Marcus Hedahl
Department of Leadership, Ethics, Law
United States Naval Academy
Luce Hall (Mail Stop 7-B)
112 Cooper Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5022
Department of Leadership, Ethics, Law
United States Naval Academy
Luce Hall (Mail Stop 7-B)
112 Cooper Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5022
Areas of Specialization, Areas of Competence
AOS: Applied Ethics, Ethics, Metaethics
AOC: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Education
Ph.D., 2013, Georgetown University, Philosophy, Dissertation: Owing it to Us
M.A., 2000, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Philosophy, Thesis: Hybrid Theories of Distributive Justice
B.S., 1995, University of Notre Dame, Physics
Academic Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics, & Law, United States Naval Academy, 2018 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics, & Law, United States Naval Academy, 2014 - 2018
Dahrendorf Research Officer, Grantham Research Center for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013-2014
Teaching Associate, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 2008-2013
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 2006-2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, 2002-2004
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, 2000-2002
Awards and Fellowships
Stockdale Center Fellow, Sponsored by USNA Class of 1962, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy,2019-2020
Admiral Jay Johnson Professor, United States Naval Academy,2018-2019
Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, London School of Economics & Political Science, 2013-2014
Environmental Justice Fellowship, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, 2012-2013
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2011-2012
School of Foreign Service Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2007
Defense Meritorious Service Medal, 2006
Outstanding Air Force Academy Educator, 2004
Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, 2004
Air Force Commendation Medal, 1999
Joint Achievement Medal, 1998
NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar, 1994-1995
Peer Reviewed Academic Publications
Fruh, Kyle & Hedahl, Marcus “Climate Change is Unjust War: Geoengineering and the Rising Tides of War,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 57, Issue 3, September 2019.
Hedahl, Marcus & Huebner, Bryce “Sharing Values,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 56, No. 2, June, 2018.
Hedahl, Marcus & Rieder, Travis, “Don’t Feed the Trolls: Bold climate action in a new, golden age of denialism,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, “Special Edition on 2016 Election,” July 2017.
Hedahl, Marcus; Clark, Scott; & Biggins, Michael, “The Changing Nature of the Just War Tradition: How our changing environment ought to change the foundations of just war theory,” Public Integrity, Vol. 19, No. 5, April 2017.
Hedahl, Marcus. “Collective Directionality: A New Possibility for Collectives as Objects of Normative Consideration,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 2, September, 2016.
Huebner, Bryce & Hedahl, Marcus, “Shared Values, Interests, and Desires,” in The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic (Ed.), New York: Routledge Press, 2016.
Hedahl, Marcus, Fruh, Kyle, & Whitlow, Lindsay, “Climate Change Mitigation” in The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, Ben Hale & Andrew Light (Ed.), New York:
Routledge Press, 2016.
Creutzig, Felix; Hedahl, Marcus; Rydge, James; & Szulecki, Kacper, “Challenging the European Climate Debate: Can Universal Climate Justice and Economics be Reconciled
with Particularistic Politics?” Global Policy, 5: 6–14, October, 2014.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Directional Climate Justice: The normative relationship between moral claim rights and directed obligations,” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment,
Vol. 5, No. 2, June, 2014.
— Reprinted in Choosing a Future: Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change. Anna Grear & Conor Gearty (Ed.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Press: 2014.
Fruh, Kyle & Hedahl, Marcus, “Coping with climate change: What justice demands of surfers, Mormons, and the rest of us,” Ethics, Policy, and the Environment, Vol. 6, No. 3,
December, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “The significance of a duty’s direction: Claiming priority rather than prioritizing claims,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “The Collective Fallacy: The possibility of irreducibly collective action without corresponding collective moral responsibility,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
Vol. 43, No. 3, September, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Unaccountable: The current state of private military and security companies,” Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 31, No 3, November, 2012.
Soule, Edward; Hedahl, Marcus; & Dienhart, John, “Principles of managerial moral responsibility,” Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, October, 2009.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Blood and Blackwaters: A call to arms for the profession of arms,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, March, 2009.
Hedahl, Marcus, & Wilmoth, Richard, “Comparisons of the Maxwell and CLL gas/surface interaction models using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method,” NASA
Trade Manual, N96-16264/9, December, 1995.
Encyclopedia Entries & Book Reviews
Hedahl, Marcus, "Review of Darrel Moellendorf's, The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy," in Social Theory and Practice, 2015.
Hedahl, Marcus & Rieder, Travis, “Accountability,” Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, Sage Publications, 2014.
Huebner, Bryce & Hedahl, Marcus, “Collective Values,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sage Publications, 2013.
