Meet the Faculty: Meghan Sullivan

Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and serves as Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Sullivan’s research focuses on philosophical problems concerning time, modality, rational planning, value theory, and religious belief (and sometimes all five at once). Sullivan is deeply interested in the ways philosophy contributes to the good life and the best methods for promoting philosophical thought. Since 2017, Sullivan and the God and the Good Life team at ND have raised over $1.3M to support projects for research, teaching, and digital outreach in publicly engaged philosophy.  Sullivan is the Principal Investigator for the Mellon Foundation’s Philosophy as a Way of Life grant (2018-2021).  She is writing a monograph on the role love plays in grounding moral, political and religious reasoning, tentatively entitled Agapism: Moral Responsibility and Our Inner Lives. Her first book, Time Biases (2018), develops a theory of diachronic rationality, personal identity and reason-based planning.