I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and am currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where I offer courses in the philosophy of religion, the history of modern philosophy, hermeneutics and phenomenology, and also serve as the Director of the Religious Studies minor program.   I have published on Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of religion and have presented papers in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Russia and South Africa.  At the moment, I am putting the finishing touches on an edited volume entitled At the Boundaries of Thought: Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Religion  (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming), writing about Kant's moral religion, and developing a project that traces the religious sources of modern conceptions of autonomy.  In Spring of 2012, my wife (Suchitra Mattai) and I served as faculty on the University of Virginia's "Semester at Sea" program.  

I am happy to be returning to academic life after having taken a hiatus  in order to serve as campaign manager and chief political strategist for Jim Graves (my father), who, alas, was narrowly defeated by Michele Bachmann in Minnesota's 6th congressional district.  

My general areas of research include:

• Contemporary continental philosophy
• Philosophy of religion
• Moral philosophy 
• Phenomenology (especially Husserl, Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion) 
• Hermeneutics (especially Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Ricoeur and Vattimo)
• History of modern philosophy (especially Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard) 
• Methodological and theoretical issues in the study of religion