Peter Westmoreland, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae [email protected] Peterwestmoreland.Com
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Peter Westmoreland, Ph.D. Curriculum vitae [email protected] peterwestmoreland.com
Areas of Specialization Feminism Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Rousseau) Philosophy of Race
Areas of Competence Social and Political Philosophy Continental Philosophy (Phenomenology & Existentialism) Ethics
Employment
2020- University of Tampa Visiting Assistant Professor
2019-20 University of Tampa Adjunct Instructor
2019-20 St. Petersburg College Adjunct Instructor
2019- University of Florida Senior Lecturer (courtesy)
2018-9 University of Florida Senior Lecturer
2011-8 University of Florida Lecturer
2009-11 Green River Community College Adjunct instructor
2009-10 Shoreline Community College Adjunct instructor
Education 2010 Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
2004 M.A. The University of Memphis
2002 B.A. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Outreach 2019- Wisdom’s Edge Foundation, Dialogue Facilitator https://www.wisdoms-edgefoundation.org/
Research Publications
Edited Volumes
Silences, implicites et non-dits chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau. Co-editor with Brigitte Weltman-Aron and Ourida Mostefai. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
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Articles
“Moral Laws of the Heart: Conscience, Reason, and Sentiments in Rousseau’s Moral Foundationalism.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)
“Rousseau’s Political Laws of the Heart.” In Silences, implicites et non-dits chez Rousseau/Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau. Ed. Brigitte Weltman- Aron, Ourida Mostefai, and Peter Westmoreland. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
“Act Like a Right-Hander: Right Hand Bias in Norms of Proximate Space Inhabitation.” Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (January 2018), 153-69.
“Queering the University: The Lives and Activism of Queer Faculty and Staff at the University of Florida, 1950-2016.” Co-authors Brittney Beck, Jennifer A. Jones, Wolfgang Sigmund. In Queering Education in the Deep South, ed. Kamden Strunk. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2017.
“A Philosophical Approach to the Concept of Handedness: The Phenomenology of Lived Experience in Right and Left-Handers.” Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition, 22:2 (2017), 233-55.
“Racism in a Black-White Binary: On the Reaction to Trayvon Martin’s Death.” In UF Law Scholarship Repository: Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations. Ed. Katheryn Russell-Brown, 2014.
“Rousseau’s Descartes: The Rejection of Theoretical Philosophy as First Philosophy.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 21:3 (2013), 529-548.
“Rousseau’s Phenomenological Model for the Co-Constitution of Self and World.” In Phenomenology 2010, vol. 5: Selected Essays from North America. Part 1: Phenomenology within Philosophy. Ed. Michael Barber, Lester Embree, and Thomas J. Nenon. Bucharest: Zeta Books / Paris: Arghos-Diffusion, 2010.
Under Review The Thriving Self (Popular audience book. Manuscript complete. ~70,000 words.)
“Descartes, the Savage, and the Barbarian” (submitted to peer review journal)
“Rousseau’s “Grand Tour” of the Race Concept” (submitted to peer review journal)
Works in Progress “Saving Rousseau from Sexism” (full draft)
“Handedness and Gender” (full draft)
Conferences Organized • First Annual Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition Conference, St. Leo University, Tampa, FL, 2020. Board of Directors member. • 20th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, June 2017. Organized, programmed, and hosted with Brigitte Weltman-Aron and Ourida Moustefai.
