Hartwick college

EDUCATION:

PhD in Philosophy, August, 2002; University of California, Riverside

Dissertation: "Agency, Normativity, and Theory: Awakening from an Anthropological Slumber." Committee: Bernd Magnus (chair), Georgia Warnke, Larry Wright

MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, October, 2003 (with distinction); The London School of Economics and Political Science

MSc Dissertation: "The Relevance of Rules to a Critical Social Science"

MA in Philosophy, March, 1999; University of California, Riverside

Thesis: "Foucault and Public Autonomy"

BA in Philosophy, August, 1997 (summa cum laude); The College of William and Mary

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

· Moral and Political Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

· 19^th- and 20^th-century French and German Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Wittgenstein, Kant, Ancient Philosophy, Logic

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

· Heidegger: A Beginner's Guide, One World Publishing, under contract, 2011

· Torture: A Philosophical and Political Analysis, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, 2010.

· The Ethics of Torture, (co-authored with R. D. Emerick), forthcoming, Continuum Press, 2009.

· The Politics of Agency: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology, Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

· Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry: A Defense of Ethics as Clarification, Continuum Studies in Philosophy, Continuum Press, 2007.

Articles:

1. "What we owe the dead," Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming.

2. "Ergon and Logistikon in Republic," Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, forthcoming.

3. "Mourning my future death: Finitude, Love, and Self-Deception," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 15:2, forthcoming 2008.

4. "It's about Time: Defusing the Ticking Bomb Argument," International Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming, Spring 2008.

5. "Unwarranted Torture Warrants: A Critique of the Dershowitz Proposal," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 2, 2008.

6. "When the Dead Do Not Consent: The Ethics of Non-Consensual Organ Use," Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2008.

7. "Failures of Sight: An Argument for Moral Perception," American Philosophical Quarterly (co-authored with Henry Jacoby), 44:3, July 2007.

8. "Murder, Cannibalism, and Indirect Suicide: A Philosophical Study of a Recent Case," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 14:1, Spring, 2007.

9. "Expressibility and Truthmaker Maximalism: A Problem," Organon F, XIV, 2007.

10."Strong Evaluations, Criticism, and Agency" Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 40, Number 1, March, 2006.

11."The Relevance of Rules to a Critical Social Science," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 35, No. 4, 2005.

12."Is the Immortal Life Worth Living?" International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 58, Number 1, 2005.

13."Rules and Realism: Remarks on the Poverty of Brute Facts," Sorites, Vol. 16, December, 2005.

14."A Defense of Cannibalism," Public Affairs Quarterly, 18:3, July, 2004.

15."An Antirealist Essentialism?" Philosophical Writings, Issue 23, Summer, 2003.

16."Five Forms of Philosophical Therapy," Philosophy Today, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring, 2003.

17."Revolutions without Reasons: Foucault's Ironic Ethics," premiere issue, Review Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 1, No. 1, 2003.

18. "Assertions, Clarifications, and Recommendations: Theories of Agency in a Wittgensteinian Key," American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Number 2, April 2002.

19. "Foucault and Public Autonomy," Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World), Vol. 33, No. 4, October 2000.

Reviews:

1. Review of Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, in Metapsychology: Online Reviews, Volume 11, No. 41, October 9, 2007.
2. Review of The Bioethics Reader: Editors' Choice, Blackwell Publishing, in Metapsychology: Online Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 6, 2008
3. Review of Oath Betrayed, Steven Miles, Metapsychology: Online Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 6, February 5, 2008
4. Review of Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible, Human Rights Quarterly, May 2008.
5. Review of Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2008, 230pp in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May, 2008.
6. Review of Almerido E. Ojeda, editor, The Trauma of Psychological Torture, Praeger Publishers, 2008, Metapsychology: Online Reviews, forthcoming.

Popular Philosophy

Books:

· Family Guy and Philosophy (edited), Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

· The Office and Philosophy (edited), Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

· X-Men and Philosophy (edited, with Rebecca Housel), Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming, 2009).

Chapters in Popular Anthologies:

1) "The Phenomenology of Becoming a Runner" in Running and Philosophy, edited by Mike Austin, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

2) "The Metal Militia and the Existentialist's Club" in Metallica and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

3) "Killing the Griffins: A Murderous Exposition of Postmodernism" in Family Guy and Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

4) "The Other Children: The Importance and Meg and Chris," (written under the pseudonym 'P. Sue Dohnimm') in Family Guy and Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

5) "Nails and Screws: Paper Tigers and Moral Monsters in The Office" in The Office and Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

6) "Michael Scott is Going to Die" (co-authored with Meg Lonergan) in The Office and Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

7) "Mutant Phenomenology: Towards an Investigation of Mutant Being-There" in X-Men and Philosophy (edited, with Rebecca Housel), Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming, 2009).

WORK IN PROGRESS:

· "Hearing the Still-Ticking-Bomb: A Reply" (in progress)

· "Heidegger and Aristotle on Friendship" (in progress)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

· Editor-in-Chief, Review Journal of Political Philosophy, April, 2003-Present (beginning with Volume 2)

· Co-Organized the 15^th Annual Conference for the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, held July 6-10, 2008, Snow Mountain Ranch, Colorado.

· Co-Organized the 16^th Annual Conference for the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, held July 18-23, 2009, Pine Lake Environmental Campus, Hartwick College, New York.

· External Reviewer, Journal of Nietzsche Studies

· External Reviewer, Philosophy in the Contemporary World

· External Reviewer, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Rowman & Littlefield, and Routledge.

· Organizer of Group Meetings at the Pacific Division APA, 2006-2008, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

· Member, American Philosophical Association

· Member, Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion.

SERVICE TO COLLEGE COMMUNITY:

· Member, First-Year Seminar Cohort I (2008-2010)

· Committee on Academic Standards (beginning 2007)

· Working Group on Middle States Re-Accreditation (Fall, 2007)

· Enrollment Management Task Force (2006-2007)

· Initiator and Organizer of "The Weekly Roundtable," an interdisciplinary discussion forum led by faculty and students from various disciplines (Fall 2006-present)

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

1. "It's about Time: Defusing the Ticking-Bomb," Athens Institute Philosophy Conference, June, 2008, Athens, Greece.
2. "It's about Time: Defusing the Ticking-Bomb" presented at the Pacific APA meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2008.
3. "The Morality of Torture: Ticking Bombs, Good Intentions, and Autonomy," Hartwick Faculty Lecture Series, May 2008.
4. "It's about Time: Defusing the Ticking-Bomb," invited paper, University of Colorado, Denver, February 2008.
5. "Violence, Terrorism, and Corporate Colonialism" presented with the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, July, 2007.
6. "Owing the Dead," presented as part of a conference on Death & Dying, Oxford University, July 9-12, 2007.
7. "Phenomenology and Moral Realism," presented at the Pacific APA meeting of the Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, 2007.
8. "Ethics and Aesthetics as One: Remarks on the Primacy of Moral Perception," presented at the Pacific APA meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2007.
9. "Marcuse, Wittgenstein, and the Critique of Social Practice," presented paper, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, July, 2006.
10. "Kant's Categorical Imperative: An Alternative View," invited paper, University of Minnesota, Duluth, March 2006.
11. "Marcuse, Wittgenstein, and the Critique of Social Practice," invited paper, Florida Atlantic University, February 2006.
12. "What we owe the dead," invited paper, University at Albany (SUNY), January, 2006.
13. "Rethinking the Categorical Imperative," invited paper, California State University, Northridge, January, 2006.
14. "Rethinking Kant's Ethics," invited paper, East Carolina University, January, 2006.
15. "The Case for Anti-Antirealism: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Aristotle on Language and Essence," presented at the Eastern Division APA meeting of the Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, December 2005.
16. "Heidegger and the Natural Ontological Attitude," presented at the Pacific APA meeting of the Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, 2005.
17. "Heidegger and the Natural Ontological Attitude," invited paper, Department of Philosophy, Beloit College, February, 2005.
18. "The Relevance of Rules to a Critical Social Science," invited paper, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Geneseo, February, 2005.
19. "The Agency of Torture," presented at the Eastern APA meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, December, 2004.
20. "Murder, Cannibalism, and Indirect Suicide: A Philosophical Study of a Recent Case," presented paper, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, July, 2004.
21. "The Relevance of Rules to a Critical Social Science," invited paper, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans, February 2004.
22. "Constitutive Rules and Critical Theory" invited talk, Department of Philosophy, Dickinson College, February 2004.
23. "Rules and Realism: Remarks on the Poverty of Brute Facts," presented at the Eastern-Division APA meeting of the Society for Realist/Anti-realist Discussion, December 2003.
24. "Wittgenstein, Kant, and Ethical Inquiry," invited paper, Department of Philosophy, East Carolina University, February, 2003.
25. "Could There Be a Therapeutic Social Science?" presented to the Research Seminar in the Philosophy of Social Science, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, January, 2003.
26. "When Our Heroes are Our Villains: Kripke, Foucault, and Essence," presented at the Eastern-Division APA meeting of the Society for Realist/Anti-realist Discussion, December 2002.
27. "The Most Important Nonsense: Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry," presented paper, 24^th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 29-30, 2002.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

