Curriculum Vitae ANDREW JASON COHEN June 2017
Department of Philosophy [email protected] Georgia State University Web: gsu.academia.edu/AndrewJasonCohen PO Box 3994 Web: www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Cohen16 Atlanta, GA 30302-3994
ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Founding Coordinator, Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics (2016-present) Affiliate Faculty Member of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (2008-present; Assistant Professor 2005-2008)
Visiting Professor of Ethics, McDonough School of Business Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Fall 2015)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religion James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia (2000-2005)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1997-2000)
EDUCATION
Georgetown University Ph.D., Philosophy (1997) M.A., Philosophy (1994)
Emory University B.A., Economics and Philosophy (1989)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Social and Political Philosophy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Economics; Business Ethics; Medical Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Normative Ethical Theory; History of Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; Free Will; Philosophy of Religion
PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS
Toleration. Oxford: Polity Press, 2014. Reviewed by Peter Balint (Australasian Journal of Philosophy Volume 92 No. 4, October 2014: 816-817). Reviewed by Aref Ebadi (Political Studies Review Volume 13 No. 2, May 2015: 243) Interview on Free Thoughts Podcast, September 2015 (http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/toleration#.pjh6ccu:hBpT) Author Meets Critics session at Central APA 2016. Symposium in Reason Papers Volume 38, No. 2, Winter 2016, with response to comments by Emily M. Crookston and David Kelley.
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Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (in progress; under contract with Routledge)
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Why Paternalists and Social Welfarists Should Oppose Criminal Drug Laws” (coauthored with William Glod). Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Ed. Chris W. Surprenant. NY: Routledge Press, 2018. (225-241).
“Psychological Harm and Free Speech on Campus.” Society, forthcoming (available at http://rdcu.be/tXQt).
“Response to Emily M. Crookston and David Kelley” (symposium on Toleration). Reason Papers Volume 38, No. 2, Winter 2016 (27-38).
“Contemporary Liberalism and Toleration.” Cambridge Companion to Liberalism, Ed. Steve Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (189-211).
“Toleration.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. LaFollette, Hugh. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013 (5150-5160).
“Exchanges and Relationships: On Hard-headed Economics Capturing the Soft Side of Life.” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 38 No. 2, April 2012 (231-257).
“A Conceptual and (Preliminary) Normative Exploration of Waste.” Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 27 No. 2, Summer 2010 (233-273). (Also printed in Moral Obligation, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (233-273)).
“Existentialist Voluntarism as a Source of Normativity.” Philosophical Papers, Volume 37 No. 1, March 2008 (89-129).
“What the Liberal State Should Tolerate Within Its Borders.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 37 No. 4, December 2007 (479-513).
“What Toleration Is.” Ethics, Volume 115 No. 1, October 2004 (68-95).
“Defending Liberalism Against the Anomie Challenge.” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 30 No. 3, July 2004 (391-427).
“Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Asocialism.” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 34 Nos. 2- 3, September 2000 (249-261). (Also in Liberalism: New Essays on Liberal Theory, ed. Narveson, Jan and Susan Dimock, Norwelt, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000 (101-113)).
“Does Communitarianism Require Individual Independence?” The Journal of Ethics, Volume 4 No. 3, July 2000 (283-305).
“On Universalism: Communitarians, Rorty, and (‘Objectivist’) ‘Liberal Metaphysicians’.” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38 No. 1, Spring 2000 (39-75).
“In Defense of Nietzschean Genealogy.” Philosophical Forum, Volume 30 No. 4, December 1999 (269-288).
“Communitarianism, ‘Social Constitution,’ and Autonomy.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 80 No. 2, June 1999 (121-135).
“A Defense of Strong Voluntarism.” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35 No. 3, July 1998 (251-265).
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PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW
“Freedom From Harm” (under review)
“Harm: An Event-Based Feinbergian Account” (under review)
“The Harm Principle and Corporations” (in progress)
“Libertarianism and Parental Licensing” (under review)
“Toleration and Business Ethics” (in progress)
“What We Should Tolerate Internationally” (under review)
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Autonomy (Andrew Sneddon, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013). Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 13 No. 6, 2016 (764-767).
The Justification of Religious Violence (Steve Clarke, John Wiley & Sons, 2014). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 94 No. 1, 2016 (206).
Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality. (John Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2002). Utilitas, Volume 16 No. 1, March 2004 (115-117).
