Matthew A. Benton

Matthew A. Benton is Seminar Fellow for the Notre Dame Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion, and a researcher in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously Visiting Associate Research Professor in the Center, and from 2016-2025 he was a philosophy professor at Seattle Pacific University. He also held postdoctoral research fellowships at Notre Dame and at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University, and an MA from Yale University.

His scholarly research covers Epistemology, Ethics, and Language (e.g. on knowledge and knowing other people, on relationships, empathy, honesty, lying, goodness, and hope in moral psychology). Related work is on ways these converge in Philosophy of Language (on assertion, responsibility in communication, hedged communication, testimony, etc.), or in Philosophy of Religion (on the epistemology of religion, and the problem of evil). Recent research has been funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation. His latest book was named "One of the best new Epistemology books" by BookAuthority.