Name Mark Johnston | Role Philosopher | |
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Education Princeton University (1983) Books Surviving Death, Saving God: Religion After Idolatry | ||
Mark Johnston is an Australian philosopher, who has spent his entire career at Princeton University.
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Biography and career
Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D there in 1984. His dissertation, "Particulars and Persistence," was directed by Saul Kripke. A native of Australia, Johnston was "educated by Jesuits and briefly considered taking priestly orders before opting for a PhD in philosophy instead."
Johnston is also the Senior Academic Advisor to the Marc Sanders Foundation, which awards prizes for the best work in various areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics.
Philosophical work
Johnston has written many articles on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and metaethics and, more recently, two books in philosophy of religion, Saving God: Religion After Idolatry (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Surviving Death (Princeton University Press, 2010). The literary critic James Wood picked Saving God as one of the top non-fiction books of 2009 in The New Yorker.