Jeffrey Kaplan

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”.