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Winner of the University of Tennessee Philosophy Department's Excellence in Teaching Award for graduate teaching associates for 2008-2009, Matt consistently receives favorable student evaluations. From an unsolicited student email (after final grades were submitted): "You have a talent that few instructors have or ever aspire to achieve. And that is you talk TO the students and not AT the students. I also knew that you were sincerely interested in my learning... another trait of the minority.” |
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Given UT's traditional strength as an applied ethics program, Matt has naturally acquired competence philosophizing about and teaching ethical issues in business, medicine, and engineering, and shares some of the fruits of academic ethics with a general audience at SocratesVotes.com. |
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Under the guidance of Rawls expert and renowned legal philosopher David Reidy, Matt's dissertation concerns the idea of public reason. He's examining what conditions should govern the reasons citizens give one another to justify state coercion, what role psychological motivation should play, and articulating an explicit theory of democratic citizens' epistemic obligations. |
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Organizer and host of the 1st Annual East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl, special thanks to Roberta Israeloff and the Squire Foundation for inspiring the event, to UT's John Hardwig and Glenn Graber for judging and helping organize, to Catholic High School and Tennessee School for the Deaf for competing, and to the Knoxville News Sentinel (article here) and WVLT Channel 8 (video clip here) for their press coverage. Looking forward to the "It's Never to Early to Talk about Ethics: Creating a National High School Ethics Bowl" roundtable at this year's APPE! |
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