CV

Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Philosophy
2011

B.A.
Pennsylvania State University
Philosophy and English
magna cum laude
2001

Areas of Specialization

Ethics, Moral Philosophy, History of Ethics, Aristotle, Kant

Areas of Competence

Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Action, Feminist Philosophy

“The Importance of Pleasure in the Moral for Kant’s Ethics”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, June 2016, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 226-246. *Winner of North America Kant Society's Wilfred Sellars Essay Prize.

“An Anscombian Approach to Pleasure”, Klēsis Revue Philosophique 35, 2016, pp. 164-179.

“Kant, Oppression, and the Possibility of Non-Culpable Failures to Respect Oneself”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, September 2017, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 285-305.

“Kant's Quasi-Eudaimonism”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, September 2018, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 317-341.

“Gilead vs. the Self”, in The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy: A Womb of One's Own, Open Court Publishing, Popular Culture and Philosophy series, December 2018, pp. 159-170.

“Aristotle on the Pleasure of Courage”, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, June 2019, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 289-312.

“Kant as Ethical Naturalist: First and Second Natures in Kant's Ethics”, Philosophical Inquiries, special issue on The Virtues and Practical Reason, September 2019, Vol. 7, No. 2. (forthcoming)

“Blowing Off Steam: Freud, Smut, and Samantha Bee's Political Comedy”, in Ethics in Comedy, McFarland. (forthcoming)

Pleasure and the Virtues in Aristotle, under contract, Lexington Books.

“Can We Change Our Pleasures?: A New Look at Kant on Pleasure in the Agreeable” (under review)

“Aristotle on Learning to Enjoy Bodily Pleasures” (under review)

“Why Aristotle Would Not Agree that Good Living is the Art of Measurement” “Breaking Bad Together: Aristotle on Vicious Pleasures, Sociality, and Coherence”

“Pleasurable Eating and Aristotle’s Energeia-Kinēsis Distinction”

“Kant on Mistaking Pleasures”

“Pleasure as a Transformative Good and the Three Character Formations of Appetitive Soul in Republic 8 and 9”

Why Pleasure Matters: Theories of Virtue, Vice, and Pleasures Erotic, Exotic, and Mundane

“Kant on Mistaking Pleasures” Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2020

“Breaking Bad Together: Aristotle on Vicious Pleasures, Sociality, and Coherence” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Christopher Newport University, November 2019

“Aristotelian Temperance and the Quasi-Reasoning of Appetites” Ancient Philosophy Society, Hartford, April 2019

“Can We Change Our Pleasures?: A New Look at Kant on Pleasure in the Agreeable” University of Minnesota and Ryerson University, February 2019

“First and Second Natures in Kant's Ethics” Enhancing Human Dignity: The Virtues and Practical Reason, University of Udine, Italy, November 2018

“Kant’s Quasi-Eudaimonism” North American Kant Society, Women Scholars Mentoring Workshop, Washington University, November 2017

“Aristotelian Temperance and the Quasi-Reasoning of Appetites” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2017

Responsibility and Non-Rational Aspects of Agency Symposium Participant American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Kansas City, March 2017

“Pleasure as a Transformative Good and the Three Character Formations of Appetitive Soul in Republic 8 and 9” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Weber State University, November 2016

“Kant’s Pleasure in the Agreeable and Empiricist Conceptions of Pleasure” Fifth Annual Tennessee Value and Agency Conference: Pleasure and Pain, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September-October 2016

“Getting to Virtuous Agreement with the Agreeable for Kant” Kant and Aristotle in Conversation, Auburn University, March 2016

“Aristotle on Temperance and the Reasons of Appetite” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Idaho State University, November 2015

“The Pleasures of Temperate Eating” Utah Valley University, March 2015

“Pleasurable Eating: How Aristotle’s Energeia-Kinesis Distinction Distinguishes the Pleasures of the Virtuous Foodie from Those of the Gluttonous Gourmand” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, March 2015

“The Unenlightened Sex: Kant, Feminism, and Culpable Failures of Moral Imagination” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Utah State University, November 2014

“Self-Respect, Responsibility, and the Unenlightened Sex” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2014

“Does Aristotle’s Vicious Person Wish to be Otherwise?” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2014

“The Unenlightened Sex: Kant, Feminism, and Moral Imagination” Bard College, February 2014

“Self-Respect, Responsibility, and the Unenlightened Sex” Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy, Arizona State University, November 2013

“Vicious Pleasures, Apparent Goods” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Utah Valley University, November 2013

“An Anscombean Approach to Pleasure” University of Utah, September 2013

“Errant Pleasures” Weber State University, April 2013

“Kant on the Pleasures of Virtue” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 2013

“Aristotle on the Pleasure of Courage” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013

“Why Bother with Merely Apparent Pleasures?” University of Illinois at Chicago, January 2013

“Kant on Pleasure and the Good Life” University of Memphis, January 2013

“The Pleasures of Virtue in Kant’s Ethics” Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy, Cal Poly Pomona, November 2012

“Pleasurable Eating and Aristotle’s Energeia-Kinēsis Distinction” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, October 2012

“Pleasure, Power, and Appetite in Plato’s Republic” International Plato Society, University of Michigan, October 2012

“Is Plato’s Philosopher a Political Prude?” Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Brigham Young University, November 2011

Wilfred Sellars Essay Prize Winner for the North American Kant Society, 2016

Faculty Undergraduate Advisor of the Year, 2013

Tave Teaching Fellowship, 2011

Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2007-8

Witherspoon Institute Grant, Thomistic Seminar, 2007

Travel Grant, University of Toronto Conference on Agency and Identity, 2007

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2002-7 University of Chicago Century Fellowship, 2002-7 (declined)

Honors Medal in English, Schreyer Honors College, 2001

National Merit Scholarship, 1997

Utah State University

Instructor

Business Ethics – Spring 2012, Spring 2013 Designed and taught a depth humanities class for 30 students.

