Research Interests:

Philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics.

Co-founder of Australasian Association for Philosophy of Religion ( http://www.csu.edu.au/research/apra ).

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW (1993-96)
Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree, at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney, NSW (1993-1996)
Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Philosophy) at the University of Melbourne (1997)
Certificate IV in Financial Services (General Insurance), at the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (1999-2001)
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, at Charles Sturt University (as an external student), Wagga Wagga, New South Wales (2004-present)
PhD in Philosophy, Monash University (2002-2004).

Books:

The God Beyond Belief: In Defence of William Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil, with a Foreword by William L. Rowe, published in 2006 by Springer Publishing.
Editor of William Rowe on Philosophy of Religion: Selected Works, due to be published by Ashgate in 2007.
Editor, with Graham Oppy, of A History of Western Philosophy of Religion, volumes 1-5, under contract with Acumen.
Editor, with Daniel Cohen, of Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility , under contract with Cambridge Scholars Press (contributors include Robert Kane, John Martin Fischer, Derk Pereboom, J.J.C. Smart, Ishtayique Haji, and Saul Smilansky).

Recent publications:

'Evil and the Complexity of History: A Response to Durston,' Religious Studies, vol.39, no. 4, December 2003, pp.451-458.
'What No Eye Has Seen: The Skeptical Theist Response to Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil,' Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers, vol.6, no. 2, Fall-Winter 2003, pp.250-66.
'On the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies: A Reply to Tierno,'Sophia, vol.42, no. 2, October 2003, pp.99-106.
'God, Gratuitous Evil, and van Inwagen's Attempt to Reconcile the Two,'Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 3, 2003.
'Salvation in Heaven?' (with Graham Oppy and Yujin Nagasawa),Philosophical Papers, vol.33, no. 1, March 2004, pp.95-117.
'Interview with William Rowe,' Philosophy Now, issue 47, August-September 2004, pp.16-18.
'Review of Nicholas Rescher, On Leibniz (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003),' The Leibniz Review, vol.14, 2004, pp.89-98.
'Second Thoughts on the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies,'Sophia, vol. 43, no. 2, October 2004, pp.87-93.
'Skeptical Theism and Moral Skepticism: A Reply to Almeida and Oppy' (with Yujin Nagasawa), Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 4, 2004.
Entry on "The Evidential Problem of Evil' in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, available at <http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-evi.htm >, published April 2005.
'Is Theism Capable of Accounting for Any Natural Evil at All?'International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 57, no. 1, 2005, pp.35-66.
'Gregory Palamas on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology,'Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy , vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 2005.
'Why There Is Reason to Remain Sceptical of Durston's Scepticism',Religious Studies, vol. 42, 2006, pp.101-109.
'Nietzsche's Perspectivism and Problems of Self-Refutation,'International Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 46, no. 1, March 2006, pp.91-110.
"Confronting the Horror of Natural Evil: An Exchange Between Peter Coghlan (Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University) and Nick Trakakis", Sophia , vol. 45, no. 2, October 2006, pp.5-26.
'Karma and the Problem of Evil: A Response to Whitley Kaufman' (with Monima Chadha), Philosophy East & West , forthcoming.