Christophe Porot
Tiepolo, The Banquet of Cleopatra

Writing

You will find philosophical essays and poems on this page ranging from Academic Journal Publications, Newspaper Columns, Poetry Magazines, and Public Philosophy book chapters.

Peer-reviewed papers & encyclopedia entries

  • 2023“Constructive Comparative Philosophy of Religion: Translations of Christianity and Islam and a Case Study of Ibn Tufayl and Ralph Cudworth.” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. Journal of Philosophical Theological Research.
  • 2016“A Defense of first and second-order theism: The limits of empirical inquiry and the rationality of religious belief.” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
  • 2013“What Might It Take to Get from Donald Davidson's Mature Philosophical Position to Recognize the Possibility, and Even Plausibility, of an Afterlife?” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. In Death and Anti-Death, vol. 11, ed. Charles Tandy. Ria University Press.
  • 2019“Ralph Cudworth.” Wiley Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, co-authored with Charles Taliaferro.

Public philosophy

  • 2025“Equality and crime in Pokemon.” In Pokemon and Philosophy, ed. Nicholas Michaud. Carus Books, Chicago.
  • 2025“Team Plasma was right.. sort of.” In Pokemon and Philosophy, ed. Nicholas Michaud. Carus Books, Chicago.
  • 2024“Bourdain’s taste for freedom.” In Anthony Bourdain and Philosophy, ed. Scott Calef. Carus Books, Chicago.
  • 2023“On being a Werewolf.” Co-authored with Lucie Tardy. In Zevon and Philosophy, ed. John Mackinnon. Carus Books, Chicago.
  • 2017“Extended Fight.” In Captain America vs Iron Man and Philosophy, ed. Nicholas Michaud. Open Court, Chicago.
  • 2017“Living through a Horror Story.” Co-authored with Jacob Browne. In American Horror Story and Philosophy, eds. Richard V. Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene. Open Court, Chicago.
  • 2017“Click Bait for Black Fish.” In Mr. Robot and Philosophy, eds. Richard V. Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene. Open Court, Chicago.
  • 2014“Afraid to Get Your Hands Dirty?” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. In Homeland and Philosophy, ed. Robert Arp. Open Court.
Sandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi

Poetry

  • 2020“Flamingo.” Redline Zine.

Book reviews

  • Forthcoming“Holding Wrongdoers Responsible: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness,” by Jeffrey Blustein (Routledge, 2021). Journal of Moral Philosophy.
  • “Alternative Concepts of God,” eds. Andrei Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa (Oxford University Press, 2016). Religious Studies Review 42.4.
  • “Hidden Divinity,” eds. Eleonore Stump and Adam Green (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Religious Studies Review 43.3.

Essays & articles

Presentations & conferences

  • Theodicy through Apotheosis: From Soul-Making to God-Making

    Maxwell Institute, 2026

  • Imitatio Dei and its Detractors

    GRAMINAIRE 2025, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, March 21, 2025

  • Liberation through Play

    Cambridge University, March 8, 2024

  • Imitatio Dei: an ethics of mysticism

    Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, December 15, 2023

  • Gravity and Grace

    Ways of Knowing Conference, Harvard University, 2016

  • The Commodification of Human Attention

    Workshop on Economic Philosophy (Distributism), Wake Forest University, 2016

  • Rousseau’s Paradox

    St. Olaf College, 2013

  • Newton and Philosophy

    St. Olaf CURI Presentation, 2013

Research & editorial work

  • Visiting Fellow / Visiting Scholar, Maxwell Institute of BYU, Summer 2026
  • Scholar in Residence, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, Cambridge University (research on God, play, and theosis across traditions), 2023–
  • With Charles Taliaferro, contributed to “A Narnian Atonement: Defense of the Ransom Theory” (Cascade Books, 2023)
  • With Douglas Casson (St. Olaf) and Ignacio Silva (Oxford): CURI research award with the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford, 2012
  • Managing Editor, Wiley-Blackwell’s Religious Studies Review: Analytic and Linguistic Philosophy (editions 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3), 2016–2017
  • Edited and proofread: The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Edited: “Philosophy of Religion,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ↗

In the press

Languages: native English, fluent French