Carl Gillett

Illinois Wesleyan’s Gillett Wins Fellowship from Notre Dame

April 25, 2003

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Carl Gillett, associate professor of philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan University, has won a post-doctoral fellowship from the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame for the 2003-2004 academic year.

Gillett is one of two winners of the prestigious $30,000 fellowships and will spend his sabbatical leave from Illinois Wesleyan in residence at Notre Dame.

A member of Illinois Wesleyan’s faculty since 1996, Gillett is pursuing research on "physicalism," the thesis that everything is composed by the entities of fundamental physics.

Earlier this year he was one of 35 scholars from throughout the world selected to participate in the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity this summer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Gillett graduated from Cambridge University in 1989 and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is co-editor of the 2001 volume, Physicalism and its Discontents, published by Cambridge University Press.

The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame was established in the fall of 1976 in order to promote, support and disseminate scholarly work in philosophy of religion.