Meet the Faculty: Paul Blaschko ’19 Ph.D.

Paul Blaschko ’19 Ph.D. is an assistant teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches God and the Good Life, a course dedicated to asking the big questions about meaning, morality, and faith. He also serves as the founding Director of the Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society, a program devoted to exploring how the humanities can help us find meaning in work. With Meghan Sullivan, he co-authored The Good Life Method (Penguin Press, 2022), a book about how philosophy can help us live better lives, which was also the basis for The Good Life Method series here on ThinkND. He is currently working on a book about the philosophy of work (under contract with Princeton University Press), and is the co-founder of a Notre Dame based tech start-up that aims to solve problems with dialogue on the internet. In his spare time, he does a good bit of philosophy on TikTok, and he used to do professional improv comedy in the Twin Cities.