David McPherson
Asst. Professor (Creighton)
Network Member
David McPherson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author of Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He regularly teaches courses in ethical theory and applied ethics as well as a course titled “Ultimate Questions: Philosophy, Spirituality, and the Meaning of Life” for which he is developing a philosophy as a way of life approach. He is currently Vice-President of Philosophers in Jesuit Education and will become President in November 2019. He plans to take up initiatives advocating for a philosophy as a way of life approach within Jesuit education, focusing especially on how philosophy can be a kind of spiritual exercise. David and his wife Kirstin (who is also a philosopher) enjoy playing folk music and they have three wonderful young children, Clare, John, and Peter.