Dr. Max Baker Hytch

Biography

Max Baker-Hytch is a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. His research predominantly focuses on the intersection of philosophy and religion, specifically in epistemology. He is the author of the forthcoming book 'The God Problem: Evidential Ambiguity' with Cambridge University Press, which addresses various themes in the field. His published work includes significant contributions on the problem of divine hiddenness and the role of natural theology in religious epistemology, exploring the epistemological implications of discoveries related to the causal origins of religious beliefs. Baker-Hytch completed his DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford University in 2014 and has since held postdoctoral research fellowships at Oxford as part of the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology project and at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion. His core research interests are in Analytic Philosophy of Religion, theories of knowledge, epistemic rationality, and the nature of faith.

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