Dr. David A. Talcott

Graduate Dean

Fellow of Philosophy                                                                    

New Saint Andrews College                                                          

405 S. Main St., Moscow, ID  83843                                                                     

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 2012.

Minor Concentration: Ancient Studies

B.A. Philosophy, Hillsdale College, Magna Cum Laude, Dept. & College Honors, May 2003.

 Areas of Specialization

Ancient Philosophy

 Areas of Competence

Ethics, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

 Dissertation

      “Religion and Metaphysics in Plato’s Euthyphro”

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Michael Morgan (Chair), Dr. Paul Vincent Spade,

Dr. Timothy O’Connor, Dr. Timothy Long (Classical Studies).      

Academic Appointments

Graduate Dean (2023-present), New St. Andrew’s College, Moscow, ID

Fellow of Philosophy (2023-present), New St. Andrew’s College, Moscow, ID

Associate Professor of Philosophy (2020-2023), The King’s College, New York, NY

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2012-2020), The King’s College, New York, NY

Lecturer in Philosophy (2011-2012), The King’s College, New York, NY

Honors and Awards

·       New St. Andrews College Lectureship 2021-2022

·       Elected Member of the Academy of Philosophy & Letters

 Monographs

·       Plato, P&R Publishing, Great Thinkers Series, November 2023.

 Works in Progress

·       Aristotle, P&R Publishing, Great Thinker’s Series, in proposal stage

Articles and Reviews

·       “The Nature of the Soul and Evangelism, Eikon: A Journal of Biblical Anthropology, Fall 2025.

·       “An Apology for Reformed Natural Law,” Fight Laugh Feast magazine, Summer 2025.

·       Book Review, Paul Rahe, Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War in The University Bookman, June 2025

·       “The New ‘Conservative’ Gender Egalitarianism: A Critique of Abigail Favale’s The Genesis of Gender and Nancy Pearcey’s The Toxic War on Masculinity,” Eikon: A Journal of Biblical Anthropology, Fall 2024

·       Book Review, Mark Regnerus, The Future of Christian Marriage in Eikon: A Journal of Biblical Anthropology, Fall 2022

·       Book review, Paul Vitz, ed.,The Complementarity of Women and Men: Philosophy, Theology, Psychology & Art, in Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology, Spring 2022. 

·       “The Old Script is Gone: On a Pathway to Maturity for a Generation Without a Script,” Permanent Things: The Annual Journal from the Center for Public Theology, 1.2, 2020.

·       “Building a Culture of Life,” Human Life Review, Fall 2019. 

·       Book Review, Stephen Clark, Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in the Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences in Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology, June 2019.

·       “Pro-Life Welfare is a Bad Idea,” Public Discourse, April 7, 2019.

·       “On Having a Large Family in an Age of Childlessness,” Permanent Things: The Annual Journal from the Center for Public Theology, 1.1, 2019.

·       Book Review, “Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education,” Religious Studies Review, December 2018, 485-486.

·       “Pragmatism and Principle: John Calvin and Female Government,” Ad Fontes, vol. 5, Jan. 2017.

·       Occasional Contributor, First Things “First Thoughts” blog. 2012-2016.

·       “Socratic Christian Philosophy,” Common Ground Journal, Special Edition on Philosophy of Religion, July 2015. http://www.commongroundjournal.org/volnum/v12n02.pdf

·       Book Review, Alvin Plantinga, “Science and Religion: Where the Conflict Really Lies,” Comment Magazine, online, February 08, 2012.

Academic Presentations and Invited Talks

 ·       Epiphany Lectures: Trinity Reformed Church, Moscow, ID, January 2026.

·       “Defending Correspondence: A Critique of Dru Johnson’s Account of Truth in Biblical Philosophy,” Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 2025

·       “Aristotle on Form and Ethical Formation,” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, June 2025.

·       “The Platonism of Aristotle: On the Continuity of Ethics and Politics from Plato to Aristotle,” Hillsdale College, September 2024.

·       “Reason in Plato’s Laws,” Doctoral Seminar, Hillsdale College van Andel School of Statesmanship, September 2024.

·       “Plato the Realist,” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, June 2024.

·       “Plato: A Christian Appraisal,” New St. Andrews College, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

·       “The American Family: Breakdown and Recovery,” Academy of Philosophy and Letters, June 2021.

·       “Sexuality on Christian College Campuses,” TruthXChange annual conference, January 2020.

·       “Practical Apologetics,” Messiah’s Reformed Fellowship (URC), New York, NY, Four Sessions, June 2019.

·       “Waking Up: Ministry When There’s no More Normal,” PCA General Assembly Pre-conference, June 2018.

·       “Resolving the Puzzle of Euthyphro 10a-10c,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference, Fordham University, October 2017.

·       “Men and Women: Do they have Different Essences?” Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 2015.

·       “Comment on Doug Reed’s ‘Deficient Virtue in the Phaedo’,” New England Consortium for Ancient Philosophy, Phaedo Workshop, Harvard University, October 2015

·        “The Structure of Euthyphro 9c-11b: An Assessment of Recent Proposals,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference, Fordham University, October 2015.

·        “Plato’s Euthyphro: An Ingressive Reading,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference, Fordham University, October 2014.

·       “Socratic Christian Philosophy,” Central Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Chicago, March 2014.

·       “On God as Cause of the Truth Values of Counterfactuals,” Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Wake Forest University, March 2010.

·       “Causation in Euthyphro 9e-10e”, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, March 2010.

