Kevin Timpe is the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin College. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University in 2004. His primary research interests range across the metaphysics of free will, philosophy of disability, virtue theory, and philosophical theology. He has published nine books, including Disability and Inclusive Community (Calvin Press, 2018), the Routledge Companion to Free Will (Routledge, 2017), Virtues and their Vices (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Free Will in Philosophical Theology (Bloomsbury, 2013). In addition, he’s published over 50 journal articles and book chapters.
I was a visiting scholar at the Civil Rights and Civic Virtues Society at Auburn University at Montgomery this past summer. My presentation was “Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue.” A recording of that presentation can be watched on YouTube here.
Kevin TimpeJuly 23, 2024
I was asked to give a public talk for the 2024 CICW Disability and Ministry Workshop. The title of that talk is "Can We Flourish Together When Some are Let Out? Intellectual Disability and Care in Our Churches." A recording of that presentation can be…
Kevin TimpeJune 30, 2024
Conference handout here. Longer draft paper here (please do not cite or circulate without permission).
Kevin TimpeJuly 12, 2022