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1 Alexander Jech, CB# 3125, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina Phone: (574) Education ( ): Ph.D. May 2009, M.A., January Dissertation: Wholehearted Love (Advisor: David O Connor) University of Washington ( ): B.A. with College Honors in Philosophy, June 2002 Employment University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, July 2012 Present University of Virginia: Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, August 2009 May 2012 Greek instructor and tutor, August 2010 May 2012 Indiana University South Bend: Adjunct Instructor in Philosophy, July August 2009 Research Interests AOS: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Environmental Philosophy AOC: Business Ethics, Existentialism, Philosophy of Science, Ancient Philosophy Publications Refereed Articles To Will One Thing, American Philosophical Quarterly 50:2 (2013): Man Simply : Excavating Tocqueville s Conception of Human Nature, Perspectives on Political Science 42:2 (2013): Affinity and Reason to Love, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87:1 (2013): Open Duties, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14:5 (2011): Are Intuitions of Supererogation Redoubtable? Southwest Philosophy Review 24:1 (2008): Publications Contributions to Books Contributor, Lexicon X, Galeno, ed. Roberto Radice, electronic edition by Roberto Bombacigno, 2 vols., Milan: Biblia, forthcoming (a Greek lexicon of Galen s writings) Contributor, Lexicon V, Stobeo, ed. Gretchen Reydams-Schils, electronic edition by Roberto Bombacigno, 2 vols., Milan: Biblia, 2012 (a Greek lexicon of Stobaeus anthology)

2 Publications Book Manuscripts Submitted The Hurricane Notebook: A Dialogue on the Divine Love Publications Book Reviews Review of Education and Human Values: Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care by Michael Slote, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Review of The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Christian Scholar s Review, forthcoming Presentations What Has Athens to do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism Chapel Hill Visitor s Workshop, August 2013 To Will One Thing Chapel Hill Visitor s Workshop, August 2012 Affinity and Reason to Love APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012 Reasons of Love Conference, Katholieke Universteit Leuven, Belgium, May 2011 Comments on Steven Lukes s Markets and Morals Work and Worth Conference, University of Virginia, April 2012 A Critique of Deep Ecology on Humanity and Nature Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Annual Ethics Conference, November 2011 Loving Awareness and the Direction-of-Fit of Love Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Annual Ethics Conference, November 2010 Comments on Martin J. Henn s An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2009 The Tragic Character of Frankfurt s Moral Theory Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado at Boulder, August 2008 Ohio State University Graduate Conference in Ethics, Columbus, May 2008 Comments on Erin E. Flynn s On the Impertinence of Frankfurt-Style Arguments Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado at Boulder, August 2008 Are Intuitions of Supererogation Redoubtable? Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, San Antonio, November 2007 Open Duties APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2007

3 Presentations, Continued Tocqueville s Phenomenology of Freedom Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, March 2007 Human Liberty and Human Nature: Tocqueville, a Case Study Humane Studies Research Colloquium, Washington, D.C., May 2006 Dead and Deadly: Pornography and the Imago Dei Edith Stein Conference on the Dignity of Women, Notre Dame, February 2006 Explaining the Organism: A Conceptual Problem with Genetic Priority Egenis Conference on Genomics in Context, Exeter, U.K., September 2005 Competitive Fellowships and Awards Olive W. Garvey Essay Competition, Equality and the Struggle for Liberty, 2005 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Grant,, 2006 Humane Studies Fellowship, APA Central Division Graduate Student Travel Award, 2007 Teaching Experience Introduction to Philosophy (SP08 (x2), FA08) Introductory course built around great texts and providing students with their first encounters with a range of important texts, ideas, and arguments. Introduction to Philosophy with Critical Thinking (SU09) Introductory course similar to above but including instruction on the basic elements of critical thinking such identifying the main types of argument and fallacious argument forms. Practical Ethics: The Ethics and Philosophy of Work (FA12 (x2), SP13, FA13) Introductory course providing philosophical perspectives on economic life and work, including readings by Aristotle, Adam Smith, Marx, Arendt, and a variety of contemporary authors. Morality and Business (SP14) Introductory course similar to the above but focusing more particularly upon the ethical dimensions of business and case studies arising in various concrete situations of business. Existential Philosophy (SU13) Introductory course exposing students to existentialist themes and ideas, with particular focus on the writings of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Greek Ethics (SP09) Intermediate course providing a rich survey of Greek writings upon ethics, from Socrates to the Stoics (including the non-philosophers Hesiod and Thucydides). Seminar in Philosophy: Environmental Philosophy (SP12) Intermediate course exploring three central ideas of environmental philosophy: animals, wilderness, and ecology.

