Matthew Benton

Matthew Benton

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University
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Matthew Benton is an assistant professor of philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame (2015-16), and in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2012-15). He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University.

His research interests are primarily in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion, and he teaches in these areas as well as in logic. He is co-editor (with John Hawthorne and Dani Rabinowitz) of Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2018), and (with Jonathan Kvanvig) of Religious Disagreement and Pluralism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 

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