He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University's Department of Philosophy (1983, 1986). He has published articles on the topics of the philosophy of religion, rights theory, environmental ethics, moral skepticism, David Hume, and Thomas Aquinas. He has created several World Wide Web sites in philosophy, including the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Fieser, James is the author of 'Scriptures of the World's Religions', published 2007 under ISBN 9780073386652 and ISBN 0073386650.