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Gordon Graham(born 1949) is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy at Princeton and founding editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy.

Graham was born in Ireland where he attended the Friends School Lisburn and Methodist College Belfast. From 1968-1972 he studied Logic and Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) where he graduated M.A.(hons) in 1972. He went on to postgraduate study in political philosophy at the University of Durham (England) and graduated M.A. in 1973 and PhD in 1975.

In 1975, Graham was appointed Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and promoted to Reader in 1987. He was appointed Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) in 1975, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999. In 2006 he moved to the USA to take up the newly created Henry Luce III Chair of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary.

In September 2005 he was ordained Deacon in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and Priest in June 2006. He is a licensed priest in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

Graham is married and has two daughters, two sons, and two granddaughters. Books

Historical Explanation Reconsidered (Aberdeen University Press, 1983)

Politics in its Place: a study of six ideologies (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986)

Contemporary Social Philosophy (Blackwell, 1988)

The Idea of Christian Charity: a critique of some contemporary conceptions (Notre Dame University Press, 1990)

Living the Good Life (Paragon Press New York, 1990)

The Shape of the Past: a philosophical approach to history (Oxford University Press, 1997)

Ethics and International Relations (Blackwell 1997, second edition Wiley-Blackwell 2008

Philosophy of the Arts (Routledge, 1998, third edition 2005)

The Internet: a philosophical inquiry (Routledge, 1999)

Evil and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Universities: the Recovery of an Idea (Imprint Academic 2002, second edition 2008) The Case Against the Democratic State (Imprint Academic, 2002)

The Re-enchantment of the World: art versus religion (Oxford University Press, 2007) Theories of Ethics (Routledge, 2010)

Wittgenstein and Natural Religion (Oxford University Press, 2014)