James M. McLachlan

James McLachlan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University. He is past co-founder and co-chair of the Mormon Studies Group at the American Academy of Religion and past president of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology. He was the organizer of the Personalist Seminar. He has assisted as co-chair of the Levinas Philosophy Summer Seminars in Vilnius, Buffalo, Berkeley, and Rome and is co-director of the NEH Summer Seminar on Levinas at the University at Buffalo in summer 2017 and 2022. His recent publications have dealt with concepts of hell in existentialism; Satan and demonic evil in Boehme, Schelling, and Dostoevsky; and the problem of evil in Mormonism. He is currently working on a study of Mormonism and Process Theology and a study of the early Mormon philosopher William H. Chamberlin.