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Phil
Enns

Dekanė

From: Kanada

At LCC Since: 2026

Key Areas

  • Epistemology, Religion and Democracy, and Philosophy of Language

Bio

Before joining LCC, Phil taught in Nigeria, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and most recently online to underserved students in Myanmar. He is an energetic proponent of the liberal arts and multicultural / international education. For seven years Phil was Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at Nazarbayev University where he oversaw all academics in the School of Sciences and Humanities as well as the university's core curriculum.

Phil received his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the University of Toronto. His specialty is in Epistemology, Religion and Democracy, and Philosophy of Language with research focused on epistemological issues surrounding the role of beliefs and reasons in public life. He has also published in the area of medieval Islamic philosophy, focusing on the works of al Farabi, Ibn Sina, and al Ghazali.

Publications

The Importance of This and That: Reflections on Context in Early Islamic Philosophy

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 49 (1), 65-85, 2011.

Habermas, Democracy and Religious Reasons.

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Heythrop journal 51 (4), 582, 2010.

Reason and revelation: Kant and the problem of authority

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

International journal for philosophy of religion 62 (2), 103-114, 2007.

To What Does the Bible Refer? On Metaphor and Analogy

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Conrad Grebel Review 23 (3), 63, 2005.

The Challenge of Modernity: Shi’ah Muslim-Mennonite Christian Dialogue

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Other author(s): A.J. Reimer, H. Rahimpour, Y. Daneshvar, H. Parsania, D.W. Shenk...

The Conrad Grebel Review 21, 2003.

The Limits of Modernity

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Conrad Grebel Review 21 (3), 39-53, 2003.

Issues in the Future of Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholarship

LCC author(s): Phil Enns

Other author(s): J. Bergen, S. Schroeder, B. Froese, M.A. Penner, P. Martens, ...

The Conrad Grebel Review, 21-2, 2003.