- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 1992)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Trinity College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1985)
- Philosophy of Religion
- Cosmology
- History of early modern Philosophy
- ‘Mere addition and the best of all possible worlds’, Religious Studies
- ‘Cosmological fecundity’, Inquiry
- ‘Incommensurability and the best of all possible worlds’, The Monist
- ‘West or best? Sufficient reason in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence’, Studia Leibnitiana
- ‘Satisfied pigs and dissatisfied philosophers: Schlesinger on the problem of evil’, Philosophical Investigations
- Problems of Evil (Fall 2008)
- The Best of All Possible Worlds (Fall 2007)
- The Design Argument (Spring 2006)
- The Problem of Evil (Spring 2005)
- Nothing (Spring 2004)