· Hartwick Faculty Research Grant, 2008-2009

· Hartwick Faculty Research Grant, 2007-2008

· Graduated with Distinction, London School of Economics, 2003.

· Graduate Merit Award, London School of Economics. 2002-2003.

· Teaching Assistant of the Year, UC Riverside, 1998-1999.

· Chancellor's Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Riverside, 1997-1998.

· Phi Beta Kappa, 1997.

· Summa Cum Laude, College of William and Mary, 1997.

EMPLOYMENT:

Hartwick College 2006-present.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track)

Courses Taught: Phil 201: Classics of Philosophy

Phil 250: Just Work: Ethical Issues in Capitalism and Business

Phil 250: Bioethics

Phil 250: Death and the Dead

Phil 236: Logic

Phil 336: Ethics

Phil 350: Philosophy and Postmodernity

Phil 350: Phenomenology

Phil 350: Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language

Travel Abroad Course:

Phil 281: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle: Ancient Philosophy in Athens, Greece

Non-departmental courses:

Intr 250: Facing Death

Posc 250: The Politics of Torture

First Year Seminar: The Socratic Project

East Carolina University 2003-2006

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy,

Courses taught: Phil 1175: Introduction to Ethics

Phil 1110: Introduction to Philosophy

Phil 2275: Professional Ethics

Phil 2453: Existentialism and Phenomenology

Phil 3313: Ancient Philosophy

Phil 3350: Kant and Hegel

Phil 3521 (Directed Readings): Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Phil 3521 (Directed Readings): Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

California State University, San Bernardino, 2001-2002.

Adjunct Instructor in Philosophy

Courses taught: Phil 105: Critical Thinking through Argument Analysis

Phil 101: Moral Choices in Life [a course in applied ethics]

University of California, Riverside, 1998-2002.

Associate Instructor in Philosophy

Courses taught: Phil 116: Business Ethics; Phil 175: Social Philosophy; Phil 112: Mortal Questions [a course in philosophical anthropology]; Phil 001: Introduction to Philosophy

Teaching Assistantship (at UC Riverside):

Phil 001: Introduction to Philosophy, [many times] with the following instructors: Bernd Magnus, David Glidden, Pierre Keller, Howard Wettstein, and Eric Schwitzgebel

Phil 002: Contemporary Moral Issues, with David Shoemaker

Phil 007: Critical Thinking, with Larry Wright