Research Interests
practical ethics (esp. animal ethics and environmental ethics), normative ethics, and metaethics
Employee degree:
BA, Ashland University
MA, Univ of Missouri Saint Louis
PHD, Univ of Colorado at Boulder
Biography
Jonathan Spelman joined Ohio Northern Unversity in 2017. He specializes in practical ethics, especially animal ethics and environmental ethics, and he teaches a variety of ethics courses. He currently serves as the coach for Ohio Northern's Ethics Bowl team.
Recent Scholarship
- “Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving,” Think: Philosophy for Everyone 21, no. 62 (Autumn 2022): 117-132. Cambridge University Press, doi: 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, doi: 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
- PHIL 1041: Philosophy and Film
- PHIL 1051: Ethics, Justice and Law
- PHIL 2281: Philosophy of Law
- PHIL 2341: Logic
- PHIL 2401: Professional Ethics
- PHIL 3101: Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 3201: Political Philosophy
- PHIL 3441: Ethical Theory
- TREX 1001: Critical Thinking about Controversial Topics
- TREX 1001: Food Ethics