User:Atfyfe



I completed my BA in philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and then an MA in philosophy at University of Miami in Miami, Florida. My thesis at Miami concerned verificationism among the pragmatists William James, FCS Schiller, and CS Peirce ("Uselessness and the Classical Pragmatists: Pragmatic, Metaphysical, and Semantic Verificationism in James, Schiller, and Peirce"). My studies at Miami focused on classic pragmatism, philosophy of science, and epistemology.

I entered the PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington but left the program in 2009 without completing a dissertation. During this time my interests shifted to Kantian moral philosophy after reading Christine Korsgaard's Sources of Normativity. From 2009 to 2015 I taught extensively at Pierce College in Washington State and then at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia as well as for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. In the fall of 2015 I returned to complete my doctoral work at the University of Maryland. In the fall of 2019 I attended Harvard University as a visiting fellow to work with Christine Korsgaard on my dissertation concerning constitutive proofs of Kant's formula of humanity ("Constructing Our Moral World: Agency, Teleology, and Korsgaard"). I successfully defended this dissertation November 9th 2022 and was granted my PhD from the University of Maryland on May 22nd 2023. Education Trinity High School (Euless, TX) BA, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA) MA, University of Miami (Thesis Chair: Risto Hilpinen; Committee: Peter Lewis) (Miami, FL) MA, University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Faculty sponsor: Christine Korsgaard) (Cambridge, MA) PhD, University of Maryland (Dissertation Chair: Samuel Kerstein; Committee: Patricia Greenspan, Dan Moller, Harjit Bhogal, David Wasserman) (College Park, MD) Academic Work History Teaching Assistant, University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Adjunct Faculty, Green River Community College (Auburn, WA) Adjunct Faculty, Pierce College (Lakewood, WA and Puyallup, WA) Adjunct Faculty, College of Southern Maryland (La Plata, MD) Adjunct Faculty, University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA) Middle School Philosophy Instructor, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (Baltimore, MD) Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland (College Park, MD) Lecturer, University of Maryland (College Park, MD) Lecturer, Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ) Assistant Professor (visiting), Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) Publications

Academic Awards and Fellowships Moreland Perkins Fellow, University of Maryland (College Park, MD) Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets Fellow, University of Maryland (College Park, MD) Fellow in Philosophy, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) External Links
 * "Carrying Gold to California: 'The Will to Believe' as a Work of Philosophy of Science" Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, Volume 60, Issue 2. Published Fall 2024.
 * "John Stuart Mill's Beweis des Utilitarismus" Die 100 wichtigsten philosophischen Argumente. Studienausgabe, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Published 2012.
 * "William James' der Wille zum Glauben" Die 100 wichtigsten philosophischen Argumente. Studienausgabe, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Published 2012.
 * “Mill’s Proof of Utilitarianism”, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. First Edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Pp. 32-34. Published 2011.
 * “James’ Will to Believe”, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. First Edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Pp. 223-228. Published 2011.
 * Andrew Fyfe - Academia.edu

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