Watkins is a contemporary philosopher working in philosophy of religion, contributing to debates surrounding divine attributes and the nature of God's experiential states. Their work engages questions of divine passibility, examining whether a perfect or maximally great being must have the capacity to experience suffering or pain.
Advanced arguments for divine passibility within analytic philosophy of religion
Contributed to debates on the necessary properties of a maximally great being
Examined the logical relationship between omniscience and experiential states such as pain