JG CV - 6
JG CV - 6
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, University of Central Oklahoma 2022-present
Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma 2017-2022
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma 2016-17
Assistant Instructor, St. Edward’s University 2015-16
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin 2014-16
RESEARCH
AoS: Ancient Philosophy, Normative Epistemology
AoC: Ethics (Meta-, Normative, Applied); Ancient Greek Language
EDUCATION
PhD, Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin 2016
Dissertation: Divinity and Humanity in Aristotle’s Ethics
MA, Classics, University of Texas at Austin 2014
Thesis: Health and Harmony: Eryximachus on the Science of Eros
MA, Philosophy, Texas Tech University 2010
Thesis: Man Pain & Mollusc Pain: Multiple Realization as an Empirical Hypothesis
Certificate: Ethics
AB, Philosophy (Honors Tutorial College), Ohio University 2008
BA, Classical Civilization (Arts and Sciences), Ohio University 2008
Minors: Anthropology, Greek, World Religions
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
“Pyrrho” [FC]
Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition
“The First City and First Soul in Plato’s Republic” 2021
Rhizomata 9.1:50-83. [LINK]
“Was Pyrrho a Pyrrhonist?” 2017
Apeiron 50:335-365 [LINK]
“Melody and Rhythm at Plato’s Symposium 187d2” 2015
Classical Philology 110:152-158 [LINK]
"The Underlying Argument of Aristotle's Metaphysics Z.3" 2014
Phronesis 59:321-342 [LINK]
1/5
SOTL PUBLICATIONS
“Online Discussion Boards that Students Don't Hate” [2023]
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 8
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“Recalcitrant Beliefs and Pyrrhonian Skepticism” [2023]
Southwest Philosophical Studies 45
“Recalcitrant Beliefs and Epistemic Akrasia” [2023]
Southwest Philosophy Review 40
“Sealioning: A Case Study in Epistemic Vice” 2022
Southwest Philosophy Review 38.1: 123-134. [LINK]
“Epistemic Goods” 2020
Southwest Philosophy Review 36.1: 187-198. [LINK]
“Metacognition as an Epistemic Virtue” 2019
Southwest Philosophy Review 35.1: 117-129 [LINK]
“Maybe We Should Take Human Rights Seriously: A Reply to Nelson” 2018
Southwest Philosophy Review 34.2:13-16. [LINK]
“Secondary Happiness in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics” 2017
Newsletter for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy 17:20-29
“Practical Nous in Aristotle’s Ethics” 2016
Newsletter for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy 16:11-17
“Self-Love and Self-Sufficiency in the Aristotelian Ethics” 2014
Newsletter for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy 14:33-43
“Liberalism and Political Virtue” 2011
Southwest Philosophical Studies 33:11-19
“Self-Love in the Aristotelian Ethics” 2010
Newsletter for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy 11:12-18
“The Democratic Foundations of Political Liberalism” 2010
Southwest Philosophical Studies 32:69-76
“Protagoras was not a Relativist to Me” 2009
Newsletter for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy 10:8-14
BOOK REVIEWS
“Review of Sally Teague, New Testament Greek: A Reading Course” 2023
Bryn Mawr Classical Review [LINK]
“Review of Marta Jimenez, Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good” 2023
Journal of the History of Philosophy 61:151-152. [LINK]
“Review of Brian C. Riberio, Sextus Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers” 2022
The Review of Metaphysics 76:158-160. [LINK]
“Review of Jason Carter, Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology: The Science of the Soul” 2019
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [LINK]
2/5
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS1
“Recalcitrant Beliefs and Pyrrhonian Skepticism”
New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society 2023
“Prolegomenon to a Post-Pandemic Pedagogy of Place: Some Deweyan Observations”
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 2023
“Recalcitrant Beliefs and Epistemic Akrasia”
Southwest Philosophical Society 2022
“Sealioning: A Case Study in Epistemic Vice”
Southwest Philosophical Society 2021
“Cross-References and the Common Books of Aristotle’s Two Ethics”
*Department Colloquium, University of Cincinnati 2020
“Epistemic Goods”
Southwest Philosophical Society 2019
“The Platonic Soul of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle 2019
“Metacognition as an Epistemic Virtue”
Southwest Philosophical Society 2019
