Jason Baehr

Jason Baehr, Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Director, has been teaching at LMU for 22 years. He specializes mainly in virtue epistemology. His work in this area ranges from highly theoretical (e.g. Inquiry and Agency and The Inquiring Mind) to practical and applied (e.g. Deep in Thought and Intellectual Virtues and Education). From 2012-2015, he directed the Intellectual Virtues and Education Project, which was sponsored by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation and included the founding of the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach. His two favorite authors outside of philosophy are the Southern Gothic fiction writer Flannery O’Connor and the English Carmelite Ruth Burrows. When not reading, writing, or teaching, he enjoys cooking, swimming, discovering and listening to new music, and spending time with family and friends.