Policy Articles
How The Wrongs of Climate Change Are Compounded,” Daily Nous, December 8, 2015. http://dailynous.com/2015/12/08/philosophers-on-climate-change/
“Collective Duties to Future Generations,” What's Wrong? The not quite official blog of CU-Boulder's Center for Values and Social Policy, August 15, 2015.
http://whatswrongcvsp.com/2015/08/15/collective-duties-to-future-generations/#more-183
“We are not ready for Climate Refugees” [in German],Die Ziet, Berlin, November 16, 2013.
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2013-11/klimawandel-erster-klimafluechtling.
“Climate change requires us to do more, just not more of the same” [in Polish], Kultura Liberalna, Warsaw, November 12, 2013.
http://kulturaliberalna.pl/2013/11/12/nickles-hedahl-proninska-witoszek-szwed-po-co-polsce-szczyt-klimatyczny/.
“Those parts of the world which will be most affected by climate change must be allowed to participate fully in attempts to manage it,” Dahrendorf Symposium,
European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, London, August 31, 2013, http://bit.ly/19KiF78.
“Moving from the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ to ‘equitable access to sustainable development’ will aid international climate change
negotiations,” Dahrendorf Symposium, European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, October 2, 2013, http://bit.ly/1bcTR8w.
Refereed Academic Presentations
“Stemming The Rising Tides of War: Just War Theory and the Coming Climate Wars,” The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, Naval Postgraduate School,
October 2015.
“Owing it to Us: How directed duties can inform collective responsibility for future generations,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Bolder, August 2015.
“Collective Cats: Joint Actors that Lack the Full-fledged Moral Agency of their Members,” Collective Intentionality IX, University of Indiana, Bloomington, September 2014.
“The Collective Fallacy,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Eastern APA, December 2012.
“---” European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2012.
“What your Facebook page and medical records can tell us about human rights: A priority theory of claim rights applied to information rights,” The 9th Annual Information
Ethics Roundtable—Conference on Information Rights as Human Rights, University of Arizona, April 2011.
“Coping with climate change: What justice demands of Mormons, surfers, and the rest of us,” with Kyle Fruh, 36th Conference on Value Inquiry: Wrongdoing & its Consequences,
Southern Illinois University, April 2010.
“What we do together: A theoretical foundation justifying individual responsibility for harms due to climate change,” Climate Change: International Conference on Politics,
Policy, and Justice, Bern University, Switzerland, August 2009.
“The penumbra of war and peace: Jus in bello considerations in the global war on terror, policing actions, and peacetime reprisals,” International Jus in Bello Conference, Hull
University, United Kingdom, September 2004.
“Stop calling it the War on Terror: An argument for moral clarity,” Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics XXIV, Washington, D.C., January 2003.
“The Washington Post test: Integrity’s last stand,” Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics XXIII, Washington D.C., January 2002—Cited as central element of New York
Times “To Obey or Not to Obey Orders” January 2002 and Eric Aldmen’s What Liberal Media? 2003.
“A contextual solution to the sorites paradox,” Wisconsin Philosophical Association, April 2000.
Invited Presentations
“The Individualist Analogy in The Just War Tradition,” McCain Conference: Teaching the Western Just War Tradition, U.S. Naval Academy, April 2015.
“Collective Agent / Collective Cat: Collective moral agency as a feature of actions rather actors,” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of Southern Illinois-
Edwardsville, March 2015.
“Climate Justice” The Fifth Annual Triangle Law and Economics Conference—Rethinking Regulation and Reform: Behavioral Economics and the Regulatory State, Durham, NC, March
2014.
“Equitable Access to Sustainable Development” Working Group on Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change [with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland & former UN
Commissioner on Human Rights; Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University; and Anna Grear, Founder of Global Network for the Study of Human Rights
and the Environment] Dahrendorf Symposium on Climate Change: Changing the Debate, Berlin, Germany, November 2013.
“Climate Change: Reconsidering the duties owed to those most harmed in an era of adaptation” Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, Dublin, Ireland, September
2013.
“Unaccountable: The current state of private military and security companies,” Outsourcing Security: Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the Quest for
Accountability, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, October 2011.
“The environmental costs of cost-benefit analysis,” Energy Action Coalition, Washington DC, November 2010.
“Vegas card counters, Pascal’s wager, and James’s Will to Believe,” American Thought Seminar, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2003.
“Between Good and Evil: Vagueness and Ethics,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, USAF Academy, CO, March 2002.