Liberalism Beyond Justice (John Tomasi, Princeton University Press, 2001). Humane Studies Review, April 2002 (on-line journal; no longer available).
A Case for Conservatism (John Kekes, Cornell University Press, 1998). Ethics, Volume 111 No. 2, January 2001 (411-414).
PUBLICATIONS: BLOGS
Bleeding Heart Libertarians (bleedingheartlibertarians.com). Regular Contributor and Founding Member.
Learn Liberty (learnliberty.org). Occasional Contributor.
PeaSoup (www.peasoup.us). Occasional Contributor.
PRESENTATIONS
“Harm.” Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Faculty Conference. TX, October 2017.
“Overcriminalization & Paternalism” (with Bill Glod). Moral Foundations of Capitalism Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2017.
Commentator, Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty, Chapter 4: Legitimacy and Colonialism. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, May 2017.
Panelist, “Reforming Criminal Law: Juvenile Sentencing and Non-Ideal Theory.” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017.
“Libertarianism Excludes Corporations.” The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2017. Also at: Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 2015.
“Bars Are Bad for You: Why Paternalists Should Oppose Criminal Drug Laws” (with Bill Glod). Against Incarceration Conference, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2016.
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Author Meets Critics Session on Toleration with Emily M. Crookston, David Kelley, and Shawn Klein. American Association for the Philosophical Study of Society. 2016 Central APA Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2016.
“Freedom From Harm.” Legal and Ethical Studies Program, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, October 2015. Also at: George Mason University Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Fairfax, VA, April 2015.
“Libertarianism and Parental Licensing.” University of New Orleans Department of Philosophy, March 2015. Also at: Moral Foundations of Capitalism Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2014.
“The Harm Principle and Corporate Welfare (or Tolerationism vs. Promotionism).” University of New Orleans Department of Philosophy, March 2015.
“Does Inequality Matter? Yes!” 2014 Association for Private Enterprise Education Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2014.
“My Bleeding Heart Libertarianism.” Moral Foundations of Capitalism Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2013.
Commentator, Roberta Berry’s “Fractious Problems in Science and Technology Policy: A Navigational Approach to Policymaking.” Georgia Philosophical Society, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, March 2013.
“What Liberals Should Tolerate Internationally.” South Carolina Society for Philosophy, Charleston College, Charleston, SC, March 2013.
Commentator, Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition, Chapter 4: Liberal Neutrality. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, August 2012.
Commentator, Samuel Huang’s “Reasonableness, Respect, and the Response to Civil Disobedience.” Pacific Division APA Conference Colloquium, Seattle, WA, April 2012.
Commentator, Neera Badhwar’s Happiness as the Highest Prudential Good, Chapter 3: Well-being: From Subjectivity to Objectivity. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, August 2011.
Commentator, Wolfgang van den Daele’s “The image of man in neuroscience – Is it ethically relevant?” Bielefeld University Center for Interdisciplinary Research Conference: Neuroscience, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Mind, Bielefeld, Germany, May 2011.
Commentator, Matt Zwolinski’s “Exploitation and Neglect” and Robert Mayer’s “Sweatshop Exploitation and the Benefit Paradox.” Pacific Division APA Conference Invited Symposium on Exploitation, San Francisco, CA, April 2010.
Commentator, Elizabeth Anderson’s The Imperative of Integration, Chapter 4: Racial Segregation Today: A Normative Assessment. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, May 2009.
“A Conceptual and (Preliminary) Normative Exploration of Waste.” Moral Obligation: Bowling Green State University Social Philosophy and Policy Center Conference, Bowling Green, OH, November 2008.
“On Hard-headed Economics Capturing the Soft Side of Life and Improving Two Models of Obligation.” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2008. Also at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (Athens, Greece, June 2007) and the Georgia Philosophical Society Fall 2006 Meeting (Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, November 2006).
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Commentator, Arthur Ripstein’s Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy, Chapter 4: Private Right II: Property. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, May 2008.
“About Objectivity and Morality.” Humanists of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, May 2008
Commentator, Joseph Carens’ Title TBA, Chapter 10: The Case for Open Borders. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, November 2006.
Commentator, Rob Hughes’ “Self-ownership and Coercion.” Eastern Division APA Conference Colloquium, New York, NY, December 2005.
Commentator, John Simmons’ Political Philosophy, Chapter 4: Obligation. Manuscript Workshop, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Ethics Center, Georgia State University, December 2005.
