JASON BAEHR Department of Philosophy Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive Los Angeles CA, 90045 310.338.4486 jbaehr@lmu.edu I. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2014 present. Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2009 2014. Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2003 2009. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, TX, 2002 2003. II. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Epistemology, Virtue Theory III. AREAS OF COMPETENCE Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Education IV. EDUCATION Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, 2002. Dissertation: The Epistemological Role of the Intellectual Virtues. Advisor: Laurence BonJour. M.A. Philosophy, Biola University, 1996, with highest honors. B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1994, with honors V. PUBLICATIONS Monographs: 1. The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2011). Edited volumes:
1. Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology, edited collection (Routledge, 2016). Journal articles and chapters in books: 1. Varieties of Character and Some Implications for Character Education, forthcoming in a special issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, eds. Richard Lerner, Scott Seider, and Eranda Jayawickreme. 2. Is Creativity an Intellectual Virtue? forthcoming in Creativity and Philosophy, eds. Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (Routledge). 3. Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education, forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, eds. Peter Graham, Miranda Fricker, David Henderson, Nikolaj Pedersen, and Jeremy Wyatt. 4. Intellectual Virtues and Educational Practice, forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, ed. Michael Peters (Springer). 5. "Honesty's Threshold," forthcoming in Moral Psychology, Vol. 5: Virtues and Vices, ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (The MIT Press). 6. Intellectual Virtues and Truth, Understanding, and Wisdom, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Virtue, ed. Nancy Snow (Oxford University Press). 7. "The Situationist Challenge to Educating for Intellectual Virtues," forthcoming in Epistemic Situationism, eds. Abrol Fairweather and Mark Alfano (Oxford University Press). 8. Virtue, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology, eds. Fred Aquino and William Abraham (Oxford University Press). 9. Responsibilist Virtues and the Charmed Inner Circle of Traditional Epistemology, Philosophical Studies (2016): pp. 1-13. DOI:10.1007/s11098-016-0734-z. 10. Is Intellectual Character Growth a Realistic Educational Aim? Journal of Moral Education 45.2 (2016): pp. 117-31. 11. Intellectual Humility: Owning our Limitations, with Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, and Dan Howard-Snyder, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, online version published on 17 August 2015, DOI: 10.1111/phpr.1228. 12. Four Dimensions of an Intellectual Virtue, forthcoming in Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy, eds. Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa, and Chienkuo Mi (Routledge, 2015): pp. 86-98. 13. "Character Virtues, Knowledge, and Epistemic Agency," a debate with Ernest Sosa, for Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, ed. Mark Alfano (Routledge, 2015): pp. 74-90. 14. Sophia, Virtues and their Vices, eds. Kevin Timpe and Craig Boyd (Oxford University Press, 2014): pp. 303-26. 15. Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated? a debate with Linda Zagzebski, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, second edition, eds. Matthias Steup and John Turri (Blackwell, 2013): pp. 133-51. 16. Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice, Journal for the Philosophy of Education 47.2 (2013): pp. 248-62. Reprinted in Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology, ed. Ben Kotzee (Blackwell, 2014). 2
17. The Cognitive Demands of Intellectual Virtue, Knowledge, Virtue, and Action, eds. David Schweikard and Tim Henning (Routledge, 2013): pp. 99-118. 18. Credit Theories and the Value of Knowledge, Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2012): pp. 1-22. 19. Two Types of Wisdom, Acta Analytica 27 (2012): pp. 81-97. This is a special issue featuring papers from the 2011 Bled Philosophy Conference. 20. Open-Mindedness as a Christian Virtue? in Being Good, eds. Doug Geivett and Michael Austin (Eerdmans, 2012): pp. 30-52. 21. The Structure of Open-Mindedness, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (2011): pp. 191-213. 22. Epistemic Malevolence, Metaphilosophy 41 (2010): 189-213. Reprinted in Virtue & Vice: Moral & Intellectual, ed. Heather Battaly (Blackwell, 2010). 23. Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2009): 545-67. Reprinted in Evidentialism and Its Discontents, ed. Trent Dougherty (Oxford University Press, 2011). 24. Is There a Value Problem? The Value of Knowledge, eds. Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard (Oxford University Press, 2009): 42-59. 25. Four Varieties of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology, Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (2008), pp. 469-502. Reprinted in Virtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, eds. John Greco and John Turri (MIT Press, forthcoming). 26. On the Reliability of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, Metaphilosophy 38 (2007), pp. 457-71. 27. Character in Epistemology, Philosophical Studies 128 (2006), pp. 479-514. 28. Character, Reliability, and Virtue Epistemology, The Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006), pp. 193-212. 29. Necessity and Rational Insight: Audi and BonJour on A Priori Justification, Journal of Philosophical Research 28 (2003): pp. 361-70. 30. Korsgaard on the Foundations of Moral Obligation, Journal of Value Inquiry 37 (2003): pp. 481-91. Encyclopedia articles: 1. "Virtue Epistemology," New Catholic Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012-2013 Supplement (Toronto: Gale Cenage Learning/Catholic University of America Press). 2. Virtue Epistemology, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. James Feiser, Spring 2004 <http://www.iep.utm.edu/v/virtueep.htm> [7500 words]. 3. A Priori/A Posteriori, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. James Feiser, Fall 2003, <http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/apriori.htm> [5800 words]. Book reviews: 1. Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well (Princeton UP, 2011), in Mind 121 (2012): pp. 532-39. 2. Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices (Eerdmans, 2009), Journal of Spiritual Formation 3 (2010): pp. 109-11. 3. Robert Roberts and Jay Wood (Oxford, 2006), Notre Dame Philosophical reviews, 7/01/07, <http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10223>. 3
4. Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck (Oxford, 2005), Metaphilosophy, 37 (2006): pp. 728-36. 5. Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski, eds., Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology (Oxford, 2003), Philosophical Books 47 (2006): pp. 81-85. 6. W. Jay Wood, Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (InterVaristy Press, 1998), Philosophia Christi 2 (2000): pp. 125-28. Other publications: 1. Cultivating Good Minds: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Educating for Intellectual Virtues (available for download at http://intellectualvirtues.org). 2. A Dose of Intellectual Humility for Adolescents, Slate.com, August, 2015. 3. How Does Humility Contribute to Strength? Big Questions Online, 12/13, <https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/how-does-humility-contribute-strength>. 4. Foreword, Virtuous Minds: Intellectual Character Development (InterVarsity Press, 2013). 5. "Educating for Intellectual Character," Voices in Education, Harvard Education Publishing, Jan. 2013, <http://hepg.org/blog/educating-for-intellectual-character>. 6. Intellectual Virtue and the Life of the University, invited faculty column, Baylor News, faculty publication at Baylor University, Spring, 2003. Scholarly work in progress: 1. The Comparative Structure of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, for the Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology, ed. Heather Battaly. 2. Two Views of Intellectual Humility, for a festschrift for Bob Roberts, eds. Scott Cleveland and Adam Pelser. 3. Intellectual Virtues, Civility, and Public Discourse, for an edited volume on intellectual virtues and civil discourse, eds. Gregg Tenhelsof, Steve Porter, and Tom Crisp. 4. Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, with Steve Porter, for Becoming Virtuous, eds. Christian Miller and Ryan West (OUP). 5. Intellectual Virtue, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley- Blackwell). 6. Flannery O Connor and Religious Epistemology 7. Wisdom in Perspective VI. GRANT PROJECTS & CONSULTING 1. Advisory Board member and consultant, Intellectual Humility in Public Discourse, Humanities Center, University of Connecticut, funded by a grant of over $5,000,000 from the John Templeton Foundation, director Michael Lynch (2015 2019). 2. Intellectual Virtues High School, $2,013,287 grant from the John Templeton Foundation, awarded to the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach in July of 2015. I was the primary author of the grant proposal and am Co-PI on the project. 3. Promoting Intellectual Humility Among Middle School Students: Developing an Educational Film, Preliminary Intervention Strategy, and Complementary Research 4
Program, $500,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation, awarded in fall of 2015 to Wake Forest University. I helped write the grant proposal and am contributing to several parts of the project, including writing a paper and coordinating a research study at the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach. PI and Co-PIs are from Wake Forest University, Tufts University, and University of Geneva. 4. Consultant for the University of Oklahoma regarding the formation and development of a new Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing (campus visits in fall of 2014 and spring of 2016). 5. Consultant on Developing Measures of Intellectual Humility, Biola University, sponsored by a grant of over $1,000,000 from the John Templeton Foundation. PI and Co-PIs are from Biola, Duke University, Baylor University, and SUNY Buffalo (2012-2015). 6. Principal Investigator, Intellectual Virtues and Education Project, a three-year interdisciplinary grant project at LMU devoted to understanding the importance of intellectual character virtues to educational theory and practice. Supported by a grant of $430,000 from the John Templeton Foundation (2012-15). 7. Principal Investigator, Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach, which supported the founding of the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach (2012-2015). Supported by a grant of $720,000 from the John Templeton Foundation. IX. HONORS AND AWARDS 1. Grant award of $2,013,287 from the John Templeton Foundation for the founding of an Intellectual Virtues Academy high school. I was the primary author of and am Co-PI on the grant, which was awarded to the Intellectual Virtues Academy in 7/15. 2. Fellowship award of $30,000, Center for Christian Thought, Biola University, annual theme on Intellectual Virtue and Civil Discourse, fall semester of 2014. 3. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2014 (for a paper on epistemic situationism) 4. Grant award of $430,000 from the John Templeton Foundation for the Intellectual Virtues and Education Project. Awarded 4/12. 5. Grant award of $720,000 from the John Templeton Foundation for the founding of the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach. Awarded 11/12. 6. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2012 (for an article on sophia or theoretical wisdom) 7. Faith and Justice Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2011 (for a paper on the moral and religious epistemology of Flannery O Connor) 8. Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2010 (for the development of a course on moral and religious knowledge in the fiction of Flannery O Connor) 9. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2009 (for a book chapter on intellectual courage) 10. Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2008 (for the development of a community-based learning course on philosophical issues in the book/film Dead Man Walking) 5
11. Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts College Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University, fall 2007 (for work on my book manuscript The Inquiring Mind) 12. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, 2007 (a paper on the structure of open-mindedness) 13. Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, Loyola Marymount University, summer 2006 (for the development of a community-based learning course in the philosophy of human rights) 14. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, 2005 (for a paper on the reliability of moral and intellectual virtues) 15. Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, 2004 (for a paper on the value problem in epistemology) 16. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Baylor University, 2002 17. Dissertation Fellowship and membership in the Society of Scholars, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2001 (turned down for Baylor postdoc) 18. Departmental Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2001 19. Departmental Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2000 20. Research Fellowship, University of Washington, 1998 6