Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1986
Christopher B. Kulp is the author of The End of Epistemology (1992), and the editor of Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology (1997). His current research centers on metaethics and moral epistemology, with a special emphasis on moral intuitionism and moral metaphysics. His recent book, Knowing Moral Truth: A Theory of Metaethics and Moral Knowledge (2017), is the first in a projected quadrilogy on metaethics and moral epistemology. It argues that (i) there are moral truths and moral facts independent of what any society or any individual judges to be the case; and (ii) we have genuine knowledge of many of them. His latest book, Metaphysics of Morality (2019) is an inquiry into the metaphysical foundations of morality, and develops a realist theory of moral truth, moral facts, and moral properties. He has written, and is currently submitting to presses for review for publication, another book—the third in the projected quadrilogy—Varieties of Moral Knowledge. He has also begun writing the fourth book in the series, Moral Realism: A Metaphysical and Epistemological Defense. He will be on sabbatical leave during fall quarter, 2024, but will return to the classroom in winter quarter, 2025 when he will teach PHIL 34: Ethics and Adulthood, as well as an upper-division course in his current area of research and publication, PHIL 152: Problems of Moral Knowledge.