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Dr. Christopher Caldwell

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Colson 101K

Phone: (804) 524-5767
email: ccaldwell@vsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, 2004, University of Kansas
M.A., Philosophy, 1999, University of Kansas
B.A., Philosophy, 1996, Oklahoma State University

Research Areas

Ethics and Applied Ethics

Courses Taught

GEPI 140 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 180 Critical Thinking
PHIL 213 History of Philosophy
PHIL 290 Business Ethics
PHIL 314 Philosophy of Religion

Selected Publications

“A Priori Claims, Self-Evidence, and Moral Naturalism” The Reasoner, Vol. 3, No. 2, February, 2009.

Review of Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics, by David Copp, in Polish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. III, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 127-131.

“The Social Requirement and Human Perfection: Alfarabi and MacIntyre” Journal of Chinese, Indian, and Islamic Cultural Relations, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008.

"Secular Ethical Principles and Religious Beliefs.” Proceedings of the Midwest Ethics Society, Spring 2007.

“Learning from Business Ethics.” Journal of College and Character, Vol. VI, No. 7, October 2005.

“Humean Agency of the Just Person.” Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 17 No. 1, January 2001.

Selected Presentations

“Poverty, Autonomy, and Biomedical Research: Unnoticed Collective Violence” at the Conference on Human Rights, International Law and Collective Violence in Elkins, WV, April 2009.

“Human Subject Research: Biomedicine, Poverty, and Morality” at the Virginia Social Science Association Conference, Petersburg, VA, March 2009.

“Environmentalism: I More than Others” at the Wesleyan Philosophical Society Meeting in Anderson, IN, March 2009.

“Human Perfection and the Social Requirement: Alfarabi and MacIntyre” at Theory,Practice, and Tradition: Human Rationality in the Pursuit of the Good Life held by the International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy in St. Meinrad, IN, July-August, 2008.

“Energy Lifestyle: The Moral Significance of Daily Choices” at the Energy and Responsibility Conference in Knoxville, TN, April 2008.

“An Improved View of Applied Ethics” at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis, TN, February 2008.

“Secular Ethical Principles and Religious Beliefs” at the Midwest Ethics Society in Columbia, MO, April 2007.

“One Source of Motivation for Ethical Pluralism” at the Conference on Value Inquiry at the University of North Dakota, April 2003.

“Humean Agency of the Just Person” at the Southwestern Philosophical Society at the University of Texas, November 2000.

“On the Elimination of Privacy” at the Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference at Washburn University, October 2000