Contemporary Ethical Theory – Fall 2012, Spring 2018 Designed and taught an advanced seminar for undergraduate philosophy majors.

Ethics – Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016 Designed and taught a general education class for 40-70 students.

Ethics and Economic Life – Spring 2015, Spring 2017 4 Designed and taught a new depth humanities class for 25 students.

Political Philosophy – Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2019 Designed and taught a depth humanities class for 25 students.

Social and Political Philosophy – Fall 2011, Fall 2013 Designed and taught a depth humanities class for 30 students.

Social Ethics – Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 Designed and taught a general education class in applied ethics for 50 students.

Theories of Sex and Gender – Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020 Designed and taught a new depth humanities class for 25 students.

Virtue Ethics - Spring 2019 Designed and taught a new depth humanities class for 25 students.

Advisor

Senior Capstone Thesis Project – Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2018 Worked independently with five students writing a senior thesis paper.

Global Communication Practicum – Summer 2014 Helped a student summarize and analyze his practicum experience required for the Global Communications Major.

Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member for a student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program, English Department

Univeristy Honors Program, Book Lab Instructor – Spring 2019, Fall 2019 Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny; Ovid, Metamorphoses

University of Chicago

Instructor

Philosophy Department

Ethics and Utopian Dreaming – Winter 2011 Designed and taught an advanced philosophy course for undergraduates.

Pleasure and the Good Life – Spring 2007 Designed and taught an advanced seminar for undergraduate philosophy majors.

Humanities Core

Human Being and Citizen – Fall, Winter, Spring 2010-11 and 2009-10

Greek Thought and Literature – Fall 2008

Philosophical Perspectives – Summer 2008 Taught courses in the humanities core for freshmen.

Advisor

Senior Year B.A. Thesis Seminar – Fall, Winter, Spring 2008-9 Led work-in-progress workshops for philosophy majors writing B.A. theses.

Course Assistant

Theories of Sex and Gender – Professor Candace Vogler, Winter 2009

Spiritual Exercises and Moral Perfectionism – Professor Arnold Davidson, Fall 2006

Metaethics – Professor Candace Vogler, Spring 2006

The Meaning of Life – Professor Charles Larmore, Fall 2005

Introduction to Ethics – Professor Candace Vogler, Spring 2005

Humanities Core Writing Intern

Philosophical Perspectives – Fall, Winter, Spring 2006-7 and 2004-5

Greek Thought and Literature – Fall, Spring 2005-6 and Fall 2008

Human Being and Citizen – Fall, Winter, Spring 2010-11 and 2009-10, and Winter, Spring 2009

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference, Utah State University Center for Innovative Design Instruction, August 2015

New Faculty Teaching Academy, Utah State University Provost Office, Fall Semester 2011

Workshop on Teaching in the College, Center for Teaching and Learning, September 2006

Pedagogies of Writing, University of Chicago Writing Program, Summer 2004

Panel Participant and Organizer for Star Wars Symposium, Zombie Zymposium, “How to Think Philosophically when Politics Goes Crazy” Symposium, Superhero Symposium, Comedy and Philosophy Symposium, Are Students Snowflakes? Symposium, Meaning and #MeToo, Politically Irrational Animals: Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018

Faculty Sponsor of US-SWIP (Utah State Society for Women in Philosophy): Fall 2018—

Moderator for Suffrage Histories and Challenges Panel, part of USU's Voting Rights 1870/1920/1965/2020 Symposium with Carol Anderson: March 19-20, 2020

Organizer and Panel Participant for Wising Up: Gangster Movies and Action: Fall 2018

Speaker for Supreme Stakes: Understanding Sexual Violence Teach-In: Oct. 9th, 2018 Member, Discussant, and Mentor for Women's Leadership Initiative, Center for Women & Gender: 2018-19

Coach. Wasatch Regional Ethics Bowl: Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018

Coach. National Ethics Bowl Competition: Spring 2016, Spring 2013

Organized Viewing of Fed Up and Discussion of Ethical Implications, USU Tanner Event Series: March 2015

Search Committee Member for Philosophy Postdoc: Spring 2018

Search Committee Member for Philosophy Lecturer: Spring 2016

Search Committee Member for Classics Postdoc: Spring 2016

Departmental Awards Committee Member: Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016

Panel Organizer, “Information and Access: Sharing Knowledge Across Virtual Communities”, USU Tanner Event Series: October 2013

Planning Committee Member for new minor concerning citizenship, ethics, and civil discourse: Fall 2012

Panel Participant, “Do We Have a Right to Knowledge?”, Panel on Open Access, USU Merrill-Cazier Library: Oct. 26th, 2011

Co-Director, Prospective Student Recruitment: 2006

Coordinator, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop: 2006-7

Student Representative, Ethics Hiring Committee: 2006-7

Candace Vogler
David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
vogue@uchicago.edu

Jonathan Lear
John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
jlear@uchicago.edu

Gabriel Richardson Lear
Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
grlear@uchicago.edu

Anne Margaret Baxley
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
abaxley@wustl.edu

Rachel Zuckert
Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
r-zuckert@northwestern.edu

Charlie Huenemann
Professor of Philosophy, Utah State University
charlie.huenemann@usu.edu