The academic website of the philosopher David McPherson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University; author of The Virtues of Limits (Oxford, 2022) and Virtue and Meaning: A …

Virtue and Meaning, David McPherson contends that the dominant approach still embraces an overly disenchanted view. In a wide-ranging discussion, McPherson argues for a more fully re …

Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches, ed. David McPherson (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 63-83. [This is a significantly expanded version of the essay that

“David McPherson enables us to see the deep human need for limits, and how it runs through our life. This is a book of great importance in the face of contemporary understandings of ethics …

Research Statement The central guiding question of my research is: “What is it to live well as human beings within the conditions in which we find ourselves?” These conditions include the …

In a wide-ranging discussion, McPherson argues for a more fully re-enchanted perspective that gives better recognition to the meanings by which we live and after which we seek, and to the …

Teaching Philosophy My teaching is guided by the ancient conception of philosophy as a love of wisdom, which gives rise to a distinctive way of life.

Podcast: "Virtue and Meaning - An Interview with David McPherson" (on Ethical Theory Review with Brad Cokelet) Podcast: "Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia" (on Sacred & …

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In this book I articulate, explore, and respond to the problem of spiritual alienation, which is the state of being estranged from the place of our spiritual fulfillment. In doing so, I contribute...