Received Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Award for 2008-2010

Kenneth Lucey has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University.  He is a philosophical generalist with expertise in a wide range of core areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of religion and philosophical logic.  As a generalist with wide ranging interests, Dr. Lucey has published in each of these areas.

Dr. Lucey began his working career as a computer scientist with a top secret clearance at the Mitre Corporation, a "think tank" outside of Boston, Massachusetts. From there he moved to a job as a programmer/analyst at the Harvard Business School.

In 1971 Ken Lucey, and his physicist wife Carol, moved to Western New York state to found a computer center for a college there.  The next year he took a philosophy job at the SUNY college at Fredonia, where he remained the next 27 years, except for two years as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at the University of Pittsburgh.

Prof. Lucey has been a Scoutmaster, an avid bibliophile, a college administrator and a racquet ball player.  For the last dozen years at Fredonia he was a department chairman, and most recently as simultaneously been chair of two academic departments, namely philosophy and foreign languages.  He has been the recipient of numerous grants, including three from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served as President of several regional philosophical associations.  Dr. Lucey is the editor of three volumes, namely:  Recent Work in Philosophy, What Is God?, and On Knowing and the Known. 

Courses Taught:
CH 201--Ancient and Medieval Cultures (Core Humanities)
Phil 210--World Religions
Phil 323--Problems in the Philosophy of Religion
Phil 425/625--Philosophy of Language (formerly Phil 406)
Phil 440/640--Theory of Knowledge (formerly Phil 403)
Phil 441/641--Metaphysics (formerly Phil 404)

Phil 451/651--Happiness

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Updated: 07/03/2008