Dr. Kevin Graham

Associate Professor of Philosophy

College of Arts & Sciences

Creighton University

 

 Teaching Responsibilities

PHL 107 Critical & Historical Introduction to Philosophy

PHL 250 Philosophical Foundations for Ethical Understanding

PHL 312 Symbolic Logic

PHL 320 God & Persons: Philosophical Reflections

PHL 321 Epistemology

PHL 348 Philosophy of Feminism

PHL 358 Social & Political Philosophy

 

 Research Interests

Social & Political Philosophy

Philosophy of Race

Philosophy of Feminism

Epistemology

 

 Recent Publications

"The Ideal of Objectivity in Political Dialogue," Social Epistemology (forthcoming).

"Autonomy, Individualism, and Social Justice," Journal of Value Inquiry 36, no. 1 (2002), pp. 43-57.

"After the Buses Stop Running: Distributive Justice or Dialogue," in Race, Social Identity, and Human Dignity: Social Philosophy Today, Volume 16, ed. C. Hughes (Charlottesville, Va.: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2002), pp. 55-76.

"Review Essay: Race and the Limits of Liberalism," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32, no. 2 (June 2002), pp. 219-39.

"Racism and the Limits of Distributive Justice," Public Affairs Quarterly 15, no. 3 (July 2001), pp. 271-89.

"Participatory Democracy in an Age of Global Capitalism," in The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures, ed. S. Martinot, with J. James. In the series Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 2 (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001), pp. 155-68.

"The Political Significance of Social Identity: A Critique of Rawls's Theory of Agency," Social Theory and Practice 26, no. 2 (Sept. 2000), pp. 201-22.

 

  Professional Association Memberships

American Philosophical Association

North American Society for Social Philosophy

Radical Philosophy Association

American Association of University Professors

 

 Service Responsibilities

Chair, Academic Policy Committee, Creighton College of Arts & Sciences

Elected Member, Executive Committee, Creighton College of Arts & Sciences

President, Creighton University Chapter, American Association of University Professors

Ex-officio Member, Executive Committee, Nebraska Conference of the American Association of University Professors

Program Committee Co-Chair, North American Society for Social Philosophy Sessions at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association

Ex-officio Member, Executive Committee, North American Society for Social Philosophy

 

 Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1996

M.A. in Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1991

B.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John's College (Maryland), 1990

 

 Contact Information

Department of Philosophy
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE
USA 68178-0301
(402) 280-1219 (phone)
(402) 280-3359 (fax)

kgraham@creighton.edu (email)

 

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