Department of Philosophy

David Shoemaker joined the BGSU Philosophy Department in Fall of 2004 and became Department Chair in 2008. He formerly taught at California State University and received his Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, in 1996. His dissertation was entitled "Persons, Selves, and Ethical Theory."  Since 2009 he has been based at Tulane University in New Orleans, but still retains a connection with Bowling Green as an adjunct faculty member and returns each summer to teach a graduate seminar here.

• About Me and My Work

Areas of Research or Specialization

• Personal Identity and Ethics
• Agency, Autonomy and Moral Responsibility
• Social & Political Philosophy
• Applied Ethics/Bioethics
• Moral Psychology

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1996
  Dissertation: "Persons, Selves, and Ethical Theory"
  Committee: Gary Watson (Chair), Alan Nelson, Andrew Cross
• M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1993
• B.A., Philosophy, Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y., 1985
• Sooner High School (Go Spartans!), Bartlesville, OK, graduated in 1982
• Stout Junior High School, Dearborn, MI, graduated in 1979
• Snow Elementary School, Dearborn, MI, "graduated" in 1976.
• Home Schooled, 1964-1970. Majored in Crayon/Wall Art, minored in doo-doo jokes. Graduated summa cum laude.

Published (or Soon-to-be Published) Papers Available Electronically

"Moral Address, Moral Responsibility, and the Boundaries of the Moral Community," Ethics, October 2007

"Personal Identity and Practical Concerns," Mind, 2007.

"Personal Identity and Ethics," entry in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Caring, Identification, and Agency," Ethics, October 2003 (available here in RTF format); if you or your library has a subscription to Ethics, you may click here for the official copy.

"The Irrelevance/Incoherence of Non-Reductivism About Personal Identity," Philo, Fall-Winter 2002.

"Disintegrated Persons & Distributive Principles," Ratio, March 2002.

"'Dirty Words' and the Offense Principle," Law and Philosophy, v. 19 (December 2000): 545-584 (reprinted here with kind permission of Kluwer Law International).

"Reductionist Contractualism: Moral Motivation and the Expanding Self," The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, September 2000 (reprinted here with kind permission of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy).

"Selves and Moral Units," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, December 1999.

"Utilitarianism and Personal Identity," Journal of Value Inquiry, June 1999 (reprinted here with kind permission of Kluwer Online).

"Theoretical Persons and Practical Agents," Philosophy & Public Affairs, Fall 1996 (connection here to JSTOR).

Department of Philosophy
305 Shatzel Hall,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH 43403.

Phone: 419-372-2117
Fax: 419-372-8191
Email: mdeluca@bgnet.bgsu.edu