Michael W. Austin
Curriculum Vitae
October 2008
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Case Annex 268
Eastern Kentucky University

mike.austin@eku.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Philosophy, 2004, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dissertation:  Parental Rights and Obligations (David Boonin, director)

M.A., Philosophy, 2000 (Highest Honors), Biola University
B.A., Political Science, 1991, Kansas State University

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Eastern Kentucky University, 2007-present

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Eastern Kentucky University 2004-2007

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

Ethics (Theoretical and Applied), Social/Political Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Religion, History of Ethics, Existentialism, Environmental Ethics, Epistemology

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family. Ashgate Studies in Applied

Ethics (Ashgate, 2007).

Journal Articles

“Magnanimity, Athletic Excellence, and Performance-Enhancing Drugs,” Journal of

Applied Philosophy (forthcoming).

“Popular Culture in the Philosophy Classroom: A Modest Defense,” with Greg Bassham,

American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 8 (2008): 6-9.

“Do Children Have a Right to Play?” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (2007): 135-146.

“Fundamental Interests and Parental Rights,” International Philosophical Quarterly 47

(2007): 221-235.

“Moral Difficulties in Plantinga’s Model of Warranted Christian Belief,” Philosophy and

Theology 17 (2005): 121-132.

“The Failure of Biological Accounts of Parenthood,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 38

(2004): 499-510.

“It Is Ethical Intuitionism, and Not Another Thing:  A Reply to Eggleston,” Southwest

Philosophy Review 20 (2004): 155-157.

“On the Alleged Irrationality of Ethical Intuitionism:  Are Ethical Intuitions

Epistemically Suspect?” Southwest Philosophy Review 19 (2003): 205-213.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Divine Command Theory,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006):

http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/divine-c.htm

“Parental Rights and Obligations,” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and

Public Policy, edited by Jack Rabin (New York:  Marcel Dekker, online edition, 2005).

“Parenting,” Ethics, revised edition, ed. by John K. Roth (Pasadena, CA:  Salem

Press, 2005), pp. 1089-1090.

“Whistleblowing:  Corporate and Public Policy” (with Mike Harper)

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, ed. by Jack

Rabin (New York:  Marcel Dekker, online edition 2004).

Book Reviews

Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays, edited by Clifford Williams, in Teaching

Philosophy 30:3 (2007): 327-329.

Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe, by Erik J. Wielenberg, in Philosophia Christi 8

(Series 2, 2006), pp. 183-185.

The Story of Ethics:  Fulfilling Our Human Nature, ed. by Kelly James Clark and Anne

Poortenga, in Teaching Philosophy 28:3 (2005): 279-281.

Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy, ed. by Michael Beaty, Carlton Fisher, and Mark

Nelson, in Philosophia Christi 3 (Series 2, 2001), pp. 608-610.

New Ethics for the Public’s Health, ed. by Daniel Beauchamp and Bonnie Steinbock, in

Ethics and Medicine 16 (2000), pp. 93-94.

Public Philosophy

Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind, edited (Blackwell, 2007).

Football and Philosophy: Going Deep, edited (University Press of Kentucky, 2008).

“Crowning a True Champion: The Case for a College Football Playoff,” in Football and

Philosophy.

“Chasing Happiness Together: Running and Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendship,” in

Running and Philosophy, pp. 11-19.

“What Do Jack and Locke Owe Their Fathers?” in Lost and Philosophy, edited by Sharon

Kaye (Blackwell, 2007).

“We Get to Carry Each Other: U2 and Kierkegaard on Authentic Love,” Philosophy

Now 64 (November/December 2007): 14-17.