open Theist Perspective from Alan Rhoda, Part 2," The Examined Life with Phil Kallberg, https://www.spreaker.com/user/wcatradio/wcat-radio-the-examined-life-053119
7. 2008: "Answering the Critics (Part 8 of 20)," opentheology, https://youtu.be/85o-S9K7qCw.

Courses Taught

Honors and Awards

• 2008–2009, Postdoctoral research fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Center for Philosophy of Religion ($30,000)
• 2006, Invited and paid participant in a 3-week Templeton Foundation summer seminar, “Open Theology and Science,” Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA, June 17–July 7, 2007
• 1993–1997, Presidential Fellowship, Fordham University ($48,000)
• 1993–1997, Bennett Scholarship, Fordham University (4 years tuition remission)
• 1993, Departmental Honors in Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 1993, Award for Excellence in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 1989–1993, Elardi–Wynn Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($10,000)
• 1989, Bird Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($1,500)
• 1989, Valedictorian, Las Vegas High School
• 1989, National Merit Semi-Finalist

Professional Service

• 2014, Referee, American Philosophical Quarterly
• 2013, Referee, Mind; Ars Disputandi; Philosophia; Philosophical Quarterly
• 2012, Referee, Philosophical Quarterly; Ars Disputandi
• 2011, Referee, Grazer Philosophische Studien
• 2010, Consultant for 3rd edition of the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi
• 2010, Referee, Grazer Philosophische Studien; Philosophia
• 2010, Session chair, Logos Workshop in Philosophical Theology, Rutgers University, May 13–15
• 2008, Referee, Faith and Philosophy
• 2006, Referee, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mountain–Plains Philosophy Conference