Northwestern College Associate Professor
(2003-present)
Northwestern College Assistant Professor
(1999-2003)
Claremont McKenna College Visiting
Assistant
Professor
(1998-1999)
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting
Lecturer (1997-1998)
California State University, Long Beach
Instructor
(1989, 1997-1998)
University of California, Los Angeles
Classics
Research Assistant (1996-1997)
University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching
Assistant, Associate, and Fellow (1990-1996)
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles; 1997
Dissertation: Happiness and Justice in Plato's
Republic
Committee: Gavin Lawrence, Department of Philosophy,
UCLA, Chair
Barbara Herman, Department of Philosophy, UCLA
David Blank, Department of Classics, UCLA
Michael Otsuka, Department of Philosophy, UCLA
M.A., Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach; 1989
M.A. thesis: Quine: The Nature and Implications
of
Indeterminacy
and Underdetermination
Thesis adviser: Paul C. L. Tang, Department of
Philosophy, CSULB
B.A., Chemistry, California State University, Long Beach; 1987
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Ethics
Ethics
Areas of Competence
Medieval Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Languages
Greek
Teaching Experience
Upper division courses
Aristotle
Ancient Greek Ethics
Ethical Theory
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Christianity
Philosophy of Education
Lower division courses
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Contemporary Moral Issues
Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Science Fiction
Topical Introduction to Philosophy
Historical Introduction to Philosophy
C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
Introduction to the Christian Liberal Arts
Sex, Ethics, and the Bible
Critical Reasoning
Symbolic Logic
Presentations and Publications
"AWESOM-O and the Possibility and Implications of Artificial
Intelligence," in Robert Arp, ed. South
Park and Philosophy (Blackwell, forthcoming)
Review of Jean-Francois Pradeau Plato
and the City: A New Introduction to Plato's Political Thought
(Exeter: Univeresity of Exeter Press, 2002), in Polis 20 (2003), 171-175.
Review of Mark McPherran, ed., Recollection, Remembrance, and
Reality:
New Essays on Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology (Kelowna,
Canada:
Academic Printing and Publishing, 2000), in Bryn Mawr Classical
Review,
2001.
"Thomas Nagel" in World Philosophers and their Works, ed.
John
K.
Roth, Salem Press, 2000. A biography, annotated bibliography, and
a short review of The View from Nowhere. Also an updated
annotated
bibliography for "Parmenides of Elea."
Comments on Brook Sadler's "The Role of Moral Motivations in
Relationships
of Love and Friendship," at the 2000 meeting of the Central States
Philosophical
Association.
"Is Justice Sufficient for Happiness in Plato's Republic?"
presented
at the 1999 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical
Association.
"Happiness and the Classification of Goods," presented to a 1999
graduate
seminar at the Claremont Graduate University.
"The Structure of Plato's Defense of Justice," presented at the
1999
meeting
of the Iowa Philosophical Society.
Other Professional Activities
I attended the 2005 CCCU Disciplinary Workshop at Calvin
College: "What Does it Mean to be a Christian Philosopher Today?"
co-chaired by Eleonore Stump and C. Stephen Evans.
I chaired a session at the 2002 Central Region meeting of the
Society
of
Christian Philosophers.
I chaired a session at the 2001 Central Division meeting of the
American
Philosophical Association.
I spent the 1996-1997 academic year as a research assistant for
David
Blank,
then Chair of UCLA's Classics Department, working on an NEH-sponsored
grant
to produce new editions and translations of the writings of Philodemus,
a first century B.C. Epicurean philosopher.
Professional Societies
American Philosophical Association
Iowa Philosophical Society
Society of Christian Philosophers
Central States Philosophical Association
Institutional Service
Faculty Status Committee, Northwestern College (2004-2005)
Chair, Division of Humanities, Northwestern College (2003-2004)
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, Northwestern College
(2001-2003)
Chair, Philosophy Department, Northwestern College (2001-2003;
2004-2006)
Assessment Committee, Northwestern College (2000-2001)
Adviser for undeclared freshmen, Northwestern College (2000-2001)
Director and Co-founder of the Applied Ethics Program at
Northwestern
College
(2000-present)
Co-founder and co-leader of Northwestern College's Faculty
Reading
Group (2000-present)
Graduate Seminars at UCLA
History of Philosophy
Plato's Parmenides: Mary Louise Gill
Plato's Theaetetus: David Blank
Aristotle's ethics: Gavin Lawrence
Aristotle ethics: David Pears (audit)
Aristotle's metaphysics: Rogers Albritton
Locke: Keith Donnellan
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Robert Adams
Kant's ethics: Barbara Herman
Ethics
Twentieth-century ethics: Warren Quinn
Moral realism: Warren Quinn
Moral Psychology: Philippa Foot
Normative ethics: Frances Kamm (audit)
Metaethics and moral motivation: Seana Shiffrin (audit)
Benefiting and harming: Seana Shiffrin (audit)
Warren Quinn's work: Barbara Herman, Gavin Lawrence, and
Michael
Otsuka (audit)