Welcome

I want to beg you as much as I can . . . to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves . . . Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, (Norton, 1954, pp 18-19)

Professional Activities

• Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
• Director of TeachPhilosophy101.org (a web-based
      resource for instructors of Introduction to Philosophy
      courses)
• Senior Research Fellow, Public Agenda
• Board of Directors, Wenner-Gren Foundation for
      Anthropological Research
• National Advisory Board, National Survey of Student
      Engagement (NSSE)
• Member, Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy,
      American Philosophical Association