C. Stephen Evans (Ph.D. Yale) is University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University. Evans is known as a Kierkegaard scholar and philosopher of religion, and is working on a book on the virtue of accountability. Among other things, the book will include an examination of the relation between accountability to other human persons and our ultimate accountability to God.
Robert C. Roberts (Ph.D. Yale) is Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Emeritus, at Baylor University. He works in philosophical moral psychology, with special interest in emotions and virtues. He is currently at work on a book titled Kierkegaard’s Psychology of Character. For the seminar, Roberts is working on questions about virtue individuation in connection with the proposed virtue of accountability.
Andrew Torrance is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is also the co-founder of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology. The primary focus of his research has been on the theology of Kierkegaard, the doctrine of creation, and the relationship between science and theology. He is currently working on a book on a theology of accountability, addressing the question of what it means to be human before God.
Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet (Ph.D. Purdue University) is the Lavern and Betty DePree Van Kley Professor of Psychology at Hope College. Trained in clinical psychology, her research investigates the psychophysiology of emotion and virtue. She is developing measures of accountability to people and to the transcendent. She is also investigating the bio-psycho-social-spiritual facets of accountability.
John Peteet (M.D. Columbia) is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has taught and published at the intersection of spirituality and medicine, and is working on a book on the virtues in psychiatric practice. The book will include a chapter on accountability as a virtue understood in relation to psychological science, its clinical relevance and its therapeutic implications.
Byron R. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. He is the founding director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR), as well as director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior. He is a leading authority on the scientific study of religion, the efficacy of faith-based organizations, and criminal justice. He is working primarily on the quantitative component of the accountability project, particularly in his research on accountability among prisoners.
Sung Joon Jang (Ph.D. The University at Albany, State University of New York) is Research Professor of Criminology and Co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. Jang’s current research examines whether religion contributes to identity transformation and promotes a sense of meaning and purpose in life and virtues, including accountability, among offenders in prisons.
Brendan Case (Th.D., Duke Divinity School) is a postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. His dissertation explored the metaphysics of creation in St. Bonaventure and Bishop Berkeley, while his current research concerns the relations among accountability, the virtue of justice, and the Christian doctrine of justification.
Joseph Leman just obtained his Doctorate in Psychology and Neuroscience from Baylor University. His research is primarily directed towards understanding and measuring the psychological aspects of virtue such as Intellectual Humility and Accountability. Joseph is also interested in exploring the psychological aspects of religiosity, such as God-Image and Attachment to God. He is currently a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
