DavidMcPherson

  • 2021-22 Sabbatical Fellow
  • BENSON CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

David McPherson is the Benson Center’s first sabbatical fellow and will serve as a visiting research professor during the 2021-22 academic year.

McPherson is an associate professor of philosophy at Creighton Թ in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a PhD in philosophy in 2013 and an MA in philosophy from Marquette Թ, and a BA in philosophysumma cum laudefrom Bethel Թ.

At the Benson Center, McPherson is working on a book project titledSpiritual Alienation and the Quest for God. This book articulates, explores and responds to the problem of spiritual alienation, which is the state of being “estranged from human fulfillment,” and which he argues is a perennial feature of the human condition but is exacerbated within the conditions of Western modernity, such as secularity.

This book project builds on his previous book monographs,(Cambridge Թ Press, 2020) and(Oxford Թ Press, 2022), andhis edited volume,(Cambridge Թ Press, 2017).

His research specializations are in ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion.