Faculty

Stephen Grover

Department Chair
Associate Professor
Philosophy Department
D.Phil, Oxford, 1989

Office: Powdermaker 350A-1
Phone: 718-997-5270
stephen.grover@qc.cuny.edu

Area of expertise: Philosophical theology, Early Modern philosophy.

Dr. Grover has taught at Queens College since 1994, and joined the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001. He became Chair of the Philosophy Department in 2010.

Degrees

  • BA First Class, Philosophy & Theology, Trinity College, Oxford, 1981
  • B.Phil, Oxford, 1983
  • D.Phil, Oxford, 1989
  • Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1985-92

Selected Publications

  • ‘Mere addition and the best of all possible worlds’, Religious Studies.
  • ‘Cosmological fecundity’, Inquiry.
  • ‘Incommensurability and the best of all possible worlds’, The Monist.
  • ‘West or best? Sufficient reason in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence’, Studia Leibnitiana.
  • ‘Satisfied pigs and dissatisfied philosophers: Schlesinger on the problem of evil’, Philosophical Investigations.