Kirk Kanzelberger

Faculty Fellow

Kirk Kanzelberger, PhD

My name is Kirk Kanzelberger, and I hold a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University (2011).   My philosophical interests lie in Peircean semiotics, science and the ways of knowing, moral psychology, and metaphysics.

Originally from Wisconsin, I had a somewhat itinerant childhood, living in various places in the US, and in Madrid during the waning years of the Franco regime.  I went to college in Pasadena at the California Institute of Technology, where I studied math and biology.  I obtained a master’s degree in Philosophical and Systematic Theology from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, before returning east and beginning doctoral studies in philosophy at Fordham.

I am married to an organometallic chemist that I met in Dabney Hovse at Caltech (literally, the girl next door).  We have six children and (so far) four grandchildren.  Alongside philosophy and theology, I’ve had a parallel career in software technology, working for industrial and research organizations on both US coasts.

To learn more about me and my interests, you can watch this Lyceum Institute interview with me; listen to my Lyceum Institute Colloquium lecture, “Mending the Cartesian Rift”, on Walker Percy and Charles Peirce; or read my article, “Reality and the Meaning of Evil”, in the inaugural issue of REALITY: A Journal for Philosophical Discourse.

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