“Religion, Truth, and Toleration.” Central Division APA Conference Colloquium, Chicago, Illinois, April 2005 and Virginia Philosophical Association Conference, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, October 2004.
“What Toleration Does and Does Not Require From Liberalism.” Invited Speaker, Department of Political Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 2005.
“Toleration and Borders: The Moral Questions.” Invited Speaker, Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA, December 2004.
“Toleration, Harm, and Autonomy.” Eastern Division APA Conference Colloquium, Washington, DC, December 2003. “Enriching Justice: The Ideal of Autonomy and the Ideal of Reciprocity as Coinciding.” Pacific Division APA Conference Colloquium, San Francisco, CA, March 2003.
“From Radical Choice to Real Impartiality: Existentialist Voluntarism as a Source of Normativity.” Invited Speaker, College of William and Mary Department of Philosophy, Williamsburg, VA, November 2002.
“The Shepherd, the Wolf, & the Sheep: An Exploration into Toleration and Liberalism.” Invited Speaker, MA College of Liberal Arts Philosophy Club, May 2002. Also at Hampden Sydney College Philosophy Club, Hampden Sydney, VA, February 2002.
Commentator, Norman Melchert’s “The Last Word in Ethics.” Virginia Philosophical Association Conference, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, October 2001.
Commentator, Adam Moore’s “Owning Genetic Information and Gene Enhancement Techniques: Why Privacy and Property Rights May Undermine Social Control of the Human Genome.” Eastern Division APA Conference Colloquium, New York, NY, December 2000.
“Religion and Life.” Invited Speaker, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, May 2000.
“A Libertarian View of the Current Global Economy.” Guest Speaker, Students Against Sweatshops Colloquia Series, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 1999.
“What Toleration is and What it Requires.” Invited Speaker, Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. Also at Departments of English, Political Science and Philosophy, University of Waterloo, July 1999.
“In Defense of Nietzschean Genealogy.” Invited Speaker, Departments of English, Political Science, and Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, July 1999.
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Commentator, David Garren’s “Freedom Not To Be Free: What is Right With Slavery.” Pacific Division APA Conference Colloquium, Berkeley, CA, March 1999.
“For Autonomy: Is Paternalism Dead?” Invited Speaker, Ethics Grand Rounds, Department of Religion, Health & Human Values of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center/Rush University, Chicago, IL, May 1998.
Chair, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs: “Compatriots, Friends and Political Obligation.” Central Division APA Conference Group Session, Chicago, IL, May 1998.
“A Defense of Strong Voluntarism.” Pacific Division APA Conference Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, March 1998.
GRANTS AND HONORS
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY INAUGURAL PROVOST’S STUDY IN A SECOND DISCIPLINE FELLOWSHIP $25,000 (To study in the College of Law) Fall 2017
CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION GRANT $65,000 for monograph project, Toleration and Freedom from Harm. Fall 2016-Summer 2017
CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION GRANTS (with Andrew I. Cohen) For a speaker series, course development, undergraduate scholarships, graduate student scholarships, and a conference on over-criminalization & indigent legal care. $163,155 (six increasing grants in seven years) Fall 2009-Fall 2016
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES, JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION GRANT (with Andrew I. Cohen) $6,000 for public panel events regarding over-criminalization & indigent legal care. Fall 2016
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS $60,280 (as Visiting Professor of Ethics) Fall 2015
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY GRANTS TO IMPROVE RETENTION, PROGRESS, AND GRADUATION $166,000 (four grants in four years) Fall 2006-Spring 2010
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATION GRANT $7,900 (“Enriching Justice: Reconciling Competing Models”) Summer 2006
NEH FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: POLITICAL OBLIGATION, DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THEORETICAL & APPLIED ISSUES, directed by Andrew Altman and Christopher Heath Wellman, Georgia State University. Participant, Summer 2005
LIBERTY FUND, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Visiting Scholar, 2003-2004
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Visiting Scholar, Summer 2002
JMU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT $3,000 (“Existentialist Liberalism”) Summer 2002
