Dr Jeffrey Schloss

T.B. Walker Chair of Biology
Westmont College in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California, United States

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Biography

Jeffrey Schloss studied biology and philosophy as an undergraduate, pursued post-baccalaureate study in field biology at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, and received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Wheaton College, and Jaguar Creek Tropical Research Center. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Biology and the T.B. Walker Chair of Natural & Behavioral Sciences at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for Faith, Ethics and Life Sciences. Jeff also serves as Senior Scholar for the BioLogos Foundation.  He has been a Danforth Fellow, a Senior Fellow at the Emory Center for Law and Religion, a Crosson Fellow at Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion, a Plumer Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford, and a Witherspoon Fellow in Theology and Natural Sciences at the Center for Theological Inquiry.  His twofold academic interests involve theoretical foundations and philosophical implications of evolutionary accounts of altruism, morality, and religious cognition, and empirical studies of neurophysiological and behavioral impacts of group rituals, including religious worship.  Collaborative volumes include Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford, edited with Stephen Post, et. al.); Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective (Eerdmans, edited with Philip Clayton); The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion (Oxford, edited with Michael Murray); Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives? (Transaction, edited with Hilary Putnam & Susan Nieman).

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Philosophy of Religion

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Evolution, Human Origins

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