Researcher Profile

Doctor N. N. (Nick) Trakakis

Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, School of Philosophy

Areas of expertise: Philosophy of religion; history of philosophy; metaphilosophy; philosophy and literature.

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full 

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2463-7068

Phone: +61 03 9953 3263

Email: nick.trakakis@acu.edu.au

Location: Melbourne Campus ACU

N.N. (Nick) Trakakis received his PhD in philosophy from Monash University, in 2011 he came on board at ACU. His publications in the philosophy of religion include The God Beyond Belief (Springer, 2007) and The End of Philosophy of Religion (Continuum, 2008). He has also edited The Problem of Evil: Eight Views in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2018), and jointly edited, with Graham Oppy, the five-volume History of Western Philosophy of Religion (Acumen, 2009) and the four-volume Interreligious Philosophical Dialogues (Routledge, 2018). Alongside philosophy, he writes, edits and translates poetry. His translation of Tasos Leivaditis’ Autumn Manuscripts (Smokestack Books, 2020) was joint winner of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize.

Select Publications:

• The God Beyond Belief: In Defence of William Rowe’s Evidential Argument from Evil (Dordrecht: Springer Publishing, 2007).
• The End of Philosophy of Religion (London: Continuum, 2008).
• “Anti-theodicy,” in Chad Meister and Paul K. Moser (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp.124-43.
• “Philosophy and Religious Commitment,” Sophia, vol. 56, 2017, pp.605-30.
• “Slow Philosophy,” The Heythrop Journal, vol. 59, 2018, pp.221-39.
• “How To Be An Agnostic,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 13, no. 2, 2021, pp.179-194.

Projects: 

• Anti-theodicy, An investigation of anti-theodicy and its metaphilosophical and existential implications.

Appointments and affiliations: 

• 2006-2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame (USA)
• 2014: William Paton Visiting Fellowship in Global Philosophy of Religion, John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham