Kent Dunnington

Kent Dunnington is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Biola University where he teaches ethics, logic, and the philosophy of addiction. Holding a PhD from Texas A&M and an MTS in theology from Duke University, Dunnington brings rigorous philosophical training to questions of human virtue and vice, particularly addiction and moral psychology.

His first book Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice (2011) offers an interdisciplinary philosophical-theological analysis drawing on Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to develop an alternative to reductionistic models of addiction. His second work Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory (Oxford UP, 2019) continues his exploration of virtue ethics and theological anthropology. Dunnington's work is particularly informed by his experiences teaching in prisons, bringing lived perspective to abstract philosophical questions about human freedom, vice, and redemption.