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- Excellence in Advising 2005 Biography Keith Cooper has been teaching at PLU since 1984. His graduate degrees in philosophy are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he also has a master’s degree in theology. His main areas of interest are the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, especially the question of methodological parallels between metaphysical inquiry and scientific theorizing (e.g., abductive reasoning). Favorite courses, in addition to those areas, include Formal Logic and

Gail Egbers Emeritus Librarian Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education M.A., Library Science, University of Denver, 1974 B.A., English, Midland Lutheran College, 1973 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise English History Religion Selected Presentations Part of Tacoma Reads Together, panel discussion with Adam Woog, Mary Levesque and Julie Ciccarelli, Everybody Loves a Mystery, Tacoma Public Library (May 25, 2010) PLU Faculty House Noon Presentation, Libraries at Oxford, Pacific Lutheran

a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields. I have taught courses in the following areas: logic, ethics (incl. metaethics and moral psychology), epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and all periods in the history of Western philosophy. That’s not an exhaustive list (!), and I have many philosophical

interests include morality/values, evolutionary psychology, and “alternative” belief systems (e.g., conspiracies, the occult, etc.). Selected Publications Cook, C. L., & Franks, A. S. (2022). Religious identity and intersectional privilege: (A)Symmetric biases in Christians and atheists are unaffected by prompts to consider religious and racial privilege. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000477 Klein, R. A., Cook, C. L., Ebersole, C. R., Vitiello, C., Nosek, B. A

Museum, and the Lutheran Academy of Scholars at Harvard University; he has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others; he is a founding member on the board of editors of a German journal, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History Quarterly; and he serves as Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2004 Ericksen delivered the biennial Kaplan Holocaust Lectures