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Nathan Adams
Curriculum Vitae
Philosophy Department · Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
229 Major Williams Hall (0126) · 220 Stanger Street · Blacksburg, VA 24061
Cell: (314) 614-4145 · Office: (540) 231-2186
[email protected]
Academic Positions
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Philosophy Department
Visiting Assistant Professor (2014-present)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Cluster of Excellence, Normative Orders
Visiting Researcher in International Political Theory (Spring 2014)
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy
Washington University in St. Louis (2014)
M.A.
Philosophy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2008)
B.A.
Biochemistry
Spring Arbor University (2004)
Areas of Specialization and Competence
AOS: social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, normative ethics, applied ethics
AOC: history of ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, action theory, epistemology
Fellowships and Awards
Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis (2013-14)
Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (2012-13)
Helen Stenner Graduate Essay Prize in Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, for
“Minimal Responsibility and Supreme Emergencies” (2011)
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Conferences and Presentations
“No Justice, No Peace”, Clean Trade in Natural Resources: Workshop with Leif Wenar,
Goethe University Frankfurt, Excellence Cluster (2014)
Commenter on “Public Equality and Democratic Legitimacy”, American Philosophical
Association Pacific Division Meeting (2014)
“Political Authority as Public Expertise”, Political Theory Workshop: Workshop on Politics,
Economy, and Society (WPES), Washington University in St. Louis (2013)
“Can Epistemic Authority Be Moral Authority?”, Washington University in St. Louis
Philosophy Research Symposium (2013)
“Authority and Content-Independence”, WPES, Washington University in St. Louis (2012)
“Kant and Republican Freedom”, Washington University in St. Louis Philosophy
Research Symposium (2012)
Invited Participant to Liberty Fund Seminar in International Justice and Property (2011)
Discussant on “Doing Without Love: Taking, Not Making, the Best of Patriotism”, WPES,
Washington University in St. Louis (2011)
Discussant on “Fair Play, Political Obligation and Punishment”, WPES (2009)
Teaching
PHIL 1304
PHIL 3314
PHIL 4334
U22 131
U22 234
PHIL 2304
PHIL 235
PHIL 233
PHIL 131
PHIL 306
PHIL 340
PHIL 100
PHIL 2304
PHIL 1304
PHIL 1204
Morality and Justice
Ethical Theory
Jurisprudence
Present Moral Problems
Business Ethics
Global Ethics (online)
Intro to Environmental Ethics
Biomedical Ethics
Present Moral Problems
Philosophy of Language
Social and Political Philosophy
Intro to Logic and Critical Analysis
Global Ethics (online)
Morality and Justice
Knowledge and Reality
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Professional and Departmental Service
President, Washington University in St. Louis Philosophy Graduate Student Association
(2013, 2011)
Reviewer, International Criminal Law Review (2013)
Assistant to the Directors, NEH Summer Seminar in Liberty, Equality, and Justice (2012)
Organizer, Washington University in St. Louis Ethics Reading Group (2011)
Assistant to the Directors, NEH Summer Seminar in International Justice (2010)
Dissertation
Title: Evidential Modern Political Authority
Committee: Christopher Heath Wellman (chair), Julia Driver, Eric Brown
Defended: March 26, 2014
Abstract: Under what conditions can a government justifiably punish citizens for
disobeying its laws? Most philosophers today think that the government has the
moral authority to impose laws only if the citizens actually consent. This amounts to
philosophical anarchism because no extant government meets this condition. But
we can provide conditions for justifiable punishment and the authority of
governments without appealing to moral obligation. I focus on what people may be
blamed for doing, and I argue that when the government has trustworthy expertise,
it can issue laws that citizens may be justifiably punished for disobeying. This
condition, unlike actual consent, can be met.
References
Christopher Heath Wellman
contact:
Julia Driver
Mindy Danner
[email protected]
Eric Brown
Claude Evans (teaching reference)
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