Vitae

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Philosophy (Social & Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics), University of Tennessee, August 2011
    • Dissertation: A Rawlsian Case for Public Judgment
      • Director: David Reidy
      • Committee Members: John Hardwig, E. J. Coffman, Otis Stephens
  • M.A. Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 2007
  • B.A. Philosophy & Political Science, University of Tennessee, 2005

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS

  • Presidential Management Fellow
    • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
      • Jan 2012 - pres

  • Senior Research Fellow
    • Squire Family Foundation
      • October 2011 - pres

 

 

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Rocky Top Comedy Contest Finalist
    • October, 2010
  • Graduate Teaching Associate Excellence in Teaching Award for 2008-2009
    • Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, 2009
  • Top Collegiate Scholar
    • College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2005

  • Individual Achievement Ribbon
    • For exemplary service during training exercise, 119th Air Control Squadron, Tennessee Air National Guard, Knoxville, TN, 2000
  • Technician of the Quarter
    • 47th Communications Squadron, Laughlin Air Force Base, TX, 1997

 

 

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Social & Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics



AREAS OF COMPETENCE

  • Ethical Theory
  • Philosophy of Law



PUBLICATIONS

  • Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, New York, 2011.
    • “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
    • “UDHR Rights and Duties: Contrasted and Critiqued”
    • "Public Interest"
  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, 2nd Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen, ed. Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, 2010.
    • “The Race to the Bottom Hypothesis”



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTOR

  • Phil 493: Independent Study (Topic: Social and Political Philosophy – Marx)
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2010
  • Phil 345: Bioethics
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2011
  • Phil 290: Social and Political Philosophy
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2011
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2010
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2009
  • University Honors 267: Introduction to the Howard H. Baker Center, Governance, and Public Policy
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2011
  • Phil 252: Contemporary Moral Issues (Writing Concentration)
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2011
  • Phil 244: Professional Responsibility (Oral Concentration)
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2011
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2010
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2010
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2009
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2009
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2009
  • Phil 243: Business Ethics
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2008
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2007
    • University of Tennessee, Summer 2006
  • Phil 242: Contemporary Moral Issues (Oral Concentration)
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2008
  • Phil 241: Introduction to Philosophy
    • Lee University, Fall 2011
  • Phil 2420: Ethical Theory and Business Application
    • Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Spring 2011
  • Phil 2400: Ethics
    • Walters State Community College, Fall 2011
    • Pellissippi State Community College, Summer 2011
    • Walters State Community College, Spring 2011
    • Walters State Community College, Fall 2010
    • Walters State Community College, Fall 2009
  • Phil 2000: Critical Thinking
    • South College, Summer 2009
    • South College, Spring 2009
    • South College, Winter 2009
    • South College, Summer 2008
  • Phil 1030: Human Nature and Life
    • Walters State Community College, Spring 2011 (on site and online)
    • Walters State Community College, Fall 2010 (online)
    • Walters State Community College, Spring 2010
  • Phil 101: Practical Reasoning
    • Carson-Newman College, Spring 2010

TEACHING ASSISTANT

  • Phil 290: Social and Political Philosophy
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2008
  • Phil 241: Engineering Ethics
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2007
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2007
  • Phil 246: Bioethics
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2006
  • Phil 243: Business Ethics
    • University of Tennessee, Spring 2006
  • Phil 110: Introduction to Philosophy
    • University of Tennessee, Fall 2005

PRE-COLLEGE TEACHING

  • Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking
    • Kids U, Community Outreach for High School Students, University of Tennessee, Summer 2009
  • Public Speaking
    • Kids U, Community Outreach for High School Students, University of Tennessee, Summer 2009

ADDITIONAL UNDERGRADUATE LOWER & UPPER-LEVEL COURSES QUALIFIED TO TEACH

  • Philosophy of Law (upper-level seminar)
  • The Ethics of Belief (lover-level survey)
  • Philosophy of Religion (lower-level survey)
  • Various Histories of Philosophy (lover-level surveys)

 

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Rawls and the Epistemic Obligations of Public Officials"
    • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2011.
  • "The Growth of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl: A Case Study (roundtable discussion)
    • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2011.
  • “The Liberal Principle of Public Motivation”
    • Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2010.
  • “Rawls’s Idea of Public Reason Revisited… Again: Motivation and Legitimacy”
    • St. Louis University Grad Conference: Justice and Public Disagreement: Reasons, Religion, and Value, October 2010.
  • “It’s Never too Early to Talk about Ethics: Creating a National High School Ethics Bowl” (discussion panel)
    • Invited by the Squire Family Foundation, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2010.
  • “A Dilemma for Foley's Accounts of Rational Belief and Responsible Belief” (with E.J. Coffman)
    • Baylor University’s Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, February 2010.
  • “Guns at Work”
    • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting, March 2009.
  • “A Human Right to Keep and Bear Arms”
    • Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2008.



