Graham is the first holder of the A. C. Reid Professorship in the Wake Forest University philosophy department. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Over the course of his research career he has produced as either author, co-author or co-editor ten books for such presses as Blackwell, The MIT Press, and Oxford University Press. Over the course of his teaching career he has taught more than two dozen sorts of courses, some on mind, some on topics in recent philosophy, and some on interdisciplinary topics, spanning such disciplines as anthropology, religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience.
Born, raised and educated in New York City, Graham did graduate work in Canada and in Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis in 1975. Before joining the faculty at Wake, he taught at UAB (Alabama-Birmingham), chairing its philosophy department. Graham has been a visiting scholar at Princeton and at St. Andrews (Scotland) and has guest lectured at such universities as Duke, Emory, Texas, UCSD, Virginia Tech and the University of the West Indies. Graham is adjunct faculty in Wake’s Graduate Program in Neuroscience and active in Wake’s undergraduate neuroscience minor.