“Honor, Divinity and Eudaimonia in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
Happiness and Ethics in the Aristotelian Tradition, Providence College 2018
“‘Phronēsis’ in the Undisputed Books of the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics”
New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society 2018
“Secondary Happiness in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy @ Central APA 2017
*History of Philosophy Circle, Michigan State University 2016
“Practical nous in Aristotle’s Ethics”
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy @ Eastern APA 2016
Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle 2015
“Self-Love and Self-Sufficiency in the Aristotelian Ethics”
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy @ Society for Classical Studies 2015
Lexington Workshop in Ancient Philosophy 2014
“Divinity and Humanity in the Aristotelian Ethics”
Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle 2013
“Covenants in Hobbes’ State of Nature”
Princeton/Penn/Columbia Graduate Philosophy Conference 2012
Texas Tech University Graduate Philosophy Conference 2012
“Man Pain and Mollusc Pain”
Virginia Tech Graduate Philosophy Conference 2011
Mind, Language, and Knowledge Conference, UT Austin 2011
1
* = invited. All others peer-reviewed.
3/5
“Self-Love in the Aristotelian Ethics”
Pacific Division of the APA 2011
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy @ Central APA 2011
“How Not to Defend Virtue Ethics from Situationism”
University of Oklahoma Graduate Philosophy Conference 2011
Western Michigan Graduate Philosophy Conference 2010
“Protagoras was not a Relativist to Me”
Pacific Division of the APA 2010
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy @ Eastern APA 2009
“Liberalism and Political Virtue”
New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society 2010
“Stark Raving Quasi-realism”
*Texas Tech University Graduate Philosophy Conference 2009
“The Democratic Foundations of Political Liberalism”
New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting 2009
“Problems with an Agent-Based Virtue Ethics”
Western Michigan Graduate Philosophy Conference 2008
“Three Lives in the Eudemian Ethics”
Ohio Philosophical Association 2007
“Moral Pluralism and Moral Realism”
Indiana Philosophical Association 2007
COMMENTS
“Self-Metacognition as a Fundamental Mechanism”
A. Uppal, 73rd New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society, El Paso 2023
“Must We Believe God Has a Son?”
B. Branson, 73rd Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, U. Central OK 2019
“Did Moore Swipe His Open Question Arguments from Plato's Dialogues?”
J. Vessel, 69th New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society, Houston 2018
“We Should Not Take Human Rights So Seriously”
D. Nelson, Southwestern Philosophy Society, Baylor University 2017
“Aristotle on the Voluntariness of Vice””
J. Bard, 40th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, UT Austin 2017
“The Problem of Knowledge Application in Prior Analytics B21”
A. Callard, 38th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, UT Austin 2015
"Rethinking Nous Poietikos in Aristotle’s De Anima 3.5"
K. Scheiter, 37th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Penn/Temple 2014
“Aristotle on the Ease of Philosophy: Protrepticus 6, 40.15–41.2”
M. Walker, 36th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, UT Austin 2013
4/5
“Unstable Substrata: The Ontology of the Secret Doctrine in Plato’s Theaetetus”
C. Buckels, 35th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, UT Austin 2012
“Plato's Tyrant and Korsgaard's Problem of Defective Action”
N. Grigore, Mind, Language, and Knowledge Conference, UT Austin 2012
“Hobbes’s Moral Psychology and His Moral Theory”
J. Olsthoorn, International Hobbes Association @ Eastern APA 2011
5/5
“The State of Teacher Training in Philosophy” [LINK] 2016
"Do we need to coordinate the job market calendar?" [LINK] 2016
"Syllabus Design: An Occasional Series. Part 1: Against Inertia" [LINK] 2016
"Syllabus Design: An Occasional Series. Part 2: What Kind of Class?" [LINK] 2016
"Syllabus Design: An Occasional Series. Part 3: Learning Outcomes" [LINK] 2016
"Syllabus Design: An Occasional Series. Part 4: Learning Outcomes Continued" [LINK] 2017
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Philosophy (x24) Soul & Immortality in Plato (Grad Survey)
Introduction to Ethics (x4) Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (Grad Seminar)
Moral Reasoning (x2) Plato (Ind. Stud.)
