Timothy McGrew is a contemporary analytic philosopher at Western Michigan University specializing in epistemology and the philosophy of religion. He is known for his defense of classical foundationalism and direct realism in epistemology, as well as for Bayesian analyses of historical evidence bearing on religious claims. His work bridges formal epistemology, philosophy of perception, and natural theology.
Developed a rigorous defense of classical foundationalism against coherentist and contextualist alternatives
Argued that perceptual experiences with nonconceptual content can serve as genuine evidence, grounding direct realism
Co-authored a landmark Bayesian case for the historicity of the resurrection in The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Contributed formal probabilistic methods to the epistemology of testimony and historical inference
Authored The Foundations of Knowledge (1995), defending a direct realist theory of epistemic justification
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