Christopher J. Voparil, Ph.D.

Dr. Christopher J. Voparil is a philosopher and political theorist whose teaching and writing center on ethics and justice with a specialization in the tradition of American pragmatism. His work seeks to develop socially-situated, embodied, ameliorative approaches and motivational resources for addressing contemporary social ills. 

https://www.lynn.edu/campus-directory/people/christopher-voparil

Lynn University (Current)

• Associate Professor, Lynn University, October 2023-Present

Lynn University (Previous)

• Chair - Department of Humanities, Lynn University, January 2001-August 2007. He was a member of the original Dialogues of Learning Task Force.

• Co-Editor of the journal Contemporary Pragmatism
• Co-editor of Pragmatism and Justice (Oxford, 2017) and The Rorty Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), in addition to two volumes of Richard Rorty’s work: What Can We Hope For? Essays on Politics (Princeton, 2022) and On Philosophers and Philosophy: Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 (Cambridge, 2020).
• Secretary of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
• Founding President of the Richard Rorty Society

• Graduate Faculty, Union Institute & University, January 2007-October 2023

• Union Institute & University Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016
• Herbert L. and Dr. Beth I. Alswanger Gopman Research Fund Award, 2015
• Union Institute & University Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2013
• Fulbright Scholar, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2012