NEH FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: SUPRANATIONALISM: THE ETHICS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, directed by The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Participant, Summer 2001
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY & POLICY CENTER, BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY Visiting Scholar, Summer 1999
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UNDERGRADUATE-ONLY COURSES •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Phil 2010 Introduction to Philosophy; Phil 3000 The Ethics of Money; Phil 3720 Contemporary Moral Problems; Phil 3730 Business Ethics; Phil/PolSci/Econ 3810 Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Phil 4990 Happiness & Justice; Independent Studies covering the nature of obligation, Henry Richardson on practical and public reasoning, and ethics •Georgetown University, Fall 2015 Phil 135: Toleration and Public Policy •James Madison University, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 Phil 101 Introduction to Philosophy (sometimes Honors); Phil 270 Introduction to Ethics; Phil 330 Moral Theory; Phil 333 Environmental Ethics; Phil 335 The Individual, The State, and Justice; Phil 344 Existentialism; Phil 440 Advanced Moral Theory; Phil 445 Advanced Political Philosophy; Phil 475 The Limits of Liberty •University of Arizona, Fall 1997-Spring 2000 Phil 103 Philosophical Perspectives on Society; Phil 104 Justice and Virtue; Phil 110 Logic and Critical Thinking; Phil 111 Introduction to Philosophy; Phil 233 Philosophy of Religion; Phil 245 Existentialism; Phil 263 19th Century Philosophy: Hegel to Nietzsche; Phil 321 Medical Ethics; Independent Study covering Plato’s moral & political thought •Georgetown University, Fall 1994-Spring 1997 Phil 001 Introduction to Philosophy; Phil 106 Ethics and Public Policy
UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT COMBINED COURSES •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Phil 4700/6700 Normative Ethics; Phil 4800/6800 Social Political Philosophy, Phil 4820/6820 Philosophy of Law
•University of Arizona, Fall 1997-Spring 2000 Phil 410/510a History of Moral Philosophy; Phil 410/510b History of Political Philosophy; Phil 430/530b Normative Ethics
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present John Raubach (Spring 2011, Honors Thesis, “Sustainability and Its Ethical Demands”) Jason Murray (Summer 2008, McNair Fellow, “On the morality of the ‘Fair Tax’”) Elijah Owour (Spring 2008, Honors Thesis, “Human Rights in The International Legal System”) •James Madison University, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 Jonathon Norris (2003 History Thesis, on Dostoevsky and Nietzsche) Sarah Hippolitus (2002 Philosophy Thesis, on Mackie and Nagel).
GRADUATE-ONLY COURSES •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Phil 8000 Justice, Rights, and International Affairs; Phil 8700 Political Ethics; Phil 8810 Toleration: Contemporary Writings; Phil 8810 Liberalism: From Hobbes to Tomasi; Phil 8820 Toleration: Historical Writings
GRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION: COMMITTEE CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Gaetano Venezia (current, TBD) Harrison Lee (Spring 2017, “In Defense of The State Based View of Harm”) Jason Byas (Spring 2017, “Rights, Alienation, and Forfeiture,” pursuing PhD at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne)
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GRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION: COMMITTEE CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR (CONTINUED) •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present (continued) Jeffrey Carroll (Spring 2016, “Taking Indeterminacy Seriously in Liberal Justice Theorizing,” pursuing PhD at University of Virginia) Gagan Sapotka (Spring 2016, “Moral Conflicts and The Role of Phronesis,” pursuing PhD at University of Colorado-Boulder) Travis Holmes (Spring 2015, “Luck and Relational Egalitarianism,” pursuing PhD at University of Missouri) Jon Ravenelle (Spring 2015, “Freedom and Equality in Education: A Private School-Publicly Funded Voucher Education System,” currently Grants Administrator at the GA Regional Transportation Authority) Chetan Cetty (Spring 2014, “A Defense of the Necessity of Ideal Theory,” pursuing PhD at University of Pennsylvania) Carson Young (Spring 2014, “Be Our Guest: A Defense of Temporary Worker Programs,” pursuing PhD in Business Ethics at Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania) Paul Vickery (Summer 2012, “Mill’s Defense of Liberty”) James DiGiovanni (Spring 2012, “Against Collective Consequentialism,” went on to Harvard Law) Shanna Slank (Spring 2012, “Against the Ideal/Non-Ideal Distinction in Political