Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff received his BA from Calvin College in 1953 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. Before taking the position of Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, he taught for thirty years at his alma mater, Calvin College.
After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career, he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art. In more recent years, he has been concentrating on epistemology (e.g., Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistomology, Cambridge U. Press, 2004), philosophy of religion (e.g., Inquiring about God, Cambridge U. Press, 2010; Practices of Belief, Cambridge U. Press, 2010), and political philosophy (e.g., The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology, Cambridge U. Press, 2012). Dr. Wolterstorff regularly teaches lecture courses in philosophy of religion and aesthetics, and seminars in epistemology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion.
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Sanford C. Shugart
Sanford (Sandy) Shugart, PhD, blends two careers, one as president of Valencia College (with 60,000 students and winner of the prestigious Aspen Prize as the nation’s best community college in 2011), another as a poet and singer/songwriter. He says they nourish each other, his “day job” giving him the material that is turned into ballads and folk-rock lyrics of life, work, growing, and growing old. He is the author of Leadership in the Crucible of Work: Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader.