Todd Buras is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Baylor University. His PhD was awarded by Yale University in 2004. His primary area of research and publication is 17th Century Scottish Philosophy and related topics in contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. In recent years, he has been involved in the development of curricula for teaching ethics and philosophy at the high school level; his work on these projects has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.