Presentations
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Invited Talks “Impure Dissent: Or, What Counts as Protest?” • The Culture Champions, Deloitte Consulting, Zoom meeting August 2020
“Reading the Discourse on Inequality” • History of Philosophy Society 2019 Conference: "Eris/ Polemis," Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2019
“Self-Knowledge and Domination” (Keynote Address) • Minorities in Philosophy Undergraduate Conference, Hosted by the UF Society of Women in Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Jan 2019
“White Ignorance, the Black-White Binary, and the Challenge of Trayvon Martin: Imagining Modernity without Racism” • Modernity, a Global Debate, Seminole State College, Sanford, FL Nov 2018
“Act Like A Right-Hander” • Philosophy Lightning Talk Series, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL Dec 2017
“Left Hand, Right Hand: Myths and Norms about Symmetry and Styles of Handedness” • History and Politics Speakers Series, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL March 2017
Conference Presentations “Descartes, the Savage, and the Barbarian” • First Annual Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition Conference, St. Leo University, Tampa, FL, February, 2020
“Why Rousseau’s Race Concept Is Not Racist” • 43rd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2019
“Donald Trump’s Epistemology of White Ignorance” • 57th Annual Meeting for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Penn State, State College, PA, October 2018 • 42nd Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2018
“I Was Failing Super Hard…: A Story about Teaching Philosophy to Kindergarteners” • 2018 Lighthearted Philosophers Society Conference, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA, October, 2018
“Natural Laws of the Heart: Conscience, Reason, and Sentiments in Rousseau’s Moral Theory” • History of Philosophy Society 2018 Conference: "Forms of Reason," St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, April, 2018
“Rousseau’s Political Laws of the Heart” • 41st Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2018 Peter Westmoreland 4
• 20th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, June 2017
“Act Like a Right-Hander: Right Hand Bias in Norms of Proximate Space Inhabitation” • The Southwestern Philosophical Society 79th Annual Meeting, Baylor University, Waco, TX, November 2017
“Act Like a Right-Hander: Right Hand Bias in the Construction of Norms of Lateral Space Usage” • 62nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, November 2016
“‘Throwing Like a Lefty’: What Iris Young’s Feminine Body Comportment Teaches Us about Left-Handedness” • 40th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2016
“Lived Experience of the Left: The Missing Element in Defining Handedness” • 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, November 2015 • 39th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2015
“Rethinking Fanon on Violence” • Enthusiasm for Revolution: The 17th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 2015
“Giving Philosophy a Hand” • University of Florida Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere Fellowship Series, Gainesville, FL, January 2015
“Resolving Two Paradoxes in Rousseau’s Moral Theory” • 38th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2014
“Il faut faire peau neuve: Fanon’s Bodily Schemas, New Skin, and Humanism,” co- authored with Marcus Battle. • 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Eugene, OR, October 2013 • 59th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Stetson University, November 2013
“Rousseau’s Self-Prescribed Laws of the Heart” • 18th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Winston-Salem, NC, June 2013
“Racism in a Black-White Binary: On the Reaction to Trayvon Martin’s Death” • At Close Range: The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin, Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations 10th Annual Spring Lecture, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, March 2013
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“Rousseau on Descartes” • 37th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2013 • 58th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Orlando, FL, November 2012
“The Value of Values in Rousseau’s Social Theory and Their Grounding” • 17th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Bristol, UK, July 2011
“Rousseau’s Natural Normativity” • First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Seattle University, October 2009
“Rousseau’s Philosophy of Mind” • Scientia, University of California, Irvine, April 2009
Honors and Awards • Humanities Speaker/Workshop Grant, Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere, University of Florida, 2017 • Anderson Scholar Award Faculty Honoree (awarded for mentoring an undergraduate Anderson Scholar Award winner), University of Florida, 2016 • Anderson Scholar Award Faculty Honoree, University of Florida, 2015 • Faculty Teacher of the Year Award Winner, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2015 • Rothman Summer Fellowship, “Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Chimps, and Brains,” Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere, University of Florida, 2015 • Faculty Teaching Award Nominee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UF, 2014 • Online Course Development Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UF, 2012
Teaching
University of Tampa (2019-) Feminism Fall 20 Modern Philosophy Fall 20 Social Epistemology Fall 20 Introduction to Philosophy Spr 20 (2x), Fall 19 (2x)
St. Petersburg College (2019-20) Applied Ethics Spr 20 (2x), Fall 19 Applied Ethics (online) Fall 19
University of Florida (2011-9)
