Philip Lindholm

Philip Michael Lindholm (born December 10) is an American public servant, singer-songwriter, and academic from Seattle, Washington, United States. He is best known as the author of Latter-day Dissent and for playing the lead role in the BBC's murder mystery Who Murdered Warren Taylor,^[1] presenting ITV1's The Grail Trail: In Pursuit of the Da Vinci Code, creating and researching ITV1's The Muslim Jesus, and as the lead singer-songwriter for Whiskey N' Rye. In 2019, Lindholm gave a TEDx talk entitled "The Secret to a Meaningful Life."^[2]

Philip Lindholm
Philip Lindholm
Born	December 10 Seattle, Washington, United States
Education
Doctoral advisor	George Pattison
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
Main interests	Philosophical theology, expressivism, aesthetics

Biography

Early life and university

Dr. Lindholm grew up just outside Seattle. Lindholm left high school and began attending Green River Community College at the age of 17. After receiving an AA degree, Lindholm went on to achieve high honors from Central Washington University in "Philosophy" and "Philology and Exegesis," and was named State Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship in his senior year. Lindholm was subsequently offered a place at both Harvard and Oxford universities for graduate study, and accepted a full scholarship to the latter.^[3] Lindholm went on to receive three master's degrees, and graduated with a doctorate in philosophical theology from Oxford in 2010. During his graduate study, Lindholm complemented time at Oxford with other institutions, including L'École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2005 and Juilliard in New York in 2007.^[4]

Music

After Lindholm played small singer/songwriter gigs in England and Paris, he went on to form band Whiskey N' Rye, which released two albums.^[5]

Film

Lindholm studied acting under Amy Werba and Charles Weinstein in Paris in 2005. His debut was in the lead role of the BBC's murder mystery "Who Murdered Warren Taylor" in 2005, and he then appeared in a series of independent films in London, including "Pieces," where he met filmmaker Sean Corbett and joined the sponsoring production company, 24/30 Cinema.^[6] Subsequently, while Lindholm lived in Queens, NY between 2006 and 2007, he started working with documentarian Albert Maysles,^[7] which segued into further projects with ITV and BBC in 2008-9 and an acting role in Larry Holden's independent film "All Sun and Little White Flowers" that summer. While at ITV, Lindholm created and helped produce the documentary The Muslim Jesus, which was released to wide acclaim.^[8]

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2010	All Sun and Little White Flowers	"Deputy Barnes"	Independent Feature Film. Male Actor. Director Larry Holden
2009	History of Christianity	Assistant Producer	BBC Documentary Series
2008	The Funny Thing About Ramadan	Assistant Producer	BBC1 Documentary Film
2008	Pieces	Will	Independent Feature Film. Male Lead Actor
2007	The Muslim Jesus	Creator/Specialist Researcher	ITV1 Documentary Film
2005	In Pursuit of The Da Vinci Code	Presenter (himself)	ITV1 Documentary Film
2005	Who Murdered Warren Taylor	Warren Taylor	BBC Murder Mystery. Male Lead Actor

Academics

Lindholm is a Kierkegaard scholar^[9] and former lecturer in comparative religion at the universities of Washington and Oxford who speaks around the world on philosophical and theological topics.^{[10][11][12][13][14]} His recent books include Latter-day Dissent, which analyzes the nature and extent of intellectual freedom and disciplinary action in the LDS Church, and Voyeur: Notes of Disquiet, a collection of aphorisms.

Selected works

• Voyeur: Notes of Disquiet (2012) ISBN 978-0615563749^[15]
• Latter-day Dissent (2011) ISBN 1-58958-128-8^[16]
• Metallica and Philosophy" chapter: "The Struggle Within: Hetfield, Kierkegaard, and the Pursuit of Authenticity (2007) ISBN 1-4051-6348-8^[17]
• Poker and Philosophy" chapter: "Jewish Philosophy Wins the Pot: How Stu Ungar and Emmanuel Levinas Coralled the Texans (2006) ISBN 0-8126-9594-1^[18]