Dr. Jeff Mitchell

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY

EDUCATION HISTORY

  • BA-Whitman College
  • MA-Vanderbilt University 
  • PHD-Vanderbilt University 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professor Mitchell's research interests include critical thinking, moral psychology, and libertarianism. In his free time, he pursues his late-born hobby, mathematics.

“On a Common Misconception of Ruth Benedict’s Moral Relativism” in Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2012, 29-40.

Individualism and Moral Character: Karen Horney’s Depth Psychology, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2014.

On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues: From Gentility to Technocracy, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.

“John Dewey’s Rival Versions of Virtue” in Education & Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, Winter 2019, 47-58.

Recently Taught Courses

  • PHIL 2003 - INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY
  • PHIL 2013 - RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
  • PHIL 2043 - HONORS INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY
  • PHIL 2053 - INTRO TO CRITICAL THINKING
  • PHIL 2253 - SURV WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • PHIL 3103 - LOGIC
  • PHIL 4993 - SPEC PROB/PHIL
  • POLS 2253 - SURV WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT