Robert Merrihew Adams will be joining our faculty in July of 2009. His interests are in moral theory, metaphysics, medieval and early modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Some publications include: Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006); “Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil,” The American Philosophical Quarterly (1977); “Existence, Self-Interest, and the Problem of Evil,” Noûs (1979); “Time and Thisness,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1986); “Moral Horror and the Sacred,” Journal of Religious Ethics (1995); “Thisness and Time Travel,” Philosophia (1997); “Things in Themselves,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1997); “Conflict.”  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, (forthcoming, 2009).