CONFERENCE COMMENTARIES

  • “On Charles Cardwell’s ‘A Brief Inquiry into Organ Donation’”
    • Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2009.
  • “On Kevin Bond’s ‘Intra-professional Conflict of the Military Physician’”
    • Tennessee Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, November 2007.

 

 

WORKSHOPS OVERSEEN

  • “Rawls’s Justice as Fairness Part IV: Institutions of a Just Basic Structure”
    • Book Reading, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, February 2010.
  • “How to Lead Successful Philosophy Discussions: Herding Kants”
    • Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, September 2009.



SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS

  • “The Principle of Public Motivation”
  • “The All-Things-Considered Approach to the Ethics of Belief”
  • “Guns at Work”



PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Second Annual East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl
    • Organizer, University of Tennessee, Jan 2011.
  • "So You Want to Organize a High School Ethics Bowl"
    • Published at PLATO Online of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, 2010.
  • Philosophy for Kids
    • Lead organizer for crew of five philosophy graduate students, based on Thomas Wartenberg’s Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children’s Literature, Inskip Elementary, Knoxville, TN, Fall 2010.
  • First Annual East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl
    • Organizer and host, University of Tennessee, Nov 2009.
  • Blind Reviewer
    • Open Court Publishing, 2009.
  • Active Baker Scholar
    • Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee 2007-pres.
    • Led roundtable discussion on the ethics of abortion for Baker Center learning community, Sept 2009.
  • Volunteer Public Speaking Coach
    • Tennessee School for the Deaf, 2009-2010.



PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • American Philosophical Association
  • Tennessee Philosophical Association
  • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics



REFERENCES

David Reidy

Professor and Head   
Department of Philosophy   
University of Tennessee   
801 McClung Tower   
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480   
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865-974-7210   

John Hardwig

Professor and Head (retired)
Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
801 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480
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865-974-3255

E.J. Coffman

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
801 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480
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865-974-3255

Glenn Graber

Professor   
Department of Philosophy   
University of Tennessee   
801 McClung Tower   
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480   
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865-974-7213   


GRADUATE COURSEWORK

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

  • Rawls, David Reidy
  • Democracy, David Reidy
  • Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel, David Reidy
  • Contemporary Theories of Justice, David Reidy
  • Political Theory, Robert Gorman (Political Science Dept.)

 

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

  • Responsibility and Punishment, David Reidy
  • Independent Study (Topic: Constitutionalism), David Reidy
  • Independent Study (Topic: Hartian Legal Obligation), John Davis

 

ETHICS

  • Markets and Morality, Denis Arnold
  • Feminist Ethics, Betsy Postow
  • End of Life, John Hardwig
  • Contemporary Kantian Ethics, Denis Arnold
  • Ethics and Animals, John Nolt

 

HISTORY

  • Kant’s 1st Critique, Richard Aquila
  • Plato, John Kress

 

EPISTEMOLOGY

  • Independent Study (Topic: Ethics of Belief), EJ Coffman

 

LOGIC

  • Intermediate Formal Logic, John Nolt

 

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

  • Feminist Philosophy of Science, Heather Douglas
  • Science and Public Policy, Heather Douglas

 

OTHER

  • Anthropology of Human Rights, Trish Redker-Hepner (Anthropology Dept.)
  • Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Trish Redeker-Hepner (Anthropology Dept.)



BIO

FAMILY

  • Married 10 years to wife, Lisa
  • 3-year-old son, Justin
  • 3-month-old daughter, Emily
  • German Shepherd, Murdock
  • Doberman, Rico

 

AIR FORCE VETERAN

  • Tennessee Air National Guard, Staff Sergeant, 1998-2004
    • Radio Maintenance Technician
    • Security Forces Augmentee
  • Active Duty, Airman First Class, 1996-1998
    • Radio Maintenance Technician, Laughlin AFB, TX

 

HOBBIES

  • 8 Years Martial Arts Study
    • Kickboxing
    • Jiu Jitsu
  • Occasional Marksmanship Competitions
  • Daddy Stuff
  • Stand-up Comedy