Timothy Weidel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Department Chair of Philosophy

Dr. Weidel works and teaches primarily in social/political philosophy and applied ethics, and also has interests in Marx, Critical Theory, Bioethics, Professional Ethics, and Feminist Ethics. His research focuses on the problem of global poverty and issues...

Dr. Timothy Weidel

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

M.A., Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

B.A., Philosophy, John Carroll University

Courses Taught

PHIL 101: Reasoning

PHIL 193: First Year Seminar: Strangers

PHIL 301: Ethics

PHIL 455: Health Care Ethics

PHIL 462/SOSJ 410: Theories of Solidarity and Social Justice

PHIL 491: Philosophy and Global Poverty

HONS 190: Freshman Honors Colloquium

SOSJ 101: Introduction to Solidarity and Social Justice


Dr. Weidel works and teaches primarily in social/political philosophy and applied ethics, and also has interests in Marx, Critical Theory, Bioethics, Professional Ethics, and Feminist Ethics. His research focuses on the problem of global poverty and issues in global justice, particularly questions of moral motivation and moral psychology. Most recently he is working on the topic of Effective Altruism and whether or not the “Longtermist” version of Effective Altruism can provide sufficient moral motivation for persons to participate. He is also co-editing a collected volume on issues faced by ethicists who work in a variety of contexts.

Articles

Justice for (and by) Philosophers: Professional Ethics and Punishing our Own. Forthcoming in the Journal of Social Philosophy, 2023

Reflecting on the Role of Technology in our Relationship with Nature. Satya Nilayam Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy, 38 (October 2020): 49-64

Laudato Si, Marx, and a Human Motivation for Addressing Climate Change. Environmental Ethics, 41 (1): 17-36, 2019

Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 19 (1): 70-88, 2018

Philanthropy, Cosmopolitanism, and the Benefits of Giving Directly. Journal of Global Ethics, 12 (2): 170-186 2016

Ideology and the Harms of Self-Deception: Why We Should Act to End Poverty. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19 (4): 945-960, 2016

The "Ugliness" of Economic Efficiency: Technology, Species-Being, and Global Poverty. Ethics and Global Politics 8 (December 2015)

Are Human Rights Wrong? Towards a Human-Language Ethic as an Approach to Global Poverty. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 10 (1): 213-223, 2011

Labor. Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Ed. Deen Chatterjee (Springer), 621-624 2011

Books Reviews, Academic Blog Posts

Climate Change and Our Relationship with our Environment. Blog of the American Philosophical Association, 2016

Review of Pablo Gilabert From Global Poverty to Global Equality. Philosophy in Review, 35 (2): 70-72, 2015