He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and specializes in philosophy of religion and political philosophy. He is the author of over 50 articles and book chapters and is the author of God and the Other, co-author of The New Phenomenology, and co-editor of numerous edited volumes including Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life, and Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century. He is the vice-president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, previous president of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, and sits on the executive board of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology. He has been married to Vanessa for 16 years and they have an 8-year-old son named Atticus. Originally from Cleveland, TN, Simmons spends his free time trout fishing and playing the drums.