Tom McPartland

Tom McPartland is director of the Whitney Young School of Honors and Liberal Studies at KSU. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in intellectual history from the University of Washington, integrating work in the fields of philosophy, history, classics, and bio-medical history. Before coming to KSU he taught in both philosophy and history departments. McPartland has taught in the seminar, language, and math/science components of the Honors Program, focusing recently on core math/science courses and on a seminar dealing with ideas of nature. He has taught special topic seminars on the philosophy of law, the history of revolutions, African history and culture, and Lonergan's Insight. He has delivered numerous papers and published articles and a book on the ideas of Bernard Lonergan, whose philosophy emphasizes the normative significance of the process of questioning, an approach at the heart of the seminar-based learning of the Honors Program. He was elected KSU’s Distinguished Professor of 2002-03.