Edward D. Sherline

Associate Professor

UW Recognition:

College of Arts and Sciences "Thumbs-Up Award": 2010

College of Arts and Sciences 2012 Top Ten Teacher. 

College of Arts and Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Advising Award for 1996 and 2000

P.I.E. (Promoting Intellectual Engagement Award): 2019

Wyoming Institute of Humanities Research Fellowship: 2020

 

Biography

B.A. Princeton University 1982; M.A. University of Chicago 1983; Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago 1990;

Head of the Department of Philosophy 2002;

Associate Professor of Philosophy 1996, 1989.

Courses most recently taught:

• PHIL 1000, Introduction to Philosophy

• PHIL 2300, Bioethics

• PHIL 3933, African Philosophy

• PHIL 3250, Global Justice

• PHIL 3300, Ethical Theory

• PHIL 3350, History of Moral Philosophy

• PHIL 4300, Topics in Ethics

Seminars taught:

• Stephen Darwall, The Second Person Standpoint

• The moral philosophy of Thomas Scanlon

• Contemporary metaethics

• Derek Parfit, Climbing the Mountain

• Value, the good, well-being

• Practical reason

• Liberalism, Neutrality and Perfectionism

• Meta-normative theories

• Normativity

• Moral objectivity, motivation and normativity; recent work by Michael Smith and Christine Korsgaard

• Between Belief and Non-Belief

• The Philosophy of Richard Rorty

• The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of Elizabeth Anderson

• The Moral and Political Philosophy of Bernard Williams

• Kant's Critical Philosophy After the 1st Critique