Cheshire Calhoun works in the areas of normative ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and lesbian and gay studies. Her books are Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future and Meaningful Living (OUP, 2018), Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP, 2016), Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (OUP, 2000), and two edited collections, What is an Emotion?"(coedited with Robert C. Solomon, OUP, 1984), and Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (OUP, 2004). Her published essays are on such topics as intimidation, appreciation, responsibilities, meaningful living, forgiveness, shame, common decency, and civility. Two of her essays were judged by The Philosopher's Annual to be among the top 10 essays to appear in print--"Changing One's Heart" in 1992 and "The Virtue of Civility" in 2000--and "Geographies of Meaningful Living" won the annual essay prize from the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Cheshire Calhoun edits the Oxford University Press series Studies in Feminist Philosophy. She was a two-term chair of the American Philosophical Association's board of officers. She has served as chair of the philosophy departments at Colby College and University of Louisville and as faculty head for philosophy at ASU; and she was director of Women’s Studies at Colby College and the College of Charleston .She teaches courses on modern philosophy, moral psychology, ethical theory, socio-political philosophy, and race/gender/disability.
Cheshire Calhoun works in the areas of normative ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and lesbian and gay studies. Her publications include Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP 2016), Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (OUP, 2000), two edited collections, What is an Emotion? (coedited with Robert C. Solomon, OUP, 1984) and Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (OUP, 2004), as well as essays on responsible persons, forgiveness, integrity, shame, common decency, and civility. Her book, Doing Valuable Time, centers on the interconnections between our capacity for evaluation and our temporality. That work includes essays on depression and demoralization, meaning in life, hope, boredom, commitment, and contentment. She is currently working on a series of essays on what it means to be a responsible person and on defining what she hopes will be a new subfield of moral philosophy--positive moral philosophy. Two of her essays were judged by The Philosopher's Annual to be among the top ten essays to appear in print in 1992 ("Changing One's Heart") and 2000 ("The Virtue of Civility"), and "Geographies of Meaningful Living" won the Journal of Applied Philosophy's prize for the best essay in volume 32.
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Articles & Chapters:
"On Being Content with Imperfection," forthcoming Ethics 127, no. 2 (January 2017): 327-352.
Spring 2022 | |
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PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 329 | History of Modern Philosophy |
PHI 336 | Social/Political Philosophy |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 420 | Topics in Philosophy |
PHI 591 | Seminar |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 329 | History of Modern Philosophy |
PHI 336 | Social/Political Philosophy |
PHI 493 | Honors Thesis |
PHI 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 405 | Moral Psychology |
PHI 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PHI 530 | Moral Psychology |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 329 | History of Modern Philosophy |
PHI 336 | Social/Political Philosophy |
PHI 493 | Honors Thesis |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 420 | Topics in Philosophy |
PHI 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PHI 520 | Topics in Applied Philosophy |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 329 | History of Modern Philosophy |
PHI 337 | Ethical Theory |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PHI 420 | Topics in Philosophy |
PHI 591 | Seminar |
PHI 599 | Thesis |
PHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
PHI 792 | Research |
PHI 799 | Dissertation |
American Philosophical Association
Philosophy MA/PhD graduate faculty member