Draft talk:Khaldoun Sweis

Khaldoun Aziz Sweis, is a Christian philosopher and apologist. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Olive Harvey College. He is a tutor at Oxford University in Oxford, England.

Biography
Sweis specializes in Apologetics, Christian Thought, Philosophy of religion, and Philosophy of mind and is well known for his book Debating Christian Theism ,published by Oxford University Press and co-edited with philosophers J.P. Moreland and Chad V. Meister. Sweis earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Eastern Illinois University and a Masters in Philosophy from Trinity National University. He received his Ph.D from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His dissertation was Philosophy of the mind and cognitive science.

Career
Sweis formerly served as Chair and currently serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Olive Harvey College in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a tutor in philosophy at Oxford University in England ,. Sweis has been teaching Philosophy for over ten years, as well as speaking at conferences nationally and abroad in England, Romania, Australia, and Hong Kong. He is the founder of the Socratic Project, which hosts debates and discussions on critical issues and addresses the existential questions of life.

Sweis has been featured in Christianity Today , as well as the Forum of Christian Leaders. .

Organizational Affiliations
Sweis is a member of the American Philosophical Association, Evangelical Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers

Publications

 * Killing God: Addressing the Seven Most Common Objections from the New Atheist
 * Debating Christian Theism (co-editor with J.P.Moreland and Chad Meister)
 * Christian Apologetics: An anthology of primary sources
 * Think : A Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy
 *  Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics
 *  Morality: Absolute not relative
 *  The Paradoxes of Naturalism
 *  Consciousness: What a Conversation from leading thinkers would sound like
 *  Truth, Tolerance and Romance, originally in the Scribe 1998
 *  Question of Icons in Eastern Orthodoxy : Where is the line drawn between worship and veneration?