Jack M. C. Kwong
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
I am Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
I received my B.A. from the University of Lethbridge and my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. My primary areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemology, and moral psychology.
My work has appeared in American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Ratio, and Synthese, among other venues.
2026 Despair is Not Hopelessness: Autonomy and Behavioral Interventions for Deaths of Despair
(with A. Hortal) Public Health Ethics, vol. 19, no. 3; https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phag025
2026 Philosophical Inquiry and Controversial Views
Metaphilosophy, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 242-254.
2025 Gatekeeping the Mind
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 3211-3233.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 225-242.
Sanford Hall 402
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-2424
kwongj at appstate dot edu