·       “ ‘The Euthyphro Problem’ and the Euthyphro,” Hillsdale College, April 2008.

·       “Did Plato Know About the Euthyphro Problem?” Graduate Student Colloquium, Indiana University, November 2007.

·       “Putnam and the Brain-in-a-Vat Hypothesis,” International Symposium on Skepticism in Contemporary Philosophy. Université de Sherbrooke, October 2003.

·       “Another Look into Putnam’s Brains.” Mid-South Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2003.

 Selected Op-Eds

·       “Hey Republicans, Stop Dissing Philosophy,” USA Today, online, Nov. 14, 2015.

·       “Minimum Wage Hike is Poor Policy, ethics,” co-authored with Jared Pincin, Newark Star-Herald, online, March 08, 2013.

Teaching Experience

      New Saint Andrew’s College, Moscow, ID (2023-Present)

             History of Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024,

Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)

            The Presocratic Philosophers (Fall 2023)

            Plato’s Laches, Symposium, and Laws (Fall 2023)

            Plato’s Republic (Spring 2025, Fall 2025)

            Plato’s Laws (Spring 2025)

            Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Fall 2025)

            Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Sexual Ethics (Spring 2024, Fall 2025)

            Logic in the Western Tradition (Spring 2024, Summer 2024)

            Bioethics (Spring 2026)

            Theories of Truth (Fall 2025)

      The King’s College, New York, NY, (2011-2023)

Foundations of Philosophy (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)

Ethics (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016,

Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2023)

Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall

2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Modern Philosophy (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Plato (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018)

Topics in Ancient Philosophy (Spring 2020, Spring 2022)

Philosophy of Religion (Spring 2012)

            Philosophy of Human Sexuality (Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2019,

Spring 2021, Spring 2023)

            Research Writing (Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2021)

 Bethlehem College & Seminary, Minneapolis, MN, Guest Instructor (January 2015)

            Theological Ethics (January 2015)

 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Teaching Assistant, (2003-2011)

 As Sole Instructor:

                        Ancient Greek Philosophy (Fall 2008)

Introduction to Philosophy (Summer 2005, Summer 2009, Spring 2011)

Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2006, Spring 2007)

Thinking and Reasoning (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)

 As Graduate Assistant or Grader:

Thinking and Reasoning (Dr. Leah Savion, Spring 2010, Fall 2010)

Epistemology (Dr. Fred Schmitt, Spring 2009)

                        Symbolic Logic (Dr. Mark Kaplan, Spring 2008)    

Ancient Greek Philosophy (Dr. Michael Morgan, Fall 2004, Fall 2007)

The Examined Life (Dr. Dennis Senchuk, Spring 2005)

Who am I? Race, Gender, and Identity (Dr. Dennis Senchuk, Fall 2009)

Introduction to Philosophy (Mr. Darren Abramsen, Spring 2004)

Introduction to Philosophy (Dr. Adam Leite, Fall 2003)

Online Adjunct Instructor: Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana (2004-2011)

 Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2004-2011), Philosophy of Religion (Spring 2008-2011),

Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2010-2011), Logical Reasoning (Fall 2009),

Introduction to American Religion (Fall 2009)

 Media Appearances

Panelist, “Should Buying Sex be a Crime?” PBS Point Taken, May 31, 2016.

Guest, Undefined Terms Podcast, “Medical Judgment (Part I),” April 2, 2019.

Professional Service

Editorial Board Member and Reviewer, Christian Higher Education, 2023-present.

Graduate Dean, New St. Andrew’s College, 2023-present.

Chair, Philosophy Hiring Committee, New Saint Andrew’s College, 2024-2025.

Chair, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Department, The King’s College, Fall 2022.

Coordinator, Philosophy Major, The King’s College, 2019-2022

Member, Provost Search Committee, The King’s College, 2021-2022

Chair, Ethics Hiring Committee, The King’s College, 2012-2013.

Co-Chair, History of Philosophy Hiring Committee, The King’s College, 2011-2012.

Reviewer, Routledge Publishing, 2019.

Member, Academic Affairs Committee, The King’s College, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2018-2019.

Member, Curriculum Committee, The King’s College, 2011-2012, 2015-2016, 2016-2017,

2017-2018

Member, First Year Student Experience Committee, The King’s College, 2019-2020.

Member, Student Affairs Committee, The King’s College, 2014-2015, 2020-2021, 2021-2022,

2022-2023.

Member, Namesake Review Committee, The King’s College, 2019-2020.

Graduate Student Representative, Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy,

            Indiana University, Bloomington, 2006-2007.

Languages

Classical Greek

Professional Memberships

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Evangelical Philosophical Society

Academy for Philosophy and Letters

Public Office

Member, Board of Education, Town of Boonton, NJ. (2014-2016)    

Religious Service History

The Presbyterian Church in America 

West Hudson Presbytery

Moderator of Presbytery, 2021-2022 (Eight presbytery meetings total)

Presbytery Administrative Committee, 2021-2022.

General Assembly Overtures Committee of Commissioners 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022.

General Assembly Nominating Committee of Commissioners, 2017, 2023.

Presbytery Missions Committee, 2019-2023.

Presbytery RUF Committee, 2022-2023.

Presbytery ad hoc Judicial Commission, 2017.

 Covenant Presbyterian Church of Millburn and Short Hills (PCA)

Ruling Elder, 2016-2023

Pulpit Committee, 2020-2021.

Commissioner to Presbytery, 2016-2023.

 Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches

 King’s Cross Church, Moscow, ID

(In Progress) Elder Candidacy