Dr. Logan Paul Gage

Dr. Logan Paul Gage

Professor of Philosophy Director of Catholic Studies Graduate Status Faculty

(740) 284-5341

LGage@franciscan.edu

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Overview

Logan Paul Gage is a Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Gage received his B.A. in history, philosophy, and American studies from Whitworth College (2004) and his M.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2014) in philosophy from Baylor University.  His dissertation, written under the supervision of Trent Dougherty, was a defense of the phenomenal conception of evidence and conservative principles in epistemology.  It won Baylor University’s 2014-2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award(Humanities Division). His philosophical specialties (and the majority of his publications) are in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the thought of St. John Henry Newman.  But he also has broad interests in ethics, metaphysics, history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. When not engaged in philosophy, he can be found cooking with his wife (an attorney in a former life), wrestling with his five handsome sons, and pulling out his hair while watching the Seattle Sounders. You can read Dr. Gage's work here on PhilPeople.org.

Education
  • 2014 Ph.D., Philosophy Baylor University
    • Dissertation: “Objectivity and Subjectivity in Epistemology: A Defense of the Phenomenal Conception of Evidence”1
    • Committee: Trent Dougherty (thesis director), Alexander R. Pruss, Francis J. Beckwith, Michael D. Beaty, & Jonathan Tran
  •  2011 M.A., Philosophy Baylor University
  • 2004 B.A., Philosophy, History, & American Studies (summa cum laude) Whitworth College

Experience
  • 2024-present – Director of MA in Catholic Studies, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • 2019-2024 – Philosophy Department Chair, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • Fall 2018 – Interim Graduate Director M.A. Philosophy Program, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • Fall 2014 – Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure-Track) Department of Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Select Publications
  • “Newman the Fallibilist,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 97, No. 1 (2023): 29-47.
  • “Phenomenal Conservatism,” in John M. DePoe and Tyler Dalton McNabb, eds., Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020): 61-81.  Co-authored with Blake McAllister (Hillsdale College).
  • “Phenomenal Conservatism and the Subject’s Perspective Objection,” Acta Analytica Vol. 31, No. 1 (2016): 43-58.
  • “New Atheist Approaches to Religion,” in Graham Oppy, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2015): 51-62. Co-authored with Trent Dougherty (Baylor University).
  • “Evidence and What We Make of It,” Southwest Philosophy Review Vol. 30, No. 2 (2014): 89-99.
  • “Newman and Quasi-Fideism: A Reply to Duncan Pritchard,” Heythrop Journal Vol. 64, No. 5 (2023): 695-706.
  • “Is the God Hypothesis Improbable? A Response to Dawkins,” in Kevin Vallier & Joshua Rasmussen, eds., A New Theist Response to the New Atheists, New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology & Biblical Studies Series (New York: Routledge, 2020): 59-76.
  • “On the Epistemic Role of Our Passional Nature,” Newman Studies Journal Vol. 17, No. 2 (2020): 41-58.
  • “A Saint for Our Times: Newman on Faith, Fallibility, and Certitude,” LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture Vol. 23, No. 2 (2020): 60-76.
  • “Newman’s Argument from Conscience: Why He Needs Paley and Natural Theology After All,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 94, No. 1 (2020): 141-157.
  • “Can Experience Fulfill the Many Roles of Evidence?” Quaestiones Disputatae Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2018): 87-111.
  • “Rudolf Carnap,” in Paul Copan, Tremper Longman III, Christopher L. Reese, & Michael G. Strauss, eds., Dictionary of Christianity and Science: The Definitive Reference for the Intersection of Christian Faith and Contemporary Science (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2017): 79-80.
  • “William Paley,” in Paul Copan, Tremper Longman III, Christopher L. Reese, & Michael G. Strauss, eds., Dictionary of Christianity and Science: The Definitive Reference for the Intersection of Christian Faith and Contemporary Science (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2017): 500.
  • “New Atheist Approaches to Religion,” in Graham Oppy, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2015): 51-62.  Co-authored with Trent Dougherty (Baylor University).
  • “Against Contextualism: Belief, Evidence, & the Bank Cases,” Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology Vol. 17, No. 1 (2013): 57-70.
  • “Darwin Knows Best: Can Evolution Support the Classical Liberal Vision of the Family?” in Stephen Dilley, ed., Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013): 135-156.
  • “St. Thomas Aquinas on Intelligent Design,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association Vol. 85 (2011): 79-97.  Co-authored with Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin).