Robert Paul Churchill

Robert Paul Churchill is an American philosopher, ethicist, logician, educator, author, and academic. Churchill's career at George Washington University spanned forty two years from 1975 to 2017. He served as Elton Professor of Philosophy at GWU from 2014 to 2017, and as chair of the department of philosophy twice (1986–1988 and 1992–1994), and as director of the peace studies program from 1997 to 2001. Churchill was the president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace from 2004 until 2005, and the American Society for Value Inquiry, and the founder of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World and its director for eight years.

Churchill is known for his work, often interdisciplinary, on human rights, war, ethics, logic, politics, and social philosophy.