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Jeremy Garrett

CV | Courses | Research Interests | Publications | Presentations | Professional Experience

Contact Information
Title
 Dr. Jeremy Garrett
Office
Hours
  • Tuesday: 11-11:50 a.m. & 4:15-5:15 p.m.
  • Thursday: 11-11:50 a.m
E-mail
 garrettj@csus.edu
Office
Phone
 (916) 278-2474
Mailing
Address

California State University, Sacramento
Department of Philosophy
Mendocino Hall #3012
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6033

 

Curriculum Vitae

Jeremy Garrett - Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Courses

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Research Interests

  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Ethical Theory
  • Applied Ethics

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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • “Marriage Unhitched from the State: A Defense,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 23(2), April 2009, pp. 161-80.
  • “History, Tradition, and the Normative Foundations of Civil Marriage,” The Monist, 91(3&4), July-October 2008, pp. 446-474.

  • “Why the Old Sexual Morality of the New Natural Law Undermines Traditional Marriage,” Social Theory and Practice, 34(4), October 2008, pp. 591-622.

  • "A Prima Facie Case Against Civil Marriage," Southwest Philosophy Review, 25(1), January 2009, pp. 41-53.

  • “Utilitarianism, Vegetarianism, and Human Health: A Response to the Causal Impotence Objection,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24(3), August 2007, pp. 223-237.

Invited Articles:

  • “Public Reasons for Private Vows: A Response to Gilboa”, Public Affairs Quarterly, 23(3), July 2009, pp. 261-73.

  • “Bioethics: Concepts, Conflicts, and Controversies,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 30(3), June 2005, pp. 227-230.
  • “Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty Year Perspective,” (Co-Authors H.T. Engelhardt & Fabrice Jotterand), Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 31(6), December 2006, pp. 565-568.

  • “Fostering Professional Virtue in the Market: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Chinese Health Care Reform,” in Julia Tao, ed., China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market (pp. 169-177). Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publishers, 2008.

Edited Volumes (with Authored or Co-Authored Introductions):

  • The Ethics of Animal Research: In Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Forthcoming, 2010.

  • The Development of Bioethics in the United States. Co-Edited with Fabrice Jotterand & D. Christopher Ralston. Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publishers, Under Contract.

  • Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Co-Edited with H. Tristram Engelhardt. Salem, MA: M&M Scrivener Press, 2008.

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Presentations

SOCIAL, POLITICAL, & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY

  • “A Prima Facie Case Against Civil Marriage”
    • American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (Main Program), Chicago, IL, February 2009
    • 70th Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Kansas City, MO, November 2008
    • 1st Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, August 2008

  • “History, Tradition, and the Normative Foundations of Civil Marriage”
    • American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (Main Program), Chicago, IL, April 2008
    • 5th Annual Association for Political Theory Conference, University of Western Ontario, October 2007

  • “The New Natural Law Argument Against Traditional Marriage”
    • Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Texas A&M University, April 2008

  • “Marriage Unhitched from the State: A Defense”
    • Department of Philosophy & Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, February 2008
    • Department of Philosophy & Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, California State University, Sacramento, February 2008

  • “Cohen on Self-Ownership without Nozickean World-Ownership”
    • Association for Liberty, Philosophy, and Society, 2004 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2004
    • 21st International Social Philosophy Conference, Creighton University, July 2004
    • Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Baylor University, October 2003

  • “Why I Can Never Own ‘The Last Supper’: Lockean Property and Artistic Creation”
    • 5th Annual Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, University of Notre Dame, November 2004

  • “Leibniz on Insensible Perceptions and Good Politics”
    • 31st Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, University of North Dakota, April 2003
    • 27th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2003

  • “John Rawls and the Problems of Priority, Property, and Determinacy”
    • 5th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho, April 2002
    • 6th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, University of North Florida, March 2002
    • 4th Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference, University of Colorado, February 2002

ETHICAL THEORY & MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

  • “Reevaluating Mill’s Argument for the Intrinsic Superiority of Higher Pleasures”
    • International Society for Utilitarian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, September 2008

  • “Situationism and Normative Competence”
    • 33rd Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, Louisiana State University, April 2005
    • 29th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2005

  • “Valuing as Non-Arbitrary Higher-Order Desiring”
    • 2004 North Texas Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Dallas, April 2004

  • “Dispositional Theories of Value and the Level Arbitrariness Problem”
    • 28th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2004

APPLIED ETHICS

  • “Is There a Public Conception of Health and Disease? Political Liberalism and the Philosophy of Medicine” (Co-Author Philip Robichaud)
    • XXth European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine & Health Care, House of Sciences, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006

  •  “Utilitarianism, Vegetarianism, and Human Health: A Response to the Causal Impotence Objection”
    • Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, 2006 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2006
    • 30th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2006
    • International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Dartmouth College, August 2005

  • “Moral Partiality and Animal Experimentation”
    • Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, 2005 American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2005
    • University of Texas at San Antonio Philosophy Symposium, November 2004

  • “Scaling the Utilitarian Argument for Moral Vegetarianism”
    • Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, 2004 American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2004
    • Fifty-Fifth Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, October 2003
    • University of Texas at San Antonio Philosophy Symposium, October 2003

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Professional Experience and Service

  • Reviewer/Referee
    • Oxford University Press, 2008, 2010
    • Springer Academic Press, 2009
    • Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
    • Public Affairs Quarterly, 2008
    • Social Theory and Practice, 2010

  • Review Board, Philosopher’s Digest, Spring 2009 – Present

  • Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Fall 2008 - Present

  • Senior Managing Editor, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Spring 2005 - Summer 2007

  • Managing Editor, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Fall 2004 - Spring 2005; Fall 2007 - Summer 2008

  • Assistant Managing Editor, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Summer 2003 - Summer 2004

  • Editorial Board, Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare, and Ethics, Summer 2009 – Present

  • Alternate Member, Institutional Review Committee, Sutter Health Central Area, November 2008-Present

Last updated: 01/25/2010