1940 – 2004
Philip L. Quinn (1940-2004) was an American philosopher of religion who taught at the University of Notre Dame, where he held the John A. O'Brien Chair. He is known for his rigorous analytic work on divine command theory, religious epistemology, and the intersection of religion and ethics.
Authored Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978), a seminal defense of divine command ethics
Served as president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division)
Co-edited A Companion to Philosophy of Religion with Charles Taliaferro
Advanced analytic treatments of Pascal's Wager and religious decision theory
Held the John A. O'Brien Chair of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame