Sean_McGrath_(philosopher)
Sean McGrath (philosopher)
Canadian philosopher
Sean Joseph McGrath (born 1966) is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is known for his published work in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of religion. Major single-authored works include The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious (2012), Thinking Nature: An Essay in Negative Ecology (2019), The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (2021), and Political Eschatology (2023). McGrath was awarded the President's Award for Outstanding Research at Memorial University in 2012.[1] He was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada as Member of the College of New Scholars in 2014.[2] In 2022, in collaboration with the Centre of the Cross, McGrath released a series of podcasts on secular Christianity called Secular Christ.[3]