Philosophy,” pursuing PhD at University of Wisconsin) Cleo Grimaldi (Fall 2011, “Why Not Penal Torture?”) Keith Fox (Fall 2010, “Self-Ownership, Freedom and Eudaimonia”) Tim Clewell (Spring 2011, “The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelean Virtue Ethics,” currently teaching philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College) Benjamin Fischer (Spring 2011, “Bayle’s Theory of Toleration,” received JD from NYU School of Law, practicing attorney) Andrew Hookum (Spring 2011, “An Inquiry Into The Ethical Significance of Pain,” currently teaching philosophy at University of West Georgia) Stephen Parsley (Spring 2011, “Rethinking Legal Retribution,” received JD from UVA School of Law, currently practicing attorney, Birmingham, AL) Sean Bustard (Spring 2010, “Marxist Equality of Condition and Broad-based Economics: Towards a Sustainable Economy,” pursuing PhD at SUNY-Binghamton) Scott Nees (Spring 2010, “Pogge's Institutional Cosmopolitanism”) Charles Carmichael (Spring 2009, “Redistribution and the Disabled,” received JD from GSU School of Law, practicing attorney, Atlanta, GA) Chase Turner (Fall 2008, “Children, Harm and the State”) Joe Adams (Spring 2008, “Retribution Conflicts with the Demands of Fairness,” pursuing PhD at Rice University) Joy Salvatore (Spring 2008, “Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution,” currently teaching philosophy at Rowan College and Gloucestor County College)
GRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION: COMMITTEE MEMBER •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Dan Kemp (current, TBD) Marie Kerguelen Le Blevennec (current, TBD) Leroy Lamar (current, “Can Feminism End Prostitution”) Joe Porter (current, TBD) Robert Vanderbeek (Spring 2017, “Kant’s Singularity Thesis”) Walt Duhaime (Spring 2015, “Nietzsche’s Constructive Philosophy”)
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GRADUATE THESIS DIRECTION: COMMITTEE MEMBER (CONTINUED) •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present (continued) Stephen Herman (Spring 2014, “Political Liberalism, Objections, and Religious Reasons”) Laurie Merhwein (Spring 2014, “Stilz and The Case of Loyalty, Human Rights, & Property Rights”) Adam Fox (Fall 2013, “Global Egalitarianism and the State”) Zachary Hopper (Spring 2013, “Thomas Pogge and The Two Types of Libertarian”) J.P. Messina (Spring 2013, “Kant and the Priority of Self-Knowledge”) Cami Koepke (Spring 2013, “Libertarian Paternalism and the Authority of the Autonomous Person”) Gabriel Rogasner (Spring 2012, “International Luck Egalitarianism: A Legislative Approach”) Jodi Geever-Ostrowsky (Spring 2011, “Considering a Human Right to Democracy”) Tracy Vanwagner (Summer 2011 (Chair, Fall 2010), “Making Kane’s Libertarianism Plausible”) Ian Dunkle (Summer 2009, “Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique”) Robert Underwood (Spring 2009, “Warfare, Conceptual Unity, and the Just War Tradition”) Jason Craig (Spring 2009, “Raz on Authority: Problems of Practical Reason and Expertise”) Andy Reagan (Spring 2009, “The Rational Theory of Addiction and the Will”) Maria Guorova (Summer 2008, “The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant’s Aesthetics”) Ness Creighton (Summer 2008, “Kant, Jefferson, and Freedom and its Implications”) Derrick Nantz (Fall 2007, “Nietzsche on Naturalism, Egoism and Altruism”) Brandon Byrd (Summer 2007, “Virtue Ethics and Moore’s Criticisms of Naturalism”) William Allen (Spring 2007, “In Defense of Rawlsian Constructivism”) Jenn Hudgens (Spring 2007, “Perspectives on Perspectivism: Nietzsche and His Commentators”) Sean Aas (Summer 2006, “Rawls’s Cosmopolitan Law of Peoples? The Place of Persons”) Tim Crews-Anderson (Summer 2006, “The Impossibility of Evil Qua Evil: Kantian Limitations on Human Immorality”) John Ranta (Summer 2006, “Nietzsche on the Future and Value”) Keith Deiner (Spring 2006, “A Defense of Soft Positivism: Justice and Principle Processes”)
SERVICE
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Coordinator, Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies Concentration in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2017-present) Co-Organizer, Overcriminalization and Indigent Legal Care Conference (April, 2017) Chair, College Curriculum Committee (2016-2017; 2009-2012; Member 2016-2018, 2008-2012) Convener, Chair, and Proposal Author, Committee to Initiate Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Programs, 2015-2016. (B.I.S. degree approved 2016). Alternate, University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (2006-2009)
•James Madison University, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable (2000-2001) Writing in the Disciplines Committee (2000-2001)
