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Bradley Monton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado, and works in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science (especially physics), probabilistic epistemology, and philosophy of time.

In philosophy of time, he is sympathetic presentism, the doctrine that only presently existing things exist, and has written a few papers related to that doctrine. In philosophy of religion, his papers include: “Mixed Strategies Can't Evade Pascal's Wager" and "Against Multiverse Theodicies." His book is titled Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. In philosophy of physics, a recent research project ("Prolegomena to Any Future Physics-Based Metaphysics") critiques some metaphysicans who appeal to physics to attempt to establish metaphysical conclusions.

In probabilistic epistemology, he is interested in developing a probability theory which can handle indexical propositions (self-locating beliefs), an area where Bayesian epistemology breaks down. He is also interested in various issues involving reasoning with infinite possibility spaces.