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

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1 Alexander Jech,, Phone: (574) Employment, : Assistant Professor of the Practice Director of Undergraduate Studies (July 2016 Present) Assistant to the Chair (May 2014 June 2016) May 2014 Present University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, : Visiting Assistant Professor July 2012 May 2014 University of Virginia, Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law: Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Aug May 2012 Research Interests AOS: Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophical Theology, History of Ethics AOC: Ancient Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Science 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 Publications Refereed Articles Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon, American Political Thought 5:1 (2016): The Mountain of the Self: Comments on Self-Love and Moral Agency, Southwestern Philosophy Review 31:2 (2015): The Twofold Task of Union, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17:5 (2014): 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): AJ-1

2 Publications Refereed Articles, Continued Are Intuitions of Supererogation Redoubtable? Southwest Philosophy Review 24:1 (2008): Publications Invited Contributions Pascal and the Voicelessness of Despair, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8:2 (2016): 6 17 (contribution to book symposium on Thaddeus Metz s Meaning in Life) Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon, The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty: The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited, ed. Michael Zuckert (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) Publications Work in Progress Book manuscript: The Hurricane Notebook: Three Dialogues on the Human Condition (90,000 words complete) Refereed article, revise and resubmit stage: What Has Athens to do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism Humor as the Response to Volitional Incoherence Evil, Narrative, and the Standpoint of Creation (with Robert Reed and Megan Fritts) The Cross of the Self: Reading Kierkegaard as the Single Individual The Knight of the Spring Onion: Redemptive Love and the Problem of the Self in Brothers Karamazov Publications Book Reviews Review of The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Christian Scholar s Review 43:4 (2014) Review of Education and Human Values: Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care by Michael Slote, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (6/27/2013) Publications Contributions to Books Lexicon X: Galen, ed. Roberto Radice, electronic edition by Roberto Bombacigno, 2 vols., Milan: Biblia, forthcoming Lexicon VIII: Stobaeus, ed. Gretchen Reydams-Schils, electronic edition by Roberto Bombacigno, 2 vols., Milan: Biblia, 2013 Presentations Pascal and the Voiceless Inarticulacy of Despair Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, September 2015 AJ-2

3 Presentations (continued) Comments on Robyn R. Gaier s Self-love and Moral Agency Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Lawrence, Kansas, November 2014 What Has Athens to do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society, February 2014 Chapel Hill Visitors Workshop, August 2013 To Will One Thing Chapel Hill Visitors 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 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 AJ-3

4 Presentations (continued) Explaining the Organism: A Conceptual Problem with Genetic Priority Egenis Conference on Genomics in Context, Exeter, U.K., September 2005 Competitive Fellowships, Grants, and Awards Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Grant,, Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Grant,, 2006 Olive W. Garvey Essay Competition, Equality and the Struggle for Liberty, 2005 Teaching Experience Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy University Seminar: Ethics and Politics History of Ideas II: Gilgamesh to Lucretius Philosophy of Work Existentialist Themes Philosophy of Religion Environmental Philosophy Majors Seminar: Classical Political Philosophy Majors Seminar: Modern Political Philosophy Majors Seminar: Kierkegaard Majors Seminar: Moral Psychology Senior Thesis Writing Seminar PPE Reading Group: Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations PPE Reading Group: Democracy in America, Volume I PPE Reading Group: Democracy in America, Volume II PPE Colloquium: Tocqueville and the French Revolution Directed Reading: Metaethics Directed Reading: Religious Epistemology Directed Reading: Kierkegaard SP08 x2, FA08, SU09 F15 SP13 FA12 x2, SP13, F13, SP14 SU13, F14 SS15 SP12 SP09, SP15 SP10, SP13, FA13, SP14 SP16 FA10 SP10, SP11, SP12 SP13 FA13 SP14 F15 FA11 SP12 FA12 Advising Senior Thesis Advisor, Michelle Kim: TBD Topic on Nietzsche Senior Thesis Advisor, John Lee: Augustine and Kierkegaard on Anxiety, Guilt, and Sin Director, Joshua Dawson, Grad School Summer Research Program: Two Expositions of the Self 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 / ANU) to UNC to present papers related to the theme of Liberty & Revolution. Referee, Journal of Philosophical Research: 2010 present, Journal of Value Inquiry: 2011 present, European Journal of Political Theory: 2014 present, American Political Thought: 2014 present, Polity Press: 2014 present, Oxford University Press: 2015 present AJ-4

5 Foreign Languages Reading Proficiency: Ancient Greek, Latin Beginning Proficiency: French, German, Japanese Greek instructor and tutor, August 2010 May 2012 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 Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor (574) weithman.1@nd.edu AJ-5