Ken Casey:  

School After going to GHS I went to the University of Florida. I started in Political Science with the idea of going into law--although I enjoyed it, I found myslef really taken with questions of political philosophy and later I took a strong interest in philosophy itself. This strong interest in philosophical questions eventually led me to change my major to philosophy. I was also inerested in religion and in understanding my faith. Having grown up Baptist, I went to the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville (luckily this was before the fundamentalists over-ran the school and fired many of teachers). At Southern I studied biblical languages, Greek and Hebrew, took an interest in New Testament and Church history. While in Louisville at the time I also started up in their Master's philosophy program and did a bit of student teaching. Eventually, I went on to Vanderbilt to pursue my doctorate in philosophy--finally graduating in 1992. My interest at Vanderbilt was primarily in ethics and Ancient philosophy. My dissertation was a study of what might be called the ethics of argumentation and I looked at th...Expand for more