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Griffin researches the history of 20th-century philosophy and its import for substantive questions in epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of religion. His central research focus is the critical interpretation of the pragmatist tradition and the development of a realist, non-relativistic epistemology grounded in an appeal to practical reasons. Beyond the pragmatist fold, he is interested in 20th-century figures like Arendt, Levinas and Iris Murdoch, and explores the implications of their work on such topics as the value of truth, the objectivity of ethics, the justification of love and hope, and the centrality of interpersonal relations for our thought and agency.

Griffin鈥檚 暗网TV courses include Cultural Heritage I and Modern Philosophy. Before joining Hope in 2022, at the University of Toronto and Wheaton College he taught courses on a broad range of topics including epistemology and metaphysics, the philosophy of emotions, ethics, social and cultural theory, literature and philosophy, Continental philosophy, early analytic philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 

• History of 20th-century philosophy (analytic, Continental and pragmatist)
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of emotions
• History of Western philosophy generally

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., philosophy, University of Toronto, 2022
• M.A., philosophy, Northern Illinois University, 2014
• B.A., philosophy and Bible/theology, Wheaton College (IL), 2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• 鈥淐onstitution, Causation, and the Final Opinion: A Puzzle in Peirce鈥檚 Illustrations,鈥� History of Philosophy Quarterly, forthcoming
• 鈥淪ellars鈥檚 Core Critique of C.I. Lewis: Against the Equation of Aboutness and Givenness,鈥� Archiv f眉r Geschichte der Philosophie, 2022
• 鈥淚nferentialism, Modal Anti-Realism, and the Problem of Affection,鈥� in Reading Kant with Sellars (Routledge), forthcoming
• 鈥淲hat Makes the 鈥楲oving Gaze鈥� Loving?,鈥� presentation at Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-West Division meeting, 2022
• 鈥淧erceptual Justification and the Demands of Effective Agency,鈥� presentation at European Pragmatism Conference, 2022
• 鈥淗annah Arendt, Human Rights, and the Priority of Community,鈥� presentation at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, 2021
• 鈥淐.I. Lewis Was a Foundationalist After All,鈥� History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2020
• 鈥淟evinas on the Practical Value of the Concept of Truth,鈥� presentation at North American Levinas Society meeting, 2020
• 鈥淧eirce鈥檚 Early Anti-Realism about the External World,鈥� presentation at American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting, 2020
• 鈥淪ellars鈥� Metaethical Quasi-Realism,鈥� Synthese, 2018 (print 2020)
• 鈥淧rospects for an Objective Pragmatism: Frank Ramsey on Truth, Meaning and Justification,鈥� in Pragmatism and Objectivity (Routledge), 2017
• 鈥淭wo Sorts of Self-Creation: On Galen Strawson鈥檚 鈥楤asic Argument,鈥欌�� Lyceum, 2013

OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE

Griffin enjoys Golden Age detective novels, deep-roster contract league fantasy football and getting lost in the Sanctuary Woods Preserve, from which he is fortunate to live directly across the street. His favorite music genres are melodic punk, second-wave emo, Gothenburg metal and, above all, shoegaze. He is married to Brittani, and his kiddos are Juniper and Evangeline. He and Juni can frequently be found binging episodes of Scooby-Doo. (Or, more often 鈥� albeit slightly less enjoyably, in his opinion鈥� watching the same episode on repeat.)