DEPARTMENT: COMMITTEE CHAIR •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Graduate Admissions Sub-Committee for Ethics and Related Areas (2017, 2013) Assessment Committee Coordinator (2005-2014) Critical Thinking Through Writing Program Ambassador (2008-2014)
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DEPARTMENT: COMMITTEE CHAIR (CONTINUED) •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present (continued) Promotion and Tenure Committee (2012-2013, Christie Hartley tenured) Academic Program Review Committee (2008-2010) Program for Retention, Progress, and Graduation Coordinator (2006-2010; authored proposals) Lecturer Search Committee (2007-2008; made hire) Visitor Instructor Search Committee (Spring 2006 and Spring 2007) •James Madison University, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 Originator and Coordinator, Departmental Colloquia Series (2000-2003)
DEPARTMENT, COMMITTEE MEMBER •Georgia State University, Fall 2005-present Chair Search Committee (Spring 2017) Graduate Student Committee (2013-2017, 2005-2007) Committee for the Triennial Evaluation of the Chair of the Department of Philosophy (2016, 2013) Assessment Committee (2014-2016) Promotion and Tenure Committee (2008-2013) Executive Committee (2008-2009, 2011-2012) Philosophy of Mind Tenure Track Search Committee (2010-2011, made hire) Philosophy of Mind Tenure Track Search Committee (2008-2009, made hire) Program Committee (2007-2009) Senior Position Search Committee (2006-2008, made hire) 19th Century/Continental Tenure Track Search Committee (2005-2006, made two hires) Metaphysics or Epistemology Tenure Track Search Committee (2005-2006) Departmental Secretary (2005-2006) •James Madison University, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 Personnel Advisory Committee (2004-2005) Student Educational Policies Committee (2000-2005) Graduate Advisory Committee (2000-2001, 2002-2005) Philosophy Curriculum Committee (2000-2003; Chair 2002-2003) Advisor, Philosophy Minors (2001-2003)
REGIONAL Coordinator, 2003 Virginia Philosophical Association Conference (Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, October 17-18, 2003) President, Virginia Philosophical Association (2002-2003) Coordinator, 2002 Virginia Philosophical Association Conference (University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, October 18-19, 2002) Vice-President and Acting President, Virginia Philosophical Association (2001-2002)
EDITORIAL Leaf Editor, PhilPapers (philpapers.org), “Autonomy” and all subcategories (2011-present) Leaf Editor, PhilPapers (philpapers.org), “Toleration” and all subcategories (2011-present)
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Referee of journal articles for Journal of Applied Philosophy (2017, 2015), Business Ethics Quarterly (2017), Social Philosophy Today (2016), Journal of Social Philosophy (2016, 2015, 2009, 2008), Journal of Business Ethics (2016, 2015), Journal of Private Enterprise (2015), American Journal of Political Science (2015), Social Theory and Practice (2015, 2010, 2009), Ethnic and Racial Studies (2015, 2014), Public Affairs Quarterly (2014), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006), Ratio Juris (2014), Constitutional Political Economy (2013), British Journal of Political Science (2012), Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2012, 2010), Philosophical Quarterly (2012), Reason Papers (2011), Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (2010), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2010), Political Research Quarterly (2010, 2009), Journal of Moral Philosophy (2008), Political Theory (2005) Referee of Peter Balint’s Respecting Toleration (complete) for Oxford University Press (2015) Referee for paper submissions to Conference on The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility at Wake Forest University (2015; conference 2016) Referee of edited volume proposal Business Ethics for Rowman and Littlefield (2012) Referee of Humane Studies Fellowships (2010; 2011) Referee of monograph proposal Toleration in Political Conflict for Cambridge University Press (2011) Referee of a monograph proposal on Autonomy and Liberalism for Routledge Publishers (2009) Referee of edited volume proposal on Analytic Existentialism for Cambridge University Press (2002)
COMMUNITY: Member, International Community School Teaching and Learning Committee (2016-2017) Member, City of Avondale Estates Ethics Board (2011-2016) Member, Museum School of Avondale Estates Academic Excellence Committee (2013-2015) Member, Museum School of Avondale Estates Personnel Committee (2013-2015) Board of Directors, Avondale Estates Condominium Association (2006-2009 and 2013-2015; President 2007-2009; Maintenance Committee Chair, 2010-2011) Foster Care Parent, United Methodist Children’s Home (2010-2012; may repeat in future) Member, Family Selection Committee, Central Valley Habitat for Humanity (VA, 2003)