Graduate courses Rousseau’s Moral & Political Philosophy Spr 17, Spr 15 Continental seminar: Self-Constitution and Embodiment Fall 12
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Honors Program courses Annett’s Handedness and Brain Asymmetry Fall 17 Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Fall 14
Upper division undergraduate courses Continental Philosophy Spr 19, Fall 14, Fall 13 Existentialism As lecture with teaching assistants Fall 13 Philosophy of Feminism As lecture with teaching assistants Fall 15, Fall 14 & co-taught with Jaime Ahlberg Power and Oppression Spr 18, Fall 16 Race & Philosophy Fall18, Fall 17, Fall 15, Spr 15, Spr 14, Spr 13, Fall 12, Spr 12 Rousseau & Early Modern Phil Spr 17, Spr 12
Lower division courses Contemporary Moral Issues Capped at 45 students Spr 19, Spr 18, Spr 13, Fall 11 As lecture with teaching assistants Fall 16, Spr 16 Introduction to Philosophy Capped at 45 students Spr 19, Fall 18, Spr 18, Fall 17, Spr 12, Fall 11 As lecture with teaching assistants Spr 16, Fall 14, Spr 14, Fall 13, Fall 12 Online Fall 15, Sum 15, Sum 13, Sum 12
University of California, Irvine (2010)
Introduction to Philosophy As lecture with teaching assistants Sum 10
Green River Community College (2009-11)
Introduction to Philosophy Spr 11, Spr 10, Fall 09 Introduction to Symbolic Logic Spr 11, Win 11, Fall 09
Shoreline Community College (2009-10)
Contemporary Moral Problems Fall 10 Introduction to Philosophy Fall 10, Spr 10, Win 10 (2x), Fall 09
Undergraduate Honors Theses Advised “Race and Place” (2018) “Choice in Lesbian Philosophy” (2018) “Rousseau’s Moral Theory: a Case for Sentiments” (2018) “Existentialism and Oppression” (2017) “A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis: The Ethics of Kinesthetic Awareness” (2016) “Responsibility without Individuals: Selfhood as an Intercorporeal Process” (2016) “Ser Cultos para ser libres: Cuban Artists’ Philosophical Resistance” (2013) “White Privilege and Moral Obligation” (2013) “Rousseau and Enlightenment” (2013) Peter Westmoreland 7
“Nietzsche and Existentialism” (2011)
Independent Studies with Graduate Students “Phenomenology of the Body in Merleau-Ponty” (2017) “Obligations from Beliefs and Racial Injustice” (2014) “Impartiality in Feminist Epistemology” (2013) “Phenomenology of Time Consciousness” (2012) “Alcoff on Procedural and Substantive Rationality” (2012) “Fanon and the Colonist” (2012)
Service and Professionalization Committees Professional Organizations Southeast Association for the Continental Tradition, Board of Directors (2019-) Florida Philosophical Association, Executive Committee (2016-8) Florida Philosophical Association, Member-at-Large (2016-8) Rousseau Association, Conference Organizing Committee (2015-7)
University (UF) United Faculty of Florida, Non-Tenure Track Committee (2018-9) LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee (2013-9) Faculty Senate Nominating Committee (2013-9) Teacher of the Year Selection Committee (2015-6) Faculty Dialogues on Race (2013-4)
Philosophy Department (UF) Diversity & Recruitment Committee (chair) (2015-9) Undergraduate Committee (2011-5)
Refereeing Article referee for South African Journal of Philosophy (2016) Book referee for OUP (2016, 2014, 2012, 2011) Book referee for Routledge (2014) Florida Philosophical Association Conference submissions referee (2012)
Department Improvement Online Course Development: Contemporary Moral Issues (2015) Oversight of General Education Reaccreditation of Introduction to Philosophy (2014) Advanced Training for Teaching Assistants in Philosophy Workshop (2013, 2012, creator and facilitator) Continental Philosophy Reading Group (2011-9, founder and facilitator)
Service Talks, Commentaries, and the Like “Pop Quiz: History of Philosophy” • Ytori Magazine, University of Florida, 2018
“Comments on Lawrence Schmidt’s paper, ‘Hermeneutic Elements in Analytic Philosophy of Science’” • 40th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, Peter Westmoreland 8
February 2017
“Donald Trump’s Epistemology of White Ignorance” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, January 2017
“Objective Value: Comments on Drew Chastain’s ‘Can Trivial or Immoral Activities Make Life More Meaningful?’” • 40th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2015
“Two Feminist Resources for Handedness Studies: Claudia Card and Iris Young” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, November 2015
“GPA Tyranny: The Case for Uncoupling Academic Performance from Scholarships” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, March 2015
“Moral Facts and Opinions: Comments on Ralph Ellis’ ‘Moral Hermeneutics, Coherence Epistemology, and the Role of Emotion’” • 39th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2015
“Lisbon, 1755: Commentary on Kevin Houser’s ‘Levinas, Esau, and the Ethical Offense of Atheism’” • 38th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2014
“Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Chimps, and Brains” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, January 2014
“Who does Philosophy? And why them? Diversity in the Discipline” • Food & Talk, the UF Philosophy Department’s Annual Welcome Event, Gainesville, FL, November 2013
“What Is a Contemporary Moral Problem?: An Overlooked Ontological Question” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, April 2013
“The Nietzsche Moustache Controversy” • University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, November 2011
Professional Society Memberships American Philosophical Association (APA) California Phenomenology Circle Florida Philosophical Association (FPA) History of Philosophy Society (HOPS) Rousseau Association Peter Westmoreland 9
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Southeast Association for the Continental Tradition (SEACT) Southwestern Philosophical Society