4 Teaching Experience, Continued Political Philosophy: Liberty & Revolution (SP13, FA13, SP14) Intermediate-to-advanced course focused upon understanding the one of the main concepts of modern political philosophy, liberty, and the associated feature of modern political life, revolution. Note: In FA13 and SP14 this course is paired with a speaker series bringing noted scholars to Chapel Hill to teach a class and deliver a lecture to the University community. Seminar for Majors: Moral Psychology (FA10) Advanced seminar focused upon the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and some contemporary authors (Donald Davidson, Philippa Foot, Warren Quinn, and Candace Vogler) influenced by or responding to her work on moral psychology and action theory. Special Topics in Philosophy: Freedom and the Good (SP10) Advanced seminar focused upon the tension in modern political philosophy between the political ideal of freedom and the moral ideal of virtue, examining both some of the texts where this tension arises most starkly and several attempted reconciliations between the two ideals. Independent Directed Study: Metaethics (FA11) Directed reading of texts by Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Christine Korsgaard. Independent Directed Study: Religious Epistemology (SP12) Directed reading of recent work on the epistemology of religious experience and religious belief by William P. Alston and Alvin Plantinga. Independent Directed Study: Kierkegaard (FA12) Directed reading of The Sickness Unto Death and Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing. PPL Research Seminar (SP10, SP11, SP12) Thesis-writing seminar in which students progressively drafted their own Fourth Year Research Projects and commented upon those being written by others. PPE Reading Group: Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations (SP13) Weekly reading group organized by the PPE program, devoted to reading and discussing some of the most significant ideas and arguments of Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations. PPE Reading Group: De Tocqueville s Democracy in America: Volume I (FA13) Weekly reading group organized by the PPE program and devoted to discussing some of the most significant ideas and arguments contained in Volume I of Tocqueville s Democracy in America. PPE Reading Group: De Tocqueville s Democracy in America: Volume II (SP14) Weekly reading group organized by the PPE program and devoted to discussing some of the most significant ideas and arguments contained in Volume II of Tocqueville s Democracy in America. Teaching Assistant () PHIL Introduction to Philosophy, Gutting/Ramsey, FA04, SP05, FA 05, FA06 PHIL Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love, David O Connor, SP06 PHIL Morality and Modernity, David Solomon and Peter Wicks, SP07

5 Professional Activities Speaker Series Organizer, Liberty & Revolution Speaker Series, UNC Secured grants and organized speaker series for UNC PPE Program bringing Michael Zuckert (Notre Dame), Jessica Flanigan (Richmond), Peter C. Myers (Wisconsin Eau Claire), and Philip Pettit (Princeton) to UNC to present papers related to the theme of Liberty & Revolution. Referee, Journal of Philosophical Research: 2010 present Referee, Journal of Value Inquiry: 2011 present Foreign Languages Reading Proficiency: Ancient Greek, Latin Beginning Proficiency: French, German, Japanese Graduate Coursework Ethics and Political Philosophy De Tocqueville Spring 2005 Michael Zuckert Directed Readings in Political Philosophy Fall 2005 Fred Rush Twentieth Century Ethics Fall 2005 Michael DePaul Theories of Law (audited) Spring 2005 Mary Keys Rawls (audited) Spring 2006 Michael Zuckert Hegel s Philosophy of History (audited) Fall 2006 Michael Zuckert Virtue and Practical Reasoning (audited) Fall 2007 David Solomon History of Philosophy Augustine and Anselm Fall 2003 Stephen Gersh Creation and Freedom Fall 2003 David Burrell Moral Perfection and the Exemplary Sage Fall 2003 David O Connor The City of God (audited) Spring 2004 Todd Whitmore Hegel Spring 2004 Fred Rush Aristotle s Metaphysics (audited) Fall 2005 Michael Loux Plato: Love, Death, and Poetry (audited) Fall 2006 David O Connor Plato s Republic (in Greek; audited) Fall 2009 Jon Mikalson Philosophy of Science Realism & Anti-Realism Spring 2002 Arthur Fine Divine Action in the World Spring 2004 Alvin Plantinga Philosophy of Science Fall 2004 Don Howard Philosophy of Biology Fall 2004 Lenny Moss Science and Religion (audited) Spring 2005 Alvin Plantinga Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Logic Metaphysics Spring 2004 Peter van Inwagen Epistemology Spring 2005 Michael DePaul Intermediate Logic Fall 2005 Michael Detlefsen Graduate and Junior Scholar Colloquia Attended by Invitation Graduate Workshop in Philosophy of Biology May 2005 University of Exeter Thomistic Seminar: Teleology and Goodness Aug Witherspoon Institute The Founders Vision and Progressives Challenge June 2011 Jack Miller Center

6 Academic References David O Connor Associate Professor of Philosophy (574) doconnor@nd.edu Talbot Brewer Professor of Philosophy University of Virginia 120 Cocke Hall Charlottesville, Virginia (434) tbrewer@virginia.edu David Solomon Associate Professor of Philosophy (574) solomon.1@nd.edu Robert Audi John A. O Brien Professor of Philosophy (574) audi.1@nd.edu Loren Lomasky Cory Prof. of Political Philosophy, Policy and Law University of Virginia 120 Cocke Hall Charlottesville, Virginia (434) lel3f@virginia.edu Paul Weithman Professor of Philosophy (574) weithman.1@nd.edu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy: Visiting Assistant Professor July 2012 May 2014

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy: Visiting Assistant Professor July 2012 May 2014 Alexander Jech,, E-mail: ajech@nd.com Phone: (574) 631 7534 Employment, : Assistant Professor of the Practice Director of Undergraduate Studies (July 2016 Present) Assistant to the Chair (May 2014 June