Teaching Experience
Introduction to philosophy (Naval Academy)
Philosophy of science (Naval Academy)
Stoic philosophy & leadership (Naval Academy)
Ethics & moral reasoning for the Naval Leader (Naval Academy)
Life/Death/Time/Belief (Georgetown)
The Stoics, their heroes, & their rivals (Georgetown)
Environmental ethics (Georgetown)
Ethics and climate change (Georgetown)
Eastern & western philosophy: Reasoning, suffering, and the self (Georgetown)
The pursuit of happiness (Georgetown)
Ethics (Air Force Academy)
Critical thinking & Logic (Air Force Academy)
Moral psychology (Air Force Academy)
Professional and Volunteer Activities
Affiliated Faculty, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 2014-present.
Consultant, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Office of Ethics and Compliance, 2012-present.
Referee, Social Theory and Practice, 2013-present.
Referee, Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, 2011-present.
Referee, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2013-present
Referee, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2015-present.
Member, American Philosophical Association, 2009-present.
Volunteer, DC Roller Girls, 2011- 2105.
Volunteer, DC Central Kitchen, 2009- present.
Participant, “Roundtable on scaling-up ambition on climate action through equity and climate justice,” London School of Economics, March, 2014.
Participant, “Delivering Concrete Climate Chance Action: Towards 2015”, Chatman House, Oct, 2013.
Participant, “British Society of Ethical Theory,” University College of London, July, 2013.
Participant, “Limits of Duty Workshop”, Cambridge University, June, 2013.
Participant, Georgetown University Alternative Spring Break Program (rebuilding homes on Mississippi Coast), 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012.
Participant, “Teaching the Practice of Ethics,” Faculty Enrichment Seminar, New York University, June, 2003.
Participant, “Boot Camp for Professors,” University of Colorado-Denver, July, 2002.
Participant, “Using Cases and Classroom Assessment to Improve Learning and Teaching” Pace University Center for Case Studies in Education, August, 2001.
Other Professional Experience
1995-2006, US Air Force, Terminal Rank: Major.
Chief, Mission Management, Imagery Intelligence Directorate, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
· Lead joint service / contractor team of >1,000; managed annual budget in excess of $300 million
· Delivered billion dollar, next-generation mission management system on time/under budget
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, US Air Force Academy (USAFA)
· Taught 50 Students in Critical Thinking and Logic; 500 Students in Ethics
Lead, Receive Element Integrated Product Team, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
· Led Joint Service Team of nearly 100 responsible for development, installation, and maintenance of 10 World Wide Imagery Receipt Systems
Clearances
Current Top Secret SCI/SI/TK clearances available upon request
AOS: Applied Ethics, Ethics, Metaethics
AOC: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Education
Ph.D., 2013, Georgetown University, Philosophy, Dissertation: Owing it to Us
M.A., 2000, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Philosophy, Thesis: Hybrid Theories of Distributive Justice
B.S., 1995, University of Notre Dame, Physics
Academic Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics, & Law, United States Naval Academy, 2018 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics, & Law, United States Naval Academy, 2014 - 2018
Dahrendorf Research Officer, Grantham Research Center for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013-2014
Teaching Associate, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 2008-2013
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 2006-2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, 2002-2004
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, 2000-2002
Awards and Fellowships
Stockdale Center Fellow, Sponsored by USNA Class of 1962, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy,2019-2020
Admiral Jay Johnson Professor, United States Naval Academy,2018-2019
Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, London School of Economics & Political Science, 2013-2014
Environmental Justice Fellowship, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, 2012-2013
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2011-2012
School of Foreign Service Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2007
Defense Meritorious Service Medal, 2006
Outstanding Air Force Academy Educator, 2004
Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, 2004
Air Force Commendation Medal, 1999
Joint Achievement Medal, 1998
NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar, 1994-1995
Peer Reviewed Academic Publications
Fruh, Kyle & Hedahl, Marcus “Climate Change is Unjust War: Geoengineering and the Rising Tides of War,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 57, Issue 3, September 2019.
Hedahl, Marcus & Huebner, Bryce “Sharing Values,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 56, No. 2, June, 2018.
Hedahl, Marcus & Rieder, Travis, “Don’t Feed the Trolls: Bold climate action in a new, golden age of denialism,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, “Special Edition on 2016 Election,” July 2017.
Hedahl, Marcus; Clark, Scott; & Biggins, Michael, “The Changing Nature of the Just War Tradition: How our changing environment ought to change the foundations of just war theory,” Public Integrity, Vol. 19, No. 5, April 2017.
Hedahl, Marcus. “Collective Directionality: A New Possibility for Collectives as Objects of Normative Consideration,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 2, September, 2016.
Huebner, Bryce & Hedahl, Marcus, “Shared Values, Interests, and Desires,” in The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic (Ed.), New York: Routledge Press, 2016.
