Chris Meyers
Chris Meyers
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
Core Faculty
Areas of Expertise: Ethical Theory, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Applied Ethics, Public Policy
Areas of Competence: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law
Lower Level & Service Courses:
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Logic
- Contemporary Moral Problems
- Business Ethics
- Health Care Ethics
- Environmental Ethics
Upper Level:
- Ethical Theory
- Political Philosophy
- Wittgenstein/Early Analytic Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind
- Moral Psychology
- Action Theory (Free Will)
- Philosophy of Law
- Ethics of Sex
Directed Readings:
- Epistemology
- Moral Epistemology
- Philosophy of Language
Graduate Level:
- Metaethics
- Philosophy, Law, & Social Policy
- Special Topics in Public Policy: Drugs & Drug Policy
· Drug Legalization—A Philosophical Analysis, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2022.
· A Moral Defense of Homosexuality: Why Every Argument against Gay Rights Fails, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
· The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Debate, Prometheus Books, 2010.
· “Automatic Behavior and Moral Agency: Defending the Moral Concept of Personhood from Empirically Based Skepticism,” Acta Analytica 30 (2015), pp 193-209.
· “Neuroenhancement in Reflective Equilibrium: A Qualified Kantian Defense of Enhancing in Scholarship and Science,” Neuroethics (2014), pp287-298.
· “Brains, Trolleys, and Intuitions: Defending Deontology from the Greene/Singer Argument,” Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming.
· “Hobbes and the Rationality of Self-Preservation: Grounding Morality on the Desires We Should Have,” European Legacy 18 (2013), pp. 269-286.
· “Defending Moral Realism from Empirical Evidence of Disagreement,” Social Theory and Practice 39 (2013), pp 373-396.
· “Expressivism, Constructivism, and the Supervenience of Moral Properties,” Philosophical Explorations 15 (2012), pp 17-33.
· “G.I., Robot: The Ethics of Using Remote Controlled Robots in Combat,” Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (2011), pp 21-36.
· “If I Only had an Essence! Existentialism and The Wizard of Oz,” Midwest Quarterly (2011), pp 95-110.
· “Psychological Investigations: Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument and Inferences in Contemporary Cognitive Science,” with Sara Waller, Synthese 171 (2009), pp 135-156.
· “The Virtue of Cold-Heartedness,” Philosophical Studies 138 (2008), pp 233-244.
Ph.D. Philosophy—Loyola University Chicago (May 2002)
M.A. Philosophy—Loyola University Chicago (May 1994)
B.A. Philosophy—University of Colorado at Denver (May 1991)
B.F.A. Fine Arts—University of Colorado at Denver (May 1991)