Dr. Thomas Hibbs
Board of Advocates
Dr. Thomas Hibbs is the J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy at Baylor, where he is also Dean Emeritus, having served for 16 years as the inaugural Dean of the Honors College. Thomas has a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and served as tutor at Thomas Aquinas College, Full Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, and President of the University of Dallas. At Baylor, Thomas also served as the founding Director of Baylor in Washington, DC, where he organized programming on a range of cultural and policy issues.
Thomas has published more than thirty scholarly articles and seven books, three of which are on Thomas Aquinas and the most recent of which is Wagering on an Ironic God: Pascal on Philosophy and Faith (Baylor University Press, 2017). He has also written two books on philosophy and film. He is working on a book on Jacques Maritain and aesthetics that is under contract with the University of Notre Dame Press. Another book on justice as solidarity, bringing classical conceptions of justice into conversation with contemporary debates, is under contract with Word on Fire.
He has published more than 100 reviews and discussion articles on film, theater, art, and higher education in a variety of venues including First Things, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Atlantis, The Wall Street Journal, and National Review. He currently writes regularly for The Dallas Morning News. Called upon regularly to comment on film and popular culture, Thomas has made more than 100 appearances on radio, including nationally syndicated NPR shows, “The Connection,” “On the Media,” and “All Things Considered.”