Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Tennessee, expected May 2011

  • Dissertation: Rawls’s Idea of Public Reason Revisited… Again: Motivation, Respect, and Legitimacy
    • Director: David Reidy
    • Committee Members: John Hardwig, E. J. Coffman, Otis Stephens

M.A., Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 2007

B.A., Philosophy & Political Science, University of Tennessee, 2005

 

Area of Specialization

 

Social & Political Philosophy

 

Areas of Competence

 

Applied Ethics (especially Business Ethics, Bio Ethics, & Professional Responsibility), Critical Thinking, Ethics

Teaching Experience

Instructor

Independent Study: Social and Political Philosophy (Topic: Marx)

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2010

 

Social and Political Philosophy

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2010

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2009

 

Professional Responsibility (Oral Concentration)

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2010

▪ University of Tennessee, Spring 2010

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2009

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2009

▪ University of Tennessee, Spring 2009

 

Business Ethics

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2008

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2007

▪ University of Tennessee, Summer 2006

 

Contemporary Moral Issues (Oral Concentration)

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2008

 

Ethics

▪ Walters State Community College, Fall 2010

▪ Walters State Community College, Fall 2009

 

Critical Thinking

▪ South College, Summer 2009

▪ South College, Spring 2009

▪ South College, Winter 2009

▪ South College, Summer 2008

 

Introduction to Philosophy

▪ Walters State Community College, Fall 2010 (online)

▪ Carson-Newman College, Spring 2010

▪ Walters State Community College, Spring 2010

 

Teaching Assistant

Social and Political Philosophy

▪ University of Tennessee, Spring 2008

 

Engineering Ethics

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2007

▪ University of Tennessee, Spring 2007

 

Bio Ethics

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2006

 

Business Ethics

▪ University of Tennessee, Spring 2006

 

Introduction to Philosophy

▪ University of Tennessee, Fall 2005

 

Pre-College Teaching

Philosophy for Kids

▪ Based on Thomas Wartenberg’s Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children’s Literature, Inskip Elementary, Knoxville, TN, Fall 2010

 

Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking

▪ Kids U, Community Outreach for High School Students, University of Tennessee, Summer 2009

 

Public Speaking

▪ Kids U, Community Outreach for High School Students, University of Tennessee, Summer 2009

 

Additional Lower and Upper-Level Courses Qualified to Teach

Philosophy of Law

The Ethics of Citizenship

The Ethics of Belief

Philosophy of Religion

History of Ancient Philosophy

History of Modern Philosophy

 

Publications

 

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, New York, forthcoming 2010.

 

"Public Interest," Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, New York, forthcoming 2010.

 

"UDHR Rights and Duties: Contrasted and Critiqued," Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, New York, forthcoming 2010.

 

“The Race to the Bottom Hypothesis,” Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, 2nd Ed., Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, forthcoming 2010.

 

"So You Want to Organize a High School Ethics Bowl," PLATO Online -- Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, 2010.

 

 

Honors, Awards, & Fellowships

 

Graduate Teaching Associate Excellence in Teaching Award for 2008-2009, Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee

 

Top Collegiate Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2005

 

 

Presentations

 

“Rawls’s Justice as Fairness Part IV: Institutions of a Just Basic Structure”

▪ Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, February 2010.

 

“A Dilemma for Foley's Accounts of Rational Belief and Responsible Belief” (with EJ Coffman)

▪ Baylor University’s Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, Feburary 2010.\

 

“It’s Never too Early to Talk about Ethics: Creating a National High School Ethics Bowl” (discussion panel)

▪ Invited by the Squire Family Foundation, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2010.

 

“A Dilemma for Foley's Accounts of Rational Belief and Responsible Belief” (with EJ Coffman)

▪ Baylor University’s Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, Feburary 2010.

 

“Guns at Work”

▪ Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2009.

 

“A Human Right to Keep and Bear Arms”

▪ Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2008.

 

 

Conference Commentaries

 

“On Charles Cardwell’s ‘A Brief Inquiry into Organ Donation’”

▪ Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2009.

 

“On Kevin Bond’s ‘Intra-professional Conflict of the Military Physician’”

▪ Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2007.

 

 

Workshops Overseen

 

“How to Lead Successful Philosophy Discussions: Herding Kants”

▪ Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, September 2009.

 

 

Selected Works in Progress

 

“The All-Things-Considered Approach to the Ethics of Belief”

 

“Guns at Work”

 

 

Professional Service

 

Organizer and Host, First Annual East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl, University of Tennessee, Nov 2009.

Participant, Pre-College Ethics Interest Group, organized by Squire Foundation, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, 2009—continue to collaborate with group.

Blind reviewer for Open Court Publishing, 2009.

Active Baker Scholar, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy (nonpartisan), 2007-pres.

 

 

Community Service

 

Lead organizer for weekly Philosophy for Kids class at Inskip Elementary School in Knoxville, TN, Fall 2010

 

Led a philosophical discussion with 3rd Graders at Vonore Elementary School, Vonore, TN, on Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, May 2010

 

Led roundtable discussion on the ethics of abortion for the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy's learning community, Sept 2009

 

Volunteer public speaking coach, Tennessee School for the Deaf, 2009-pres

 

 

Professional Organizations

 

American Philosophical Association

 

Tennessee Philosophical Association

 

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

 

Society of Christian Philosophers

 

 

References

 

David Reidy

Professor and Head

Department of Philosophy

University of Tennessee

801 McClung Tower

Knoxville, TN 37996-0480

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865-974-7210

 

John Hardwig

Professor and Head (retired)

Department of Philosophy

University of Tennessee

801 McClung Tower

Knoxville, TN 37996-0480

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EJ Coffman

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

University of Tennessee

806 McClung Tower

Knoxville, TN 37996-0480

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865-974-3255

 

 

Graduate Coursework

 

Social and Political Philosophy

Rawls, David Reidy

Democracy, David Reidy

Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, David Reidy

Contemporary Theories of Justice, David Reidy

Political Theory, Robert Gorman (Political Science Dept.)

 

Philosophy of Law

Responsibility and Punishment, David Reidy

Philosophy of Law, David Reidy

Independent Study, John Davis

 

Ethics

Feminist Ethics, Betsy Postow

End of Life, John Hardwig

Contemporary Kantian Ethics, Denis Arnold

Ethics and Animals, John Nolt

Markets and Morality, Denis Arnold

 

Epistemology

Independent Study, EJ Coffman

 

History

Plato, John Kress

Kant’s 1st Critique, Richard Aquila

 

Logic

Intermediate Formal Logic, John Nolt

 

Philosophy of Science

Feminist Philosophy of Science, Heather Douglas

Science and Public Policy, Heather Douglas

 

Other

Anthropology of Human Rights, Trish Redker-Hepner (Anthropology Dept.)

Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Trish Redeker-Hepner (Anthropology Dept.)