Dan Kemp

About Me


I am a faculty member at Grand Canyon University where I teach philosophy.

Starting in the Fall of 2025, I will be a Junior Fellow of Philosophy at New Saint Andrews College  where I will teach classes in their core curriculum as well as undergraduate and graduate philosophy electives.

My areas of expertise are normative theory, metaethics, the history of ethics, and the intersection of these topics with philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.


I am a member of the faculty of philosophy at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Before coming to Phoenix, I completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Baylor University, where I was the last dissertation student of C. Stephen Evans. Before that, I earned an M.A. in philosophy at Georgia State University and a B.A. in PPE from The King's College (NYC).

My academic research has focused on normative theory, metaethics, the history of ethics, and the intersection of these topics with philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. I wrote my Master's thesis on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. I have also written on the ethical thought of Boethius, Richard Hooker, Peter Vermigli, and C.S. Lewis. You can find my CV here.

I have taught several college level classes, including Intro to Philosophy, Ethics, Medical Ethics, Contemporary Moral Problems, Faith and Philosophy, Logic, and Critical Thinking. I have twice been nominated to receive the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for my teaching performance at Baylor University.

On the Summer Solstice of 2014, Carol Anne Ausband and I were wed. We currently live in Phoenix, where we are raising our four children: Elsie, Jack, Bear, and Katharine.