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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. |