Associate Professor (Teaching) in Philosophy/Religious Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, and comparative ethics
| Website | https://sites.google.com/view/thomasdcarroll/ |
| Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137407900 |
| Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein | https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rethinking-philosophy-of-religion-with-wittgenstein-9781350471559/ |
| PhilPeople | https://philpeople.org/profiles/thomas-d-carroll |
Looking forward to this new collection on Wittgenstein & Epistemology of Religion (edited by Duncan Pritchard & Nuno Venturinha) coming out next month.
It grew out of a couple of conferences held in Lisbon. Looking forward to reading the finished volume!
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Wittgenstein+and+the+Epistemology+of+Religion-p-9781394360802
I wrote a short blog post about two articles I wrote that were published earlier this year. While the topics are quite different--atheism and communicative reticence & religious diversity--my interest in Wittgenstein and hermeneutics links the two pieces.
https://thomasdcarroll.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-new-ish-articles.html
I have a new open access article out today in AGATHEOS: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion -- "Wittgenstein, Religious Diversity, and Communicative Reticence"
Abbey Lincoln, "Africa" (1973)
I recently came across Abbey Lincoln while listening to Max Roach. Wow, she's amazing.
My book, Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein, arrived today.
I'm grateful to Bloomsbury for publishing it & to J. Aaron Simmons and Kevin Schilbrack for including it in the Expanding Philosophy of Religion book series.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rethinking-philosophy-of-religion-with-wittgenstein-9781350471559/
I just wrote a blog post on my new book, Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein, and the two themes that drive the book: Chinese religious diversities & the intertwining of religion and racism in the United States.
https://thomasdcarroll.blogspot.com/2025/07/rethinking-philosophy-of-religion-with.html
"Fleurette Africaine" Duke Ellington, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus (1962)
Apparently, it was a very difficult recording session, but you wouldn't know it from this quiet and pensive song.
Daily Nous || Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who was having difficulty moving after Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents threw canisters of tear gas at them and their fellow
"[W]hile the US has historically been the primary draw for Chinese students, industry insiders say Singapore may see an uptick in applications from Chinese students in the short term amid growing uncertainty and instability in the US."
Based on anecdotal evidence from my students, I'm not surprised at all by this. But many of them are focusing on Canadian universities at present.
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