Peter Westmoreland Philosophy Department (352) 273-1813 University of Florida pwest@ufl.edu 312 Griffin-Floyd Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 Areas of Specialization Early Modern, Continental Philosophy (including Phenomenology & Existentialism) Areas of Competence Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Race Employment 2011- University of Florida Lecturer 2009-11 Green River Community College Adjunct instructor 2009-10 Shoreline Community College Adjunct instructor Education 2010 University of California, Irvine, Ph.D. 2004 The University of Memphis, M.A. 2002 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, B.A. Research Publications The Black-White Binary, Introduction to Philosophy of Race, ed. Nathan Nobis, 2015 (forthcoming) Racism in a Black-White Binary: On the Reaction to Trayvon Martin s Death, UF Law Scholarship Repository: Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations,2014. http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/csrrr_events/10thspringlecture/panels/7/ Rousseau s Descartes: The Rejection of Theoretical Philosophy as First Philosophy British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 21:3 (2013), 529-548. Rousseau s Phenomenological Model for the Co-Constitution of Self and World. In Phenomenology 2010, vol. 5: Selected Essays from North America. Part 1: Phenomenology within Philosophy. Ed. Michael Barber, Lester Embree, and Thomas J. Nenon. Bucharest: Zeta Books / Paris: Arghos-Diffusion, 2010. Under Review Fitting Peoples and Republics Together: Social Values in Rousseau's Republicanism Rousseau s Republics, ed. Chris Bertram Lived Experience of the Left: The Missing Element in Defining Handedness Submitted to Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition
Peter Westmoreland 2 Works in Progress Rousseau s Feelings: Sentiment, Conscience, Reason, and the Grounding of Moral Law Il faut faire peau nueve: Fanon s New Skin and Humanism (Co-authored with Marcus Battle.) Scholarly Presentations Rethinking Fanon on Violence Enthusiasm for Revolution: The 17 th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 2015 Lived Experience of the Left: The Missing Element in Defining Handedness 39 th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2015 Giving Philosophy a Hand University of Florida Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere Fellowship Series, Gainesville, FL, January 2015 Resolving Two Paradoxes in Rousseau s Moral Theory 38 th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2014 Il faut faire peau neuve : Fanon s Bodily Schemas, New Skin, and Humanism, coauthored with Marcus Battle. 52 nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Eugene, OR, October 2013 59th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Stetson University, November 2013 Rousseau s Self-Prescribed Laws of the Heart 18th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Winston-Salem, NC, June 2013 Racism in a Black-White Binary: On the Reaction to Trayvon Martin s Death At Close Range: The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin, Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations 10 th Annual Spring Lecture, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, March 2013 Rousseau on Descartes 37 th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2013 Rousseau and First Philosophy 58 th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, Orlando, FL, November 2012 The Value of Values in Rousseau s Social Theory and Their Grounding 17th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Bristol, UK, July 2011
Peter Westmoreland 3 Rousseau s Natural Normativity First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Seattle University, October 2009 Rousseau s Philosophy of Mind Scientia, University of California, Irvine, April 2009 Honors and Awards Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2015 Rothman Summer Fellowship, Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Chimps, and Brains, Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere, University of Florida, 2015 Faculty Teaching Award nominee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2015, 2014 Online Course Development Award, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UF, 2012 University of Florida (2011- ) Teaching Graduate courses Rousseau s Moral & Political Philosophy Spr 15 Continental seminar: Self-Constitution and Embodiment Fall 12 Honors courses Fanon s Wretched of the Earth Fall 14 Upper division undergraduate courses Continental Philosophy of Art Fall 13 Existentialism As lecture with teaching assistants Fall 13 Humanism/ Anti-humanism Fall 14 Philosophy of Feminism As lecture with teaching assistants Fall15, Fall 14 & co-taught with Jaime Ahlberg Philosophy of Race Fall 15, Spr 15, Spr 14, Spr 13, Fall 12, Spr 12 Rousseau & Early Modern Phil Spr 12 Service courses Contemporary Moral Issues Spr 13, Fall 11 Introduction to Philosophy Capped at 45 students Spr 12, Fall 11 As lecture with teaching assistants Fall 14, Spr 14, Fall 13, Fall 12 Online Fall 15, Sum 15, Sum 13, Sum 12 University of California, Irvine (2010) Introduction to Philosophy
Peter Westmoreland 4 As lecture with teaching assistants Sum 10 Green River Community College (2009-11) Introduction to Philosophy Spr 11, Spr 10, Fall 09 Introduction to Symbolic Logic Spr 11, Win 11, Fall 09 Shoreline Community College (2009-10) Contemporary Moral Problems Fall 10 Introduction to Philosophy Fall 10, Spr 10, Win 10 (2x), Fall 09 Undergraduate Honors Theses Advised Solitary Confinement and Phenomenology (2015) From Ontology to Ethics (2015) Ser Cultos para ser libres: Cuban Artists Philosophical Resistance (2013) White Privilege and Moral Obligation (2013) Rousseau and Enlightenment (2013) Nietzsche and Existentialism (2011) Independent Studies with Graduate Students Obligations from Beliefs and Racial Injustice (2014) Impartiality in Feminist Epistemology (2013) Phenomenology of Time Consciousness (2012) Alcoff on Procedural and Substantive Rationality (2012) Fanon and the Colonist (2012) Service and Professionalization Committees Philosophy Department Diversity Committee (chair) (2015-) LGBT Concerns Committee (2013-) Faculty Senate Nominating Committee (2013-) Faculty Dialogues on Race (2013-4) Philosophy Department Undergraduate Committee (2011-5) Refereeing Book referee for Routledge (2014) Book referee for OUP (2014, 2012, 2011) Florida Philosophical Association Conference submissions referee (2012) Department Improvement Continental Philosophy Reading Group (founder and facilitator, 2011-) Advanced Training for Teaching Assistants in Philosophy (workshop creator and facilitator, 2012, 2013) Service Talks GPA Tyranny: The Case for Uncoupling Academic Performance from Scholarships University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, March 2015
Peter Westmoreland 5 Moral Facts and Opinions: Comments on Ralph Ellis Moral Hermeneutics, Coherence Epistemology, and the Role of Emotion 39 th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, March 2015 Lisbon, 1755: Commentary on Kevin Houser s Levinas, Esau, and the Ethical Offense of Atheism 38 th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February 2014 Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Chimps, and Brains University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, January 2014 Who does Philosophy? And why them? Diversity in the Discipline Food & Talk, the UF Philosophy Department s Annual Welcome Event, Gainesville, FL, November 2013 What Is a Contemporary Moral Problem?: An Overlooked Ontological Question University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, April 2013 The Nietzsche Moustache Controversy University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Society, Gainesville, FL, November 2011 Professional Society Memberships American Philosophical Association (APA), California Phenomenology Circle (CPC), Florida Philosophical Association (FPA), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Rousseau Association