Marilyn McCord Adams joined our faculty in July 2009. Her interests are in the philosophy of religion, medieval and early modern philosophy and metaphysics. Some publications include: Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (1999); Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (2006);“Was Ockham a Humean about Efficient Causality?” Franciscan Studies (1979); “The Structure of Ockham’s Moral Theory,” Franciscan Studies (1986); “William Ockham: Voluntarist or Naturalist,” in Studies in Medieval Philosophy (1987); "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1989); “Dissolution and Integrity in the Fourteenth Century,” in Tradition and Ecstacy: Agony in the Fourteenth Century (Ottawa, Canada: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1997); Horrors in Theological Context,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (2001); “Powerless Causes: The Case of Sacramental Causality,” Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburg Press, 2007).

