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Stephen Puryear is a Professor and Department Head in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He joined NC State in 2008 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and has held various roles including Teaching Assistant Professor (2008-2013), Assistant Professor (2013-2017), Associate Professor with tenure (2017-2023), and Professor since 2023.
His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2006) and M.A. (2004) from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in Philosophy (2000) from Texas A&M University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1994) from NC State. He has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Philosophical Society and Leibniz Society of North America, and currently as Vice-President of the latter (2024-2028).
- Research Interests: Metaphysics, Ethics, History of Modern Philosophy, Focus on Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Idealism, Animal Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Infinity, Continuum, Space and Time
His current projects include a book on Leibniz’s idealism and editing a Cambridge Critical Guide on Schopenhauer’s Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (due 2026). He has won multiple teaching awards, including the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Lecturer Award (2012) and university-level Outstanding Teacher Award (2020), with induction into the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers.
His recent publications span topics from Schopenhauer’s ethics to Leibniz’s metaphysics of color and the logic of cosmological finitism. He has also contributed reviews and critical discussions on works by Pelczar and Garber.
