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Contact Information • Education • Area of Specialization • Areas of Competence • Honors and Awards • Conference Presentations • Other Academic Participation • Work in Progress • Courses Taught • Courses Assisted • Informal Teaching Experience • Graduate Courses • Professional Service
CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Arizona Philosophy Department
Social Sciences #213, PO Box 210027
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dmsilver
Cell: (520) 481-2451
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2006 -
Present
Comprehensive Exams in Political Philosophy
and Metaphysics
Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2000 - 2005
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Received ― B.A.
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Honors Thesis: "A New Method of Assessing Freedom in the Discipline of Political Philosophy"
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Committee: Norman Bowie (Chair), Michael Kac, Timothy Johnson
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Laurels: Summa cum Laude, High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa
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Social and Political Philosophy
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Constitutive questions about political legitimacy and the proper scope of politics
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Political virtues and political obligations, especially in non-ideal theory
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Applied Ethics
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Metaphysics
Honors:
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Fellow, Program in the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona, 2007-2008
Awards:
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Humane Studies Fellowship, Spring 2009
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Humane Studies Fellowship, Fall 2007
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Kendrick Fellowship, Winter 2006
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H. B. Earhart Fellowship, 2006-2007
Graduate
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"Political Virtue in Non-Ideal Theory: Obligation Under Conditions of Oppression." Social Change Workshop, Brown University. Providence, RI, June 26, 2008
Undergraduate
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"The Potential Futility of Ethics Being Simultaneously Objective and Normative." Minnesota Philosophical Society, Annual Undergraduate Conference, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN, April 12, 2003
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Round Table Seminar Participant: "Federalism and Constitutions." IHS/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty Conference Series. Boston, MA, October 26-28, 2007
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Round Table Seminar Participant: "Hayek on Liberty." IHS/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty Conference Series. Chicago, IL, April 13-15, 2007
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"Political Virtue in Non-Ideal Theory: Obligations Under Conditions of Oppression."
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"Questioning the 'Natural Consequences' of Self-Regarding Harms in Mill's On Liberty."
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"Toward an Ontology of Normative Components to Cases of Causation by Omission."
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"PHIL 111: Introduction to Philosophy" - Daniel Silvermint, Fall 2008
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"PHIL 320B: The Philosophy of Freedom" - Daniel Silvermint, Spring 2008
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"PHIL 205: The Ethics and Economics of Wealth Creation" - Gerald Gaus, Fall 2007
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"INDV 103: Anarchy, Morality, Government, and Tyranny" - Gerald Gaus, Spring 2007
As the assistant coach, and later the head coach, of a Lincoln-Douglas Debate Team (Mounds View High School, Arden Hills, MN: 2000-2003)
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Introduction to Logic and Rhetoric
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Survey of Moral and Political Philosophy
+ Indicates course was audited
* Independent study with faculty
° Taken while an undergraduate
