Our Faculty

“In the ultimate depths of one’s being, one knows nothing more surely than that one’s knowledge, that is, what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been traveled…”— Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith (New York: Crossroad: 1982), 22–23

“The phenomenologist lives in the paradox of having to look upon the obvious as questionable.”— Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences

“You can as it were restore an old style in a new language; perform it afresh so to speak in a manner that suits our times. In doing so you only reproduce…”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 1947

“There is no short-term wisdom.”— Léon Krier

“The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it.”— Parker Palmer

Works on how competing accounts of human rationality shape the way public policy is made and justified, across social ontology, democracy and plurality, and the history of political thought.

Reads Emmanuel Levinas on the ethical structure of discourse, and writes on philosophical anthropology, Quaker thought, and what faithfulness to the truth asks of us in a post-truth era.