Stephen Grimm

Stephen R. Grimm is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, specializing in epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, and ethics. He regularly teaches classes in all of these areas, along with courses in the history of philosophy (especially Wittgenstein).

Grimm is series editor for the Oxford University Press line "Guides to the Good Life," and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

With Steve Angle at Wesleyan and Meghan Sullivan at Notre Dame, he is co-directing a NEH 2018 Summer Institute on "Reviving Philosophy as a Way of Life." From 2013-2016 he led a $4.5 million dollar interdisciplinary project on the nature of understanding, supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, with additional support from the Henry Luce Foundation. Grimm has received the Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Humanities at Fordham, and Fordham's Externally Funded Research Award.

Grimm is the current President of Philosophers in Jesuit Education, and a former member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, where he served as education director at St. John the Baptist Community Center in New Orleans.