Mitchell O. Stokes, Ph.D. Fellow of Philosophy

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2005 M.A. in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2003 M.A. in Religion (Philosophy of Religion), Yale University, 2001 Additional Graduate Study in Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL, 1994-1999 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Central Florida, 1994 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, 1992

Dr. Mitch Stokes is a Fellow of Philosophy, responsible for teaching the freshman-level Principia Mathematica Colloquium, lecturing in the upper-level Traditio Occidentis integrated humanities courses, and teaching electives in philosophy. Dr. Stokes is also a member of the College's graduate faculty and teaches graduate courses in philosophy. Dr. Stokes received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1992 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1994. He worked as an engineer from 1994 to 2001 at Siemens-Westinghouse Power Corp. in Orlando and Precision Combustion, Inc., in New Haven, CT. While serving as an advanced and senior engineer in Florida in the 1990s, Dr. Stokes took theological courses at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He went on to complete an M.A. in Religion (Philosophy of Religion) at Yale University under Dr. Nick Wolterstorff in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy at University of Notre Dame in 2003. He completed his doctoral studies in Philosophy at Notre Dame under Dr. Alvin Plantinga and Dr. Peter van Inwagen in 2005, prior to joining the New Saint Andrews faculty. Dr. Stokes is also interested in martial arts, demonstrating really cool self-defense moves with Dr. Wilson, and boxing. He and wife Christine have four very cute children and home school.

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Selected Scholarly Works and Articles

Dr. Stokes recently was published as part of the Thomas Nelson "Christian Encounter Series," with his book on Isaac Newton

"Van Inwagen and the Quine-Putnam Indispensability Argument," Erkenntnis, 2007, 67(3): 439-453

"Mathematics as a Liberal Art: Recovering the Meaning of Math," Colloquium, Spring 2006 (pdf)

"Quinean Meta-Ontology and Fictionalism," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, June 2005

"Extreme Dualisms," Christian Culture, Andrew Sandlin, ed., November 2004

"Catalytic Combustion as a pollution Prevention Technology to Achieve Ultra-Low Emissions in Power Gnerating Ground-Based Turbine Enginesl," 2001, Hazardous and Industrial Wastes: Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Mid-Atlantic Industrial Waste Conference