Dr. R.J. Snell


Dr. R.J. Snell

Dr. R.J. Snell

R. J. Snell (MA Boston College, PhD Marquette University) is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. Previously he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good.

His many books include Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington). He and his family reside in the Princeton area.