B.A. Trinity College Dublin, 1975
M.A. University of Calgary, 1977
Ph.D. Yale University, 1982
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982-83.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1983-1989.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, Campus Honors Faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-2002.
Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy, Campus Honors Faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002- .
Director, Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005- .
Books and Monographs
The Theological Notion of Anonymous Christianity in Karl Rahner (ed.) (Calgary: The Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1982). 75pp. Monograph. Papers by Maurice Boutin, Hugo Meynell, and Robert McKim.
The Morality of Nationalism Co-edited with Jeff McMahan (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) 371+xii pp.
(La moral del nacionalismo, Volumen I, Volumen II. Translated by Tomas Fernandez Auz y Beatriz Eguibar. A Spanish translation of The Morality of Nationalism published (in two volumes) in January, 2003 by Editorial Gedisa ( Barcelona).) Co-edited with Jeff McMahan
Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2001) 280+xvi pp. This book is available online in its entirety at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/
Articles
"A Response to Professor Boutin on Anonymous Christianity," in The Theological Notion of Anonymous Christianity in Karl Rahner ed. Robert McKim (Calgary: The Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1982, 62-75)
"Wenz on Abstract Ideas and Christian Neo-Platonism in Berkeley," The Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XLIII, No. 4 (October, 1982), 665-671. (Published with reply by Peter Wenz.) - Reprinted in George Berkeley: Critical Assessments Edited by Walter Creery, Vol 2 (London: Routledge, 1991) 219-227.
"Worlds without Evil" The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 15 (1984), 161-170.
" Berkeley on Human Agency" History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2 (April 1984), 181-194.
"An Examination of a Moral Argument against Nuclear Deterrence," The Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 13, No. 2 (Fall 1985), pp. 279-297.
"The Entries in Berkeley's Notebooks: A reply to Bertil Belfrage," Hermathena, No. 139, 156-161; (Winter, 1985) - Reprinted in George Berkeley: Essays and Replies, edited by David Berman (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1986), 156-161.)
"Luce's Account of the Development of Berkeley's Immaterialism" J ournal of the History of Ideas Volume XLVIII, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1987), 649-669.
"What is God doing in the Quad?" Philosophy Research Archives (1987-88), 637-654.
"Could God have more than one nature?" Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct. 1988) 378-398.
"On the Alleged Incoherence of Consequentialism" (co-authored with Peter Simpson), New Scholasticism Summer 1988, Vol. LXII, No.3, 349-352.
"Theism and Proper Basicality" The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22: 29-56 (1989).
" Berkeley's Active Mind" Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 71. Band 1989 Heft 3, 335-343.
"Religious Belief and Religious Diversity" Irish Philosophical Journal Volume 6, Number 2, Autumn 1989, 275-302." - Reprinted in Self, Cosmos, God Edited by Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), 675-690.
"Some Remarks on a Historical Theory of Justice and its Application to Ireland" Philosophical Studies. Volume XXXII, 1988-90, 224-244.
"The Hiddenness of God" Religious Studies 26, (1), 141-161, Mar 90.
"Consequentialism, Incoherence and Choice: A Rejoinder to a Rejoinder" (with Peter Simpson) American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (formerly The New Scholasticism) Vol. LXVI, No.1, 1992.
" Berkeley on Private Ideas and Public Objects" in Phillip D. Cummins and Guenter Zoeller, ed., Minds, Ideas, and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy (Volume II of North American Kant Society Studies in the History of Philosophy) (Wedgeview Press, Atascadero, California, 1992), 215-233.
"The Just War and the Gulf War" (co-authored with Jeff McMahan) The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 23, Number 4, December 1993, 501-541.
"The Significance of Religious Diversity" in Daniel Ross Chandler, ed., The 1993 World's Parliament of Religions: Selected Speeches (CyberSpace Publishing, Fort Worth, Tx., 1994).
" Berkeley" in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement edited by Donald Borchert (New York: Macmillan, 1996), 58-60.
"Environmental Ethics: The Widening Vision" Religious Studies Review Volume 23, Number 3/July 1997, 245-250.
"National Identity and Respect among Nations" in The Morality of Nationalism (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) co-edited by Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan, 258-273.
"Ireland: The Case for Impartiality" in Regional Conflicts and Conflict Resolution: Essays in Honor of Jeremiah D. Sullivan Edited by Roger E. Kanet, published by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995, 79-100.) - Also published in revised form as "The Case for Impartiality in Ireland" in Resolving Regional Conflict edited by Roger E. Kanet, University of Illinois Press, 1998, 65-86.
"Abstraction and Immaterialism in Berkeley: Recent Interpretations" in The Berkeley Newsletter, No.15 (1997-1998) 1-13.
Report to the Illinois State Assembly on Scientific, Ethical, Religious and Legal aspects of Human Cloning . Co-authored with Don Chambers, Ellen Deason, Therese McGuire, Tim Murphy and Tom Ulen. ( Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 2001) 49pp.
“The Hiddenness of God" (an excerpt from Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity) in Philosophy for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Reader, edited by Steven M. Cahn ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 93-97.
“The Goodness of the Real" Sophia Volume 42, Number 2, October 2003, 172-78.
“ Berkeley" in Encyclopedia of Ireland( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 89. (Also published in Ireland by Gill and MacMillan)
A longer excerpt from Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity, also entitled “The Hiddenness of God" reprinted in Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues edited by Steven M Cahn (Oxford University Press, 2004), 494-499.
Another excerpt from Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity has appeared in Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Second Edition Edited by Steven M. Cahn (Oxford University Press, 2004).
" Berkeley's Notebooks" in The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley Edited by Kenneth P. Winkler, ( Cambridge University Press) 2005, 63- 93.
" Berkeley" forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, edited by Donald Borchert ( New York: Macmillan, 2005).
Reviews
Review of Matters of Faith and Matters of Principle by John H. Whittaker, New Scholasticism, Vol. 61 (Spring 1987), 230-238.
Review of Berkeley : The Central Arguments by A.C. Grayling, The Review of Metaphysics June, 1988, 831-833.
Review of Moral Relativity by David Wong The Journal of the American Academy of Religion Fall 1988 56/2 376-379.
Review of Completing Berkeley's Project by Theodore Young, The Berkeley Newsletter. No 10,1987/88, 13-16.
Review of Berkeley's Manuscript Introduction edited by Bertil Belfrage, in Eighteenth Century Ireland. Vol.3, 1988, 166-7.
Review of Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley edited by Ernest Sosa The Berkeley Newsletter No 11 (1989-90), 28-32.
Review of Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy by Gabriel Moked, Journal of the History of Philosophy 29:3, July 1991, 144-6.
Review of God, Suffering and Solipsism by Clement Dore Canadian Philosophical Reviews Volume XI, Number 3, June 1991.
Review of Berkeley : An Interpretation by Kenneth Winkler, Nous Volume XXVII, Number 4, December 1993, 539-546.
Review of Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason by John Schellenberg Faith and Philosophy Volume 12, Number 2, April, 1995, 269-276.
Review of Atheism and Theism by J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane Teaching Philosophy, 21: 3, September 1998, 294-301.
Review of Everybody's Story by Loyal Rue (SUNY, 2000) in Metaviews (web-based publication), May 2002. http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?6248
Review of Divine Hiddenness (ed.) Paul Moser and Daniel Howard-Snyder ( Cambridge, 2002) in Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (web-based philosophy journal) 8/16/2002 - http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/8/mckim-moser.html
Review of Paul Griffiths Problems of Religious Diversity (Routledge, 2002) Faith and Philosophy, October, 2003.
Review of The Land We Share by Eric Freyfogle ( Washington: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003) forthcoming in The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Review of Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature by Richard L. Fern (Cambridge Univrsity Press, 2002) forthcoming in Faith and Philosophy.
Numerous short book reviews in Ethics and Religious Studies Review.
ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS
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Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, l05 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. (217) 244-2657 or (217) 333-2889
e-mail: rmckim@uiuc.edu