Contact Information
Name: Garret Merriam
Title: Assistant Professor
Office Location: Mendocino 3028
Email: merriam@csus.edu
Office Phone: 916-278-7588
Mailing Address: 6000 J street
Office Hours: TuTh 10:30am-11:45am (& by appointment)
Zoom Link (for Office Hours) : https://csus.zoom.us/j/9197580567
Courses Taught in Fall 2024
Phil.2: Ethics (Distance Learning, Asynchronous) (Syllabus) (Reading List)
Phil.105: Bioethics (Syllabus) (Reading List)
Publications
1) “The Dilemma of Domestic Fascism” in Peace and Hope In Dark Times (Philosophy of Peace Series), Andrew Fiala and Sahar Heydarifard (Eds.) (Forthcoming)
2) “The Paradox of Innocence: Why Abolishing the Death Penalty May Increase Miscarriages of Justice.” Criminal Justice Ethics (2021)
3) "If A.I. Only Had a Heart: Why Artificial Intelligence Research Needs to Take Emotions More Seriously" Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (2021)
4) “Nietzsche and Roland’s Eternal Recurrence”, in Stephen King and Philosophy, Jacob Held (Ed.), Rowman and Littlefield (2016)
5) “Virtue, Vice and Vivisection”, in The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy. Jeremy R. Garrett (Ed), The MIT Press (2012).
6) “Can We Rationally Reject Belief in Free Will? Kaposy on Neuroscience and the Commitments of Reason” (with Geoff Childers). The American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience (2010)
7) “Rehabilitating Aristotle: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Disability and Human Flourishing”, in Philosophical Reflections on Disability. (Philosophy and Medicine Series.) D. Christopher Ralston & Justin T. Ho (Eds.), Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer: (2010)
8) “Virtue in Vitro: Virtue Ethics as an Alternative to Questions of Moral Status” (with Justin Ho), in King-Tak Ip (Ed.),The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine. (Philosophy and Medicine Series) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer: (2009)