Author: Joseph Bankard

Dr Joseph Bankard is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University. His research is focused primarily on the interdisciplinary dialogue taking place between science, religion, and morality. He is the author of several journal articles including “Moral Instincts and the Problem with Reductionism: A Critical Look at the Work of Marc Hauser” (Theology and Science, vol. 9, no. 4, November 2011), “Training Emotion Helps Cultivate Virtue: How Loving-Kindness Meditation Develops Compassion and Increases Helping Behavior” (forthcoming), and “Is Christian Hope a Form of Long Term Economy?: An Argument from the Writings of Albert Camus?” in Gift and Economy: Ethics, Hospitality, and the Market (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). Dr Bankard also serves as the Philosophy Department Chair at Northwest Nazarene University.