Advising

UMSL Service 

• Director of Graduate Studies - Philosophy

• Director of Graduate Certificate in Bioethics

Faculty Advisor 

• Minorities and Philosophy (MAP for the Gap International UMSL Chapter)

• Women and Gender Minorities in Philosophy (WGIM or Gender Pals)

• Engaged Philosophy Speaker Series

• Secular Students Association 

• Jewish Student Group 

MA Thesis Advising (UMSL)                                                                             

• Mike Major, “Social Media: On Tech-Caves, Virtual Panopticism, and the Science Fiction-Like State in Which We Unwittingly Find Ourselves,” May 2018

• Benjamin Wisniewski, “Soldier, Officer, Citizen: Applying Just war Theory to Police Use of Force,” 2017

• Ashton Snider, “Heteronormativity and the Ideal Family,” May 2016

• RC Patterson, “Indirect Compelled Doxastic Coercion, Adaptive Preferences, and Rationality,” November 2015

• Garrett Dimond, “Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Locke and the Libertarian Theory of Property,” July 2015

• Lav M. McKittrick-Sweitzer, “The Instability of The Law of Peoples and a Suggested Remedy,” April 2015

• Logan Baseley, “Hate Speech and the Status of Prisoners,” April 2015    

• Andy Bramman, “Rules and Habits,” April 2014

• Jordan Potter, “Purloined Sperm, Victim-Blaming, and Procreative Asymmetry: A Critique of Overall’s Analysis of Prospective Parent Disagreement,” April 2014

M. A. Thesis Committees (UMSL)                                                                          

• Cameron Jackson, "Nietzschean Expressivism," May 2025

• Audra Hazelwood, "On Learning Your Gender: An Essay in Social Epistemology," April 2025

• Katherine Miles, “Combating Systemic Racism With Truth Commissions,” May 2023

• Crystal Brown, “Preservation of Autonomy in Pediatric Decision-Making,” May 2022

• Lindsey Grossheim, “Medical Expertise, Patient Expertise, and Surrogate Decision-Making: The Importance of Co-deliberation in Medical Decision-Making,” May 2021

• Michael Tofte, “Those Thrice Marked by Time: The Significance of the Last Known Survivor, Their Death, and Our Remembrance,” April 2021

• Justin Yee, “Supererogation and Moral Reasons,” April 2020

• Laura Miller, “A Means to an End: Adding Value to the Preference Debate,” November 2019

• Danielle Walker, “The Epistemic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Racism Within the Criminal Justice System,” May 2019

• Tyler Ryan, “Urmson’s Art,” April 2016

• Justin Ormsby, “Four Domains of Knowledge in Education,” July 2015

• Sarah Beach, “Adaptive Preferences Are Not Irrational,” July 2015

• John Simpson, “Environmental Virtue, Callicott, and the Land Ethic,” April 2012

• Jennifer Wilson, “Sustainability and Our Current Food Production System,” December 2013

• Michael Sigler, “On The Necessary Connection Between Law and Ethics: The Ethical Content of Law,” May 2014

Ph.D. Thesis Committees                                                                

• Haley Ringenary, “The Role of Reproductive Autonomy in the Development of the Early Mother-Child Relationship,” UMSL Clinical Psychology Specialty Committee, December 2023

• Cameron Evans, “Oppression and the Limits of Individual Moral Progress,” WashU, May 2021