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Jeremy Randel Koons Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION PhD, with distinction, Philosophy Georgetown University, December 1998 Hampden-Sydney College, May 1994
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION * Ethical Theory
AREAS OF COMPETENCE * Philosophy of Mind
ACADEMIC POSITIONS VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2008-present ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Department of Philosophy, Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, 2007-2008 VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong University, Spring 2007 CHAIR Philosophy Department, American University of Beirut, 2005-2006 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Philosophy Department, American University of Beirut, 2004-2008 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Philosophy Department, American University of Beirut, 2000-2004 INSTRUCTOR Philosophy Department, Auburn University, 1999-2000 ADJUNCT FACULTY Philosophy Department, Georgetown University, Spring 1999 DAVIS TEACHING FELLOW Philosophy Department, Georgetown University, 1998-99 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT Philosophy Department, Georgetown University, 1994-98
PUBLICATIONS Book Pragmatic Reasons: A Defense of Morality and Epistemology (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Articles "Natural Evil as a Test of Faith in the Abrahamic Traditions," forthcoming in Sophia.
"Conservatism, Basic Beliefs and the Diachronic and Social Nature of Epistemic Justification," Episteme 2:3 (October 2006).
"An Argument Against Reduction in Morality and Epistemology," Philosophical Investigations 29:3 (July 2006).
"Sellars, Givenness, and Epistemic Priority," in Michael P. Wolf and Mark Norris Lance (eds.), The Self-Correcting Enterprise: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science and the Humanities (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006).
"Disenchanting the World: McDowell, Sellars, and Rational Constraint by Perception," Journal of Philosophical Research 29 (2004)
"Why Response-Dependence Theories of Morality are False," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6:3 (September 2003)
"Consensus and Excellence of Reasons," Journal of Philosophical Research 28 (2003)
"How to Avoid the Twin Perils of Anti-Empiricism and the Given," Perspectives on Coherentism, Yves Bouchard, ed., (Éditions du Scribe, 2002)
"Is Hard Determinism a Form of Compatibilism?" The Philosophical Forum 33:1 (March 2002)
"Emotions and Incommensurable Moral Concepts," Philosophy 76:4 (October 2001)
"Do Normative Facts Need to Explain?" in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81:3 (September 2000)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "Sellars, Givenness, and Epistemic Priority" Open sessions, Joint Meeting of the Mind and Aristotelian Societies Southampton, UK July 7-9, 2006 "Does the Moral Motivation Debate Rest on a Mistake?" 5th European Congress for Analytic Epistemology Lisbon, Portugal August 27-31, 2005 "An Argument Against Reduction in Morality" British Society for Ethical Theory 2005 Conference Leeds, UK July 11-13, 2005 "Strategic Cooperative Rationality and Moral Evaluation" 32nd Conference on Value Inquiry Baton Rouge, Louisiana April 8-10, 2005 "Reduction Fails in Morality and Epistemology" Society for Exact Philosophy College Park, Maryland May 13-16, 2004 "Reconciling Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology" Society for Exact Philosophy St. Louis, Missouri May 23-26, 2002 "How to Avoid the Twin Perils of Anti-Empiricism and the Given" Symposium on Coherentism in Epistemology Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 28-29, 2001 "Response-Dependence in Morality: Scary, Tame, or Just False?" Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference Hobart, Tasmania, Australia July 1-6, 2001 "Belief-Ascription and Analyticity" "Do Normative Facts Need to Explain?"
MANUSCRIPTS "Why Doesn’t God Command the Torture of Innocents?" "The Given Revived?"
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS HEWLETT FOUNDATION RESEARCH LEAVE GRANT spring semester 2004 MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH GRANT summer 2002 SHORT-TERM FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANT University Research Board, American University of Beirut; July 2001, September 2001, May 2002, May 2004, April 2005 DAVIS TEACHING FELLOWSHIP awarded by the Georgetown Graduate School to those students most likely to be outstanding undergraduate teachers, 1998-99 TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP Georgetown University, 1994-98 PHI BETA KAPPA Hampden-Sydney College, 1994 MADISON SCHOLARSHIP Hampden-Sydney College's single full scholarship, awarded annually to outstanding incoming freshman, 1990-94
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PROFESSION CHAIR Academic Services Advisory Board, Georgetown University SFS-Q, 2008-present MEMBER Honor Council, Georgetown University SFS-Q, 2008-present MEMBER Academic Advisory Committee, Georgetown University SFS-Q, 2008-present MEMBER Academic Freedom and Responsibilities Committee, Georgetown University SFS-Q, 2008-present MEMBER Culture and Politics Curricular Group, Georgetown University SFS-Q, 2008-present CHAIR, STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, American University of Beirut, 2005-2006 CHAIR, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMMITTEE, American University of Beirut, 2004-05 UNIVERSITY SENATE, American University of Beirut, elected member, 2003-2006 SECRETARY, University Senate, 2003-2006 SENATE STEERING COMMITTEE, University Senate, secretary and ex officio member, 2003-2006 FACULTY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, University Senate, elected member, 2003-2006 INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (research ethics committee, American University of Beirut), 2002-2006 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, elected member 2002-04 CURRICULUM COMMITTEE, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, elected member, 2001-03 FRESHMAN ADVISOR, American University of Beirut, 2002-2006 DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES Department of Philosophy WADSWORTH PUBLISHING COMPANY Reviewed bioethics textbook "SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY" talk given at International College (preparatory secondary school) REFEREE Philosophy of Science, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Dialectica, Social Sciences Quarterly, Philosophical Quarterly, and Wadsworth Publishing Company
MASTERS THESIS COMMITTEES Hani Hassan, "Dionysus and the Supremacy of Culture over Politics," defended June 2001 (director) Bishr Al-Madani, "Rationality and the Status of Religious Belief," defended February 2002 Sally Kaya, "Political Liberalism and Communitarianism on the Self," defended June 2002 Karim Sadek, "On Capability and the Metric of Equality," defended June 2002
COURSES TAUGHT Graduate Skepticism (Spring 2003) Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2002, Fall 2005) Foundations of Morality (Spring 2002) Twentieth-Century Analytic Epistemology (Fall 2000, Spring 2005)
Undergraduate Applied Philosophy (10 times) Bioethics (3 times) Business Ethics (3 times) Contemporary Culture (twice) Contemporary Theories of Justice Dissent and Rebellion Ethics (6 times) Foundations of Morality Introduction to Philosophy (twice) Metaphysics and Epistemology Political and Social Thought (twice) Topics in Metaphysics
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