George Graham
A.C. Reid Professor
Philosophy Department
Wake Forest University
336-758-5952
grahamg@wfu.edu

     
     George Graham did his undergraduate work at Fordham College and took his M.A. from Western Ontario and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He was one of the first tenure track faculty in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He taught at UAB for more than twenty-five years, serving as department chair for seventeen years. He joined the faculty at Wake in 2003 as the Department of Philosophy’s first A. C. Reid Professor. He also serves as adjunct faculty in Wake’s Graduate Program in Neuroscience.

     During the academic year 2004-2005, Professor Graham served as President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, which held its annual meeting at Wake from June 9-12. He has written or co-written dozens of articles and produced or helped to produce numerous books. His main area of research is the philosophy of mind. Prominent topics in his recent published work include connections between two aspects of the mental, viz., the conscious and the Intentional as well as the lessons of mental illness for questions about the nature of self-consciousness. Just recently along with K. W. M. Fulford and Tim Thornton, Graham has helped to complete the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Graham’s review of Michael Wheeler’s Reconstructing the Cognitive World is on queue to appear in the Times Literary Supplement.

     While at UAB, Graham received several honors or awards for teaching. At Wake, he divides his teaching between basic philosophy and electives in the philosophy of mind and related areas.

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George Graham and Neuroscience Minor