Dallas Willard is Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1965 and where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982 to 1985. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1960-1965) and has held visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado (1984).

His undergraduate studies were at William Jewell College, Tennessee Temple College (B.A., 1956, Psychology) and Baylor University (B.A., 1957, Philosophy and Religion); and his graduate education was at Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1964: major in Philosophy, minor in the History of Science).

His philosophical publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of mind and of logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, including extensive translations of Husserl's early writings from German into English. His Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, a study of Husserl's early philosophy, appeared in 1984.

He also lectures and publishes in religion. The Divine Conspiracy was published in 1998 and selected as Christianity Today's "Book of the Year" for 1999. The Spirit of the Disciplines appeared in 1988, and Hearing God (1999) first appeared as In Search of Guidance in 1984.

He has served on the boards of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and is a member of numerous evaluation committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. His academic honors include the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society. (More info at his website.)

In 1980 Randy joined InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a campus staff member at the University of California at Santa Cruz. While on staff he completed a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Seminary. In 1990 he was asked by InterVarsity to serve as the founding national director of InterVarsity's graduate-student ministry. Randy left InterVarsity when he was called back to Berkeley to become the executive director of Westminster House and Presbyterian campus pastor in 1996.

Randy is a member of the Committee on Preparation for Ministry of the Presbytery of San Francisco and serves on the Board of Directors for John Stott Ministries.