Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1996, Philosophy.
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1993, Philosophy.
B.A., Houghton College, Houghton, New York, 1985, Philosophy.
Email:
dshoemak@tulane.edu
Office:
Newcomb 113
Phone:
(504) 862-3393
Academic Interests:
- Personal Identity and Ethics
- Agency, Autonomy, and Moral Responsibility
- Social & Political Philosophy
- Applied Ethics/Biomedical Ethics
- Moral Psychology
Books:
- Knowledge, Nature, and Norms: An Introduction to Philosophy, a text and reader written and edited with Mark Timmons (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009).
- Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, (Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 2009).
Selected Articles:
- "Insanity, Responsibility, and the Deep Self: The Case of JoJo," co-authored with David Faraci, forthcoming in a special issue on experimental philosophy (edited by Joshua Knobe, Edouard Machery, and Tania Lombrozo) of the European Review of Philosophy).
- "Responsibility and Disability," forthcoming in Metaphilosophy and Blackwell collection on cognitive disability and ethics.
- "The Insignificance of Personal Identity for Bioethics," forthcoming in Bioethics.
- "Self-Exposure and Exposure of the Self: Informational Privacy and the Presentation of Identity," Ethics and Information Technology (on-line version published April 2009).
- "Personal Identity and Ethics," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (March 2008), Edward N. Zalta, ed., URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-ethics/. (This version has been substantially updated from the original 2005 entry. Over 60% of the original text was heavily revised, and approximately 50% completely new material was added. The entry now consists in about 60 manuscript pages.)
- "Moral Address, Moral Responsibility, and the Boundaries of the Moral Community," Ethics 118 (October 2007): 70-108.
- "Personal Identity and Practical Concerns," Mind 116 (April 2007): 317-357.
