Aaron Graham
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religion, College of Liberal Arts, Affiliated Faculty of Law, School of Law
BIO
Dr. Aaron Graham is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Law Faculty. Before coming to philosophy, he was a practicing attorney, and the law is still his primary area of theoretical interest. Dr. Graham teaches courses in the Department of Philosophy and Religion on the philosophy of law and legal reasoning, and I also teach a legal philosophy seminar at the law school. His research to this point has focused on statutory interpretation and the “Hart-Dworkin debate” in Anglo-American legal philosophy, but he has lately begun thinking more about the nature of obligation, particularly in connection with the question of political obligation, that is, whether there is a moral obligation to obey the law (at least in reasonably just societies).
WHY CLI?
I am interested in the distinctions and interrelationships among civic, moral, and intellectual virtues, e.g.: Are civic virtues best understood as a particular subset of moral virtues, or are they distinct? And how should we understand the interaction of civic and moral virtues with intellectual virtues in practical contexts?