Teaching Experience at Utah State University

Social Ethics - a lower-level general education course in applied ethics

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Ethics 

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Contemporary Ethical Theory - an upper-level class in metaethics

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Ethics and Economic Life - my version of a business ethics course

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Political Philosophy

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Theories of Sex and Gender

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Virtue Ethics

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I have also worked with five students majoring in philosophy who chose to write a Senior Capstone Thesis with me, which involves intensive one-on-one work over a semester. The student-selected thesis topics include: Locke on property, Anscombe on birth control, Aristotle on temperance, Anscombe and action theory, and Gilligan’s use of gendered moral norms and capacities for feminist purposes.

Finally, I have worked for many years as the coach of USU’s Ethics Bowl teams. Twice our teams did well enough in the Wasatch regional competition in the Fall to advance to the National competition that Spring