Jeffrey Kaplan
Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Philosophy Pre-Law Concentration Advisor
Philosophy
Email Address: jikaplan@uncg.edu
In addition to serving as an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Kaplan is the founder and director of the UNCG Prison Education Program, which provides academic programming for people incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution: Butner Medium II. He has won five teaching awards.
Bio & Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, 2018
M.Phil. University of Cambridge, Philosophy, 2011
B.A. Williams College, Philosophy, summa cum laude, 2009
Courses Taught
- PHI 335 Philosophy of Law
- PHI 355 Philosophy of Language
- PHI 119 Introduction to Ethics
- PHI 111 Introduction to Philosophy
- PHI 137 Minds & Brains
- PHI 138 Good & Evil
RESEARCH
Dr. Kaplan’s research is primarily in the philosophy of law and philosophy of language.
More Information
Jeffrey Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Before coming to UNCG, he was a volunteer faculty member at Mount Tamalpais College (formerly called ‘the Prison University Project’), which is the only accredited liberal arts college in the country that teaches all of its classes inside a prison. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley and his MPhil from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Before that, he was an undergraduate at Williams College and Oxford University. His research is primarily in the philosophy of law and philosophy of language. Dr. Kaplan is also the founder and director of the UNCG Prison Education Program, which provides academic programming for people incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution: Butner Medium II. He has won five teaching awards. He also posts his lecture videos on YouTube, where they have received over 13 million views. You can find his lecture videos by going to YouTube.com and searching for his name, “Jeffrey Kaplan”.