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Brian Besong is with us today. He's assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio Dominican University,

co-editor of a collection of essays that I spotted entitled Faith and Reason. Philosophers

explain their turn to Catholicism. Welcome, Professor Besong.

Thanks, Mark. Thanks for having me on. First of all, just give us a general description of the book. What's the topic?

Who are the contributors? Things like that.

Yeah, so the Faith and Reason volume, this is a product of my own conversion and Jonathan Fuqua's

conversion. We had run across a large number of both senior and junior

colleagues who had, through independent reasons, come to embrace the Catholic faith.

So we tried to get a collection of them that represented an adequate sample of the profession.

And so we've got figures like Edward Faser, Jay Budazki, Brian Cutter, Neil Judish, Peter Craved, Logan Gage, Rob Coons, Scott

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