Research Interests
practical ethics (esp. animal ethics and environmental ethics), normative ethics, and metaethics
Employee degree:
BA, Ashland University
PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
MA, University of Missouri-St Louis
Biography
Jonathan Spelman joined Ohio Northern University in 2017. He specializes in ethics, especially animal ethics and environmental ethics, and he teaches a variety of ethics courses. He currently serves as the coach for the university's Ethics Bowl team.
Recent Scholarship
- "Mike DeWine, Mask Mandates, and the Value of Moral Philosophy,” Ohio under COVID, edited by Katherine Sorrels, Vanessa Carbonell, Danielle Bessett, Lora Arduser, Edward V. Wallace, and Michelle L. McGowan, University of Michigan Press, 2023, pp. 55-70. University of Michigan Press, https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12396322.
- "Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving," Think: Philosophy for Everyone 21, no. 62 (Autumn 2022): 117-132. Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175622000069.
- "Against Eating Humanely-Raised Meat: Revisiting Fred’s Basement," Journal of Animal Ethics 10, no. 2 (2020): 177-191. University of Illinois Press, https://doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.10.2.0177.
- "Environmental Ethics and Climate Change," Introduction to Ethics: An Open Educational Resource, edited by Noah Levin, N.G.E. Far Press, 2019, pp. 98-103.
Courses Taught
- HONR 2111: Practical Ethics (article)
- PHIL 2341: Logic
- PHIL 2401: Professional Ethics
- PHIL 3101: Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 3441: Ethical Theory
- TREX 1001: Critical Thinking about Controversial Topics