Professor T. Ryan Byerly

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Professor in Philosophy of Religion

A portrait photo of philosopher T. Ryan Byerly. He is wearing a white shirt and patterned gold tie.
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t.r.byerly@sheffield.ac.uk
9 Mappin Street

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Professor T. Ryan Byerly
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
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Ryan joined the Department in Spring 2015. Previously, Ryan completed his PhD at Baylor University and taught at Regent University in the USA. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Theory.

Publications

Books

  • Byerly TR (2023) . Oxford University Press.
  • Byerly TR (2021) . Routledge.
  • Byerly T (2021) Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal. New York: Routledge Press.
  • Byerly TR (2018) Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Byerly TR (2017) Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking: The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry. Baker Academic.
  • Byerly TR (2014) The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence A Time-Ordering Account. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Edited books

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  • Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.) (2017) Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven. Oxford University Press.

Journal articles

  • Chaloner DT, Francl M & Byerly TR (2025) . Nature Chemistry, 17(8), 1139-1141.
  • Byerly TR (2023) . Mental Health Religion and Culture, 26(1), 62-75.
  • Byerly TR (2023) . Social Epistemology, 37(3), 290-304.
  • Byerly TR & Haggard M (2023) . Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 95-107.
  • Byerly TR (2023) . Religious Studies, 59(3), 564-566.
  • Byerly TR (2023) . Episteme, 20(2), 410-428.
  • Byerly TR (2022) . Synthese, 200(2).
  • Byerly TR, Hill PC & Edwards KJ (2022) . Personality and Individual Differences, 186(Part A).
  • Byerly TR (2022) . Religious Studies, 58(4), 831-845.
  • Byerly TR, Edwards KJ & Hill PC (2022) . Journal of Psychology and Theology, 50(3), 340-354.
  • Byerly TR (2021) . Res Philosophica, 98(2), 161-179.
  • BYERLY TR (2021) . Religious Studies, 57(3), 567-571.
  • Byerly R (2019) . TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 3(2), 77-97.
  • Byerly TR (2019) . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(2), 1-21.
  • Byerly TR (2019) . Teaching Philosophy, 42(1), 1-27.
  • Byerly TR (2019) . Thought, 8(4), 278-285.
  • Byerly TR (2018) . Philosophical Studies, 175(11), 2695-2713.
  • Byerly TR (2018) . Analysis.
  • Byerly TR (2018) . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83, 85-96.
  • Byerly TR (2017) . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9(4), 3-12.
  • Byerly TR (2017) . Sophia, 1-22.
  • Byerly TR (2015) . Journal of Value Inquiry.
  • Byerly TR (2015) . Res Philosophica.
  • Byerly TR (2015) Problems for Explanationism on Both Sides. Erkenntnis.
  • Byerly TR (2015) Do god's beliefs about the future depend on the future?. The Journal of Analytic Theology, 3.
  • Byerly TR (2014) A Dispositional, Internalist, Evidentialist Virtue Epistemology. Logos and Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology, V(4), 399-424.
  • Byerly TR (2014) . Philosophia.
  • Byerly TR (2014) . Sophia, 53(4).
  • Byerly TR & Padgett D (2014) Reconstituting Ersatzer Presentism. Res Philosophica.
  • Byerly TR (2014) God Knows the Future by Ordering the Times. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.
  • Byerly TR (2013) . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 137-154.
  • Byerly TR (2013) . Ratio, 27(1), 53-67.
  • Byerly TR (2013) Explanationism and Justified Beliefs about the Future. Erkenntnis.
  • Byerly TR (2012) It Seems Like there aren't Any Seemings. Philosophia.
  • Byerly TR (2012) Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 4(4).
  • Byerly TR (2011) Ockhamism vs Molinism, Round Two: A Reply to Warfield. Religious Studies.
  • Byerly TR (2010) The Ontomystical Argument, Revisited. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
  • Byerly TR & Byerly M () . Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 54(3).

Book chapters

  • Byerly TR (2023) , The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (pp. 63-73). Routledge
  • Byerly TR (2022) , Social Virtue Epistemology (pp. 453-469). Routledge
  • Byerly TR (2022) In Buchak L & Zimmerman DW (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion (pp. 40-82). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Byerly TR (2021) , Death, Immortality and Eternal Life (pp. 1-7). Taylor & Francis
  • Byerly TR (2017) The All-Powerful, Perfectly Good, and Free God In Kvanvig JL (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion OUP
  • Byerly TR (2017) Virtues of Repair in Paradise In Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.), Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven Oxford University Press
  • Byerly TR (2015) what's wrong with satanic temptation? In McCraw B & Arp R (Ed.), Philosophical Approaches to the Devil Routledge
  • Byerly TR (2014) Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of Freedom, The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (pp. 37-54). Bloomsbury Press
Postgraduate Supervision

Ryan welcomes PhD supervision in Philosophy of Religion and Virtue Theory

Current PhD Students:

Samuel Yao Jian Chan  (First supervisor). Thesis topic: assessing theistic moral arguments from moral realism

Yuhan (Felicity) Fu (First supervisor). Thesis topic: motion and moral psychology

George Surtees (First supervisor). Thesis topic: How intellectual humility can promote close friendship between people of different social identities?

Henry Roe (Second supervisor), Thesis topic: Epistemic arrogance of individuals and collectives