Human Nature Plato’s Cratylus (Ind. Stud.)
Social & Political Philosophy (2) Philia in Plato and Aristotle (Ind. Stud.)
Conspiracy Theories & Philosophy Greek Literature: Plato (Ind. Stud.)
Ethical Theory (x2) Greek Literature: Rhetoric (Ind. Stud)
Non-Western Ethics Greek Literature: Herodotus (Ind. Stud.)
Ancient Philosophy (x3) Race in the Greco-Roman World (Ind. Stud.)
Medieval Philosophy (x2) Biblical Greek I (x6)
Ancient Philosophy to Medieval Theology (Ind Stud.) Biblical Greek II (x6)
Philosophy & Humanism New Testament Humanities
Philosophy of Religion New Testament Apocrypha (Ind. Stud.)
AWARDS
Glen Joy Award for Outstanding Paper (NMTX) 2023
Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in Regional University/Community College Teaching [Nom.]2
2022
Faculty Merit Credit Award in Teaching (UCO) 2022
Lifetime Teacher-Scholar (UCO) 2022
Distinguished Teacher-Scholar (UCO) 2019-2022
Vanderford Distinguished Teacher Award (UCO) 2020
Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Liberal Arts (UCO) 2019
New Teacher-Scholar (UCO) 2018
Cogburn Philosophical Essay Prize (UT Austin)3
2014, 2015
2
State-level award from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (one nominee per college/university)
3
Awarded annually by a faculty panel to the best three papers submitted by graduate students in the Philosophy Department.
6/5
Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship (UT Austin) 2010
Houghton Dalrymple Memorial Award4 2010
SERVICE
Referee: Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (x2) 2021-2023
Palgrave-Macmillan 2022
Southwest Philosophical Review 2022
Southern Journal of Philosophy 2021
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (x2) 2020-2022
Ancient Philosophy 2020
History of Philosophy Quarterly 2019
Notre Dame Philosophical Review 2019
Review of Metaphysics 2019
Lexington Press (x2) 2019, 2022
Apeiron (x8) 2015-2019
Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 2018
Journal for the History of Philosophy (x2) 2017-2019
British Journal for the History of Philosophy (x2) 2015-2016
The Monist 2015
University/College
Faculty Senate, UCO 2019-present
Parliamentarian 2022-present
At-large Executive Committee 2022
Faculty Handbook Editorial Board 2021-present
21CPI Advisory Board, UCO 2019-present
Academic Affairs Curriculum Council 2019-present
Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee 2019-present
Liberal Arts Symposium Planning Committee, UCO 2017-2019
Department
Peer Tutor Supervisor 2018-present
Philosophy Club Faculty Advisor 2019-2023
Enrollment, Recruitment, & Retention Committee 2018-present
Hiring Search Committee, UCO (x5) 2018- 2021
Profession
At-large Board Member, Southwest Philosophical Society 2022-2024
American Association of Philosophy Teachers 2021-2024
Awards Committee (2023-2024)
Conference Programming Committee (2021-2024)
Seminar Facilitator Subcommittee (2021-22)
Community Building Subcommittee (2021-22)
Plenary Subcommittee (2021-24)
Theme Subcommittee (2021-22)
Virtual Programming (2023-2024)
APA-AAPT Teaching Hub Co-organizer (Eastern Division) 2021-2023
4
Awarded to best paper submitted by a graduate student or recent PhD. from New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society
7/5
MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association Southwestern Philosophical Society
American Association of Philosophy Teachers New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
REFERENCES
Mark Silcox Stephen A White (dissertation chair)
Professor & Dept. Chair, Humanities & Philosophy Professor, Classics & Philosophy
University of Central Oklahoma University of Texas Austin
405-974-5625 512-475-7457
[email protected] [email protected]
8/5