Dean Zimmerman

Dean Zimmerman is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, where he directs the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion. He earned his Ph.D. from Brown University and specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Zimmerman organizes the biennial Metaphysical Mayhem workshop for graduate students and co-organizes the St. Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion.

His research explores:

• Metaphysics: Time (presentism, A-theory), personal identity, material constitution, and dualism.
• Philosophy of Religion: Divine foreknowledge, the compatibility of materialism with resurrection, and theological anthropology.
• Cross-disciplinary work: Integrating physics, theology, and mind-body studies into metaphysical frameworks.

Zimmerman has edited over a dozen books, including nine volumes of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics and the Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. He is currently writing a book on philosophy of religion for Princeton University Press.