Irfan Khawaja is Instructor in Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He holds an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University (1991) as well as an M.A. in philosophy from Notre Dame (2002), and is a doctoral candidate at Notre Dame completing a dissertation entitled The Foundations of Ethics: An Inquiry. His area of specialization is ethics; his areas of competence include epistemology, political philosophy, ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle), and action theory. Recent publications include "Islam and Capitalism: A Non-Rodinsonian Approach," (in Business and Religion: The Clash of Civilizations, [Salem, MA: M&M Scrivener Press, 2005], ed. Nicholas Capaldi), "Celebrating Arabs and Grateful Terrorists: Rumor and the Politics of Plausibility," (in Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend, [New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005]), as well as several book reviews in the journal Teaching Philosophy. Forthcoming research includes work on the relation between epistemic foundationalism and moral knowledge; on Christine Korsgaard's Sources of Normativity; on Edward Said's Orientalism; and on capital punishment.

At John Jay, Khawaja teaches Phi 231 ("Philosophical Method and Its Applications," i.e., the introductory philosophy course) and Phi 322 ("Judicial and Correctional Ethics") and serves as Advisor to the program on the Philosophy Minor.