Dr Ian Logan

Dr Ian Logan has been a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall since 2004. He was also a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty from 2012 to 2024. He studied at the Universities of Leeds and Munich (LMU), where his research focused on Anselm of Canterbury’s proof of God in the Proslogion and the development of transcendental anthropology in Karl Rahner’s early writings.

His focus is currently on two projects: ‘The origins, nature and application of dialectic in Anselm’s writings’ and ‘Prudential judgement and the logic of spiritual discernment’.

Select Publications:

Reading Anselm’s Proslogion: The History of Anselm’s Argument and its Significance Today (Ashgate 2009; Routledge 2016);
Saint Anselm of Canterbury and his Legacy (PIMS 2012), co-editor (with Giles Gasper);
Anselm of Canterbury, Nature Order and the Divine (Brill 2025), co-editor (with Alastair R.E. Forbes);
‘Denying the Divine: Anselm and atheism’ in Anselm of Canterbury: Nature, Order and the Divine, pp. 167-192;
‘Christian Europe’ in S. Bullivant & M. Ruse (edd.), The Cambridge History of Atheism, Volume 1, Part II: Atheisms in History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021, pp. 139-158;
‘Anselm’s Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy’ in G. Cipollone (ed.), Anselmo e la “nuova” Europa, Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University 2014, pp. 95-112;
‘Was Karl Rahner an anonymous Anselmian?’ in Saint Anselm of Canterbury and his Legacy, pp. 279-298;
‘“Whoever understands this”: on translating the Proslogion’ in New Blackfriars, 89 (2008) 560-574;
‘Whatever happened to Kant’s ontological argument?’ in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 72 (2007) 346-363;
‘Ms. Bodley 271: Establishing the Anselmian Canon?’ in The Saint Anselm Journal, 2.1 (Fall 2004) 67-80.

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