Hedahl, Marcus, Fruh, Kyle, & Whitlow, Lindsay, “Climate Change Mitigation” in The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, Ben Hale & Andrew Light (Ed.), New York:
Routledge Press, 2016.
Creutzig, Felix; Hedahl, Marcus; Rydge, James; & Szulecki, Kacper, “Challenging the European Climate Debate: Can Universal Climate Justice and Economics be Reconciled
with Particularistic Politics?” Global Policy, 5: 6–14, October, 2014.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Directional Climate Justice: The normative relationship between moral claim rights and directed obligations,” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment,
Vol. 5, No. 2, June, 2014.
— Reprinted in Choosing a Future: Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change. Anna Grear & Conor Gearty (Ed.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Press: 2014.
Fruh, Kyle & Hedahl, Marcus, “Coping with climate change: What justice demands of surfers, Mormons, and the rest of us,” Ethics, Policy, and the Environment, Vol. 6, No. 3,
December, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “The significance of a duty’s direction: Claiming priority rather than prioritizing claims,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “The Collective Fallacy: The possibility of irreducibly collective action without corresponding collective moral responsibility,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
Vol. 43, No. 3, September, 2013.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Unaccountable: The current state of private military and security companies,” Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 31, No 3, November, 2012.
Soule, Edward; Hedahl, Marcus; & Dienhart, John, “Principles of managerial moral responsibility,” Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, October, 2009.
Hedahl, Marcus, “Blood and Blackwaters: A call to arms for the profession of arms,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, March, 2009.
Hedahl, Marcus, & Wilmoth, Richard, “Comparisons of the Maxwell and CLL gas/surface interaction models using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method,” NASA
Trade Manual, N96-16264/9, December, 1995.
Encyclopedia Entries & Book Reviews
Hedahl, Marcus, "Review of Darrel Moellendorf's, The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy," in Social Theory and Practice, 2015.
Hedahl, Marcus & Rieder, Travis, “Accountability,” Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, Sage Publications, 2014.
Huebner, Bryce & Hedahl, Marcus, “Collective Values,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sage Publications, 2013.
Policy Articles
How The Wrongs of Climate Change Are Compounded,” Daily Nous, December 8, 2015. http://dailynous.com/2015/12/08/philosophers-on-climate-change/
“Collective Duties to Future Generations,” What's Wrong? The not quite official blog of CU-Boulder's Center for Values and Social Policy, August 15, 2015.
http://whatswrongcvsp.com/2015/08/15/collective-duties-to-future-generations/#more-183
“We are not ready for Climate Refugees” [in German],Die Ziet, Berlin, November 16, 2013.
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2013-11/klimawandel-erster-klimafluechtling.
“Climate change requires us to do more, just not more of the same” [in Polish], Kultura Liberalna, Warsaw, November 12, 2013.
http://kulturaliberalna.pl/2013/11/12/nickles-hedahl-proninska-witoszek-szwed-po-co-polsce-szczyt-klimatyczny/.
“Those parts of the world which will be most affected by climate change must be allowed to participate fully in attempts to manage it,” Dahrendorf Symposium,
European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, London, August 31, 2013, http://bit.ly/19KiF78.
“Moving from the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ to ‘equitable access to sustainable development’ will aid international climate change
negotiations,” Dahrendorf Symposium, European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, October 2, 2013, http://bit.ly/1bcTR8w.
Refereed Academic Presentations
“Stemming The Rising Tides of War: Just War Theory and the Coming Climate Wars,” The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, Naval Postgraduate School,
October 2015.
“Owing it to Us: How directed duties can inform collective responsibility for future generations,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Bolder, August 2015.
“Collective Cats: Joint Actors that Lack the Full-fledged Moral Agency of their Members,” Collective Intentionality IX, University of Indiana, Bloomington, September 2014.
“The Collective Fallacy,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Eastern APA, December 2012.
“---” European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2012.
“What your Facebook page and medical records can tell us about human rights: A priority theory of claim rights applied to information rights,” The 9th Annual Information
Ethics Roundtable—Conference on Information Rights as Human Rights, University of Arizona, April 2011.
“Coping with climate change: What justice demands of Mormons, surfers, and the rest of us,” with Kyle Fruh, 36th Conference on Value Inquiry: Wrongdoing & its Consequences,
Southern Illinois University, April 2010.
“What we do together: A theoretical foundation justifying individual responsibility for harms due to climate change,” Climate Change: International Conference on Politics,
Policy, and Justice, Bern University, Switzerland, August 2009.
