About
Mark Boespflug serves as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy within the School of Arts and Sciences at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. He joined the institution in 2021 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder under Robert Pasnau, with prior postdoctoral work at the University of Otago's Baier Chair in Early Modern Philosophy.
His research centers on epistemology and its historical development, examining human rationality in scientific and religious contexts, voluntary belief control, and social dimensions of epistemic practices. Key publications appear in Synthese, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with historical and contemporary philosophical problems.
Currently leading a John Templeton Foundation-funded project on doxastic voluntarism, he coauthored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the topic and delivered the 2022 Byron I. Bitar Memorial Lectures at Geneva College. His academic service includes peer review for top philosophy journals and presentations at international venues including the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress.
