Dr. John Shook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State
University in Maryland, and teaches for the Graduate Liberal Studies
programs at Georgetown University. He has published twenty books and
over one hundred journal articles and chapters. His research areas are
American intellectual history, the history of freethought and secular
thought, modern humanism and cosmopolitanism, philosophical
naturalism, political secularism, humanist ethics, neuroethics, and
philosophy of religion.

Since 2006 Shook has been Director of
Education and Research and Senior Research Fellow for the Center for
Inquiry; the Education Coordinator for the American Humanist
Association; a Co-Mentor with the Humanist Institute, and President of
the Society of Humanist Philosophers.

Shook is the editor of the journals Secular Studies and Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, and
he has published articles in Free Inquiry and The Humanist, two
leading magazines of secular and humanist thought. His books include
The God Debates: A 21st Century Guide for Atheists, Believers, and
Everyone in Between (2010), the Oxford Handbook of Secularism
(co-edited with Phil Zuckerman 2017), Systematic Atheology (2018), and
Pragmatism (2023). Shook is also an editor of three philosophy
journals: Contemporary Pragmatism, Essays in the Philosophy of
Humanism, and Secular Studies.