DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
My research focuses on ethics, Kant, and the philosophy of disability. I regularly teach courses in these areas as well as in political philosophy. I'm the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Philosophy Department. I also serve on the Chancellor's Commission for Disability, and I chair the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Disabled People in the Profession.
Education
My Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before that, I earned a B.Phil at Oxford University where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar. I joined the Department in 2011.
I joined the department in 2012 after completing my dissertation on climate change, human rights, and collective moral responsibility at the University of Oklahoma. I have taught an array of courses across the ethics and political philosophy curriculum at UTK and am passionate about sharing the value philosophy can bring to our everyday lives and its importance in a democratic society. In addition to my teaching, I serve as the Timetable Director for the department and from 2015-2021 served as the Director of the Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl (THSEB). I am currently a member of the National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) Advisory Board, where I serve as chair of the Case Committee. Outside of philosophy, I enjoy supporting Fulham FC and both my hometown Oklahoma Sooners and adopted Tennessee Vols.
Education
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
M.Litt, University of Glasgow
B.A., Wartburg College
Job Titles:
- Deptartment Head
- Professor & Department Head / Education
Job Titles:
- Social Chair / Representative to the Social Committee
Carl Wagner (A.B., Princeton 1965, Ph.D., Duke 1969) is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is co-author with the philosopher Keith Lehrer of the book Rational Consensus in Science and Society (1981), as well as numerous papers on number theory, enumerative combinatorics, probability, and formal epistemology. His research in formal epistemology has been supported by seven grants from the National Science Foundation. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1978-79), a visiting fellow in the departments of philosophy at Princeton (1990) and the University of Arizona (1991), and a fellow at the Center for Logic and the Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University (2008). In 2009 he received the James R. and Nell W. Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee. His Erdos number is 2.
Job Titles:
- Representative to the Graduate Student Senate
I'm an avid naturalist and photographer, with over 8000 specimen images published in various venues. Several hundred are featured in Wikipedia articles.
I'm a member of the Philosophy of Science Association and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.
I'm a US Navy veteran and bone marrow donor.
I have served as Ethics Bowl judge, both at the college and high school levels.
Education
PhD University of Utah (2019), MA Ohio University (2011), BA Wheeling Jesuit University (2006)
David M. Frank is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on values and ethics in environmental sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Texas in 2012 with a dissertation on philosophy of conservation biology. He has since held postdoctoral positions at New York University, the University of North Carolina, and Brown University, developing research collaborations with environmental scientists and teaching courses on environmental ethics, research ethics, and philosophy of science. His current research focuses on philosophical controversies about invasive species and the ethics and economics of the Green New Deal.
Education
P h.D., University of Texas
Education
My Ph.D. is from the University of Texas. Prior to this, I studied at King's College London and at the University of York.
My Ph.D. is from the University of Kansas, my J.D. from Indiana University, and I joined the department in 2000. I am currently Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Political Science. I am also Distinguished Humanities Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.
My Ph.D. is from the University of Notre Dame and I joined the department in 2007
My Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan and I joined the department in 1968.
I graduated with a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and joined the department in August 2007.
Job Titles:
- Retired Associate Professor / Education
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus / Education
My Ph.D. is from the University of Texas. I joined the department as head in the fall of 2000 although I was a faculty member from 1969 to 1975.
My Ph.D. is from Ohio State University and I joined the department in 1978.
Job Titles:
- Professor & Director of Graduate Studies / Education
My Ph.D. is from UCLA, and I did my undergraduate work at Princeton. Before joining the Department here at Tennessee in 2011. I was an assistant professor at Northwestern University and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Retired Associate Professor / Education
My Ph.D. is from Ohio State University and I joined the department in the fall of 1973.
Job Titles:
- Graduate Student Association President
Job Titles:
- Retired Associate Professor / Education
My Ph.D. is from the University of Georgia and I joined the department in 1972.
Current research interests include philosophy and film, medical ethics, and philosophy of teaching
My Ph.D. is from Emory University and I joined the department in 1966.
My Ph.D. is from Northwestern University. I joined the department in the Fall of 1974 after serving as Assistant Professor at Duke University from 1968. I am currently serving in a post-retirement position.
Job Titles:
- Representative to the Dean 's Graduate Student