Professor Schmidt’s work focuses on the intersection of philosophy and art. His recent research uses Shakespeare to explore the philosophical value of paying attention to medium, genre, and form in the world of art and literature. His work in the...
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Ph.D., Philosophy, Syracuse University
B.A., Philosophy, Wheaton College
PHIL 193: FYS Thinking through Beauty
PHIL 301: Ethics
PHIL 408: Theories of Solidarity and Social Justice
PHIL 450: Happiness
PHIL 475: Philosophy of the Visual Arts
PHIL 487: Doubt
Peer-Reviewed Publications
(w/ Danielle Layne) “Viewing Films as Eikos or Kalos Mythos,” Plato and the Moving Image, Ed. Weinman and Bildermans. Cambridge: Brill. (Forthcoming)
“Pleading the Case: Learning from works of fiction as well as fictional worlds,” Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 11:1 (2017).
“Troubled Trades: Normative incomparability and the challenge of universal markets,” Southwest Philosophy Review 33:1 (2017), 195-203.
“Knowing Fictions: Metalepsis and the Cognitive Value of Fiction,” Res Philosophica 93:2 (2016), pp. 483-506.
“Crossing Over: Rauschenberg, Kafka, and the Boundaries of Imagination,” Aesthetic Investigations 1:2 (2015), pp 214-226.
“Sucking the Sweets of Sweet Philosophy: Shakespeare’s dramatic use of philosophy,” Memoria Di Shakespeare: Journal of Shakespeare Studies (2014), pp. 299-326.
(w/ Michael Pringle) “Re-Thinking Education: Philosophy and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Ethics and Shakespeare,” Voyages Journal of Contemporary Humanism 2 (2013).
“A Virtue Ethics Response to Henley on Hume, Aristotle and the Situationist Challenge,” Southwest Philosophy Review 27:2 (2011), pp. 27-32.
“How to Value the Liberal Arts for Their Own Sake without Intrinsic Values,” Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World 17:2 (2010), pp. 37-47.
“Thresholds, Vagueness, and the Argument from Small Improvements,” Philosophical Studies: Values, Rational Choice, and Agency: New Essays in Moral Psychology 110:1 (2008), pp. 193-206.
Book Reviews
Review of Alexander Nehemas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art, Bryn Mawr Classic Review (2008). [http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2008/2008-03-24.html]
