I’m Irfan Khawaja, owner and founder of Policy of Truth, and administrator of the site. Policy of Truth was founded in July 2014 partly to house my personal projects (few of which have actually made it onto the site), and partly as a group blog. The lineup of the blog has varied substantially over time, but is monopolized at any given time by a small handful of people, most conspicuously me.

I currently work in the denials management division of CorroHealth, a firm specializing in revenue cycle management for health care providers, mostly hospitals and hospital systems. Before that, I did a stint as an environmental services worker in the operating room at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey.

Before that, I had a twenty-six year career in higher education, focused largely on teaching rather than research. I spent the first half of my academic career as an adjunct, based primarily at The College of New Jersey, but also at Notre Dame, Princeton, Montclair State, Mercer County College, Rutgers-Camden’s Freehold campus, and Felician University.

I spent the second half of my academic career in full time positions, first as an Instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and then as Assistant and finally Associate Professor of Philosophy at Felician University. While at Felician, I taught at three of Felician’s satellite campuses—Mercer County College (again), Middlesex County College, and the Continuing Education Program at St Joseph’s Church in Paterson, New Jersey. I’ve also taught summer sessions at Al Quds University (Abu Dis, Palestine), and lectured at Forman Christian College and University (Lahore, Pakistan).

I’ve worked for three academic journals. As an undergraduate, I was an editorial intern for Academic Questions. As a doctoral student, I was on the editorial staff of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Until 2015, I was Co-Managing Editor and eventually Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Carrie-Ann Biondi) of Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies. I’ve also done editorial work for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, both print and online.

Academia aside, I’ve worked at Raytheon (now RTX), Cyanamid (later Wyeth, now Pfizer), the Educational Testing Service, and as mentioned, Hunterdon Medical Center and CorroHealth (previously Aergo Solutions).

I have an AB in Politics from Princeton (1991), and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Notre Dame (2002 and 2008, respectively). I earned 52 of 60 credits towards an MA in Counseling Psychology from Felician, but was forced to leave the institution before I could finish.

The blog is loosely associated with a couple of discussion groups. One, called MTSP, focuses primarily on philosophy (mostly ethics and political philosophy) and occasionally on philosophical issues in social science; it meets monthly by Zoom. The other was a Health Care Discussion Group consisting of people interested in health care policy. Unfortunately, that group has been defunct since 2023.

Policy of Truth has no institutional affiliations. I write here only in my own name, not as a spokesperson for any organization or entity, including my employer. I can be reached at khawajaenator at gmail, but fair warning: I’m a rather slow interlocutor. I’m on LinkedIn, but otherwise not on social media. I’ll be putting up a revised CV and resume here fairly soon.

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Last revised: March 25, 2025