“The penumbra of war and peace: Jus in bello considerations in the global war on terror, policing actions, and peacetime reprisals,” International Jus in Bello Conference, Hull
University, United Kingdom, September 2004.
“Stop calling it the War on Terror: An argument for moral clarity,” Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics XXIV, Washington, D.C., January 2003.
“The Washington Post test: Integrity’s last stand,” Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics XXIII, Washington D.C., January 2002—Cited as central element of New York
Times “To Obey or Not to Obey Orders” January 2002 and Eric Aldmen’s What Liberal Media? 2003.
“A contextual solution to the sorites paradox,” Wisconsin Philosophical Association, April 2000.
Invited Presentations
“The Individualist Analogy in The Just War Tradition,” McCain Conference: Teaching the Western Just War Tradition, U.S. Naval Academy, April 2015.
“Collective Agent / Collective Cat: Collective moral agency as a feature of actions rather actors,” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of Southern Illinois-
Edwardsville, March 2015.
“Climate Justice” The Fifth Annual Triangle Law and Economics Conference—Rethinking Regulation and Reform: Behavioral Economics and the Regulatory State, Durham, NC, March
2014.
“Equitable Access to Sustainable Development” Working Group on Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change [with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland & former UN
Commissioner on Human Rights; Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University; and Anna Grear, Founder of Global Network for the Study of Human Rights
and the Environment] Dahrendorf Symposium on Climate Change: Changing the Debate, Berlin, Germany, November 2013.
“Climate Change: Reconsidering the duties owed to those most harmed in an era of adaptation” Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, Dublin, Ireland, September
2013.
“Unaccountable: The current state of private military and security companies,” Outsourcing Security: Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the Quest for
Accountability, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, October 2011.
“The environmental costs of cost-benefit analysis,” Energy Action Coalition, Washington DC, November 2010.
“Vegas card counters, Pascal’s wager, and James’s Will to Believe,” American Thought Seminar, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2003.
“Between Good and Evil: Vagueness and Ethics,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, USAF Academy, CO, March 2002.
Teaching Experience
Introduction to philosophy (Naval Academy)
Philosophy of science (Naval Academy)
Stoic philosophy & leadership (Naval Academy)
Ethics & moral reasoning for the Naval Leader (Naval Academy)
Life/Death/Time/Belief (Georgetown)
The Stoics, their heroes, & their rivals (Georgetown)
Environmental ethics (Georgetown)
Ethics and climate change (Georgetown)
Eastern & western philosophy: Reasoning, suffering, and the self (Georgetown)
The pursuit of happiness (Georgetown)
Ethics (Air Force Academy)
Critical thinking & Logic (Air Force Academy)
Moral psychology (Air Force Academy)
Professional and Volunteer Activities
Affiliated Faculty, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 2014-present.
Consultant, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Office of Ethics and Compliance, 2012-present.
Referee, Social Theory and Practice, 2013-present.
Referee, Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, 2011-present.
Referee, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2013-present
Referee, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2015-present.
Member, American Philosophical Association, 2009-present.
Volunteer, DC Roller Girls, 2011- 2105.
Volunteer, DC Central Kitchen, 2009- present.
Participant, “Roundtable on scaling-up ambition on climate action through equity and climate justice,” London School of Economics, March, 2014.
Participant, “Delivering Concrete Climate Chance Action: Towards 2015”, Chatman House, Oct, 2013.
Participant, “British Society of Ethical Theory,” University College of London, July, 2013.
Participant, “Limits of Duty Workshop”, Cambridge University, June, 2013.
Participant, Georgetown University Alternative Spring Break Program (rebuilding homes on Mississippi Coast), 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012.
Participant, “Teaching the Practice of Ethics,” Faculty Enrichment Seminar, New York University, June, 2003.
Participant, “Boot Camp for Professors,” University of Colorado-Denver, July, 2002.
Participant, “Using Cases and Classroom Assessment to Improve Learning and Teaching” Pace University Center for Case Studies in Education, August, 2001.
Other Professional Experience
1995-2006, US Air Force, Terminal Rank: Major.
Chief, Mission Management, Imagery Intelligence Directorate, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
· Lead joint service / contractor team of >1,000; managed annual budget in excess of $300 million
· Delivered billion dollar, next-generation mission management system on time/under budget
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, US Air Force Academy (USAFA)
· Taught 50 Students in Critical Thinking and Logic; 500 Students in Ethics
Lead, Receive Element Integrated Product Team, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
· Led Joint Service Team of nearly 100 responsible for development, installation, and maintenance of 10 World Wide Imagery Receipt Systems
Clearances
Current Top Secret SCI/SI/TK clearances available upon request