ADAM J. KADLAC
Curriculum Vitae
806B McClung Tower (865)
310-9369
Philosophy Department akadlac@utk.edu
University of Tennessee ajkadlac.googlepages.com
Knoxville, TN 37996
Academic Appointments
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee; 2009-2010
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia; 2008-2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced
Studies in Culture, University
of Virginia; 2007-2009
Instructor, Ohio Dominican
University; Summer 2008,
Summer 2009
Education
Ph.D., University
of Virginia, August 2007
Dissertation: The Value of Persons
Dissertation Advisor: Talbot Brewer
M.A.,
University of Virginia, January 2006
B.A.,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1998
Major
in Philosophy and History
Awarded
with distinction
Areas of Specialization and
Competence
AOS:
Ethics
AOC:
Applied Ethics, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Political
Philosophy
Journal Articles
“Humanizing Personhood” (Forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice).
“What’s So Bad About Politicizing?” Public Affairs Quarterly 23 (2009):
227-44.
“Acceptance, Belief, and Descartes’s Provisional
Morality,” Ethical Theory and Moral
Practice 10 (2007): 35-52.
Reviews
Review of Christine Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency, forthcoming
in The Philosophical Quarterly.
Review of David Schmidtz, Elements of Justice
in The Hedgehog Review, “Human Dignity and Justice” (vol. 9, no. 3, Fall
2007).
Volumes Edited
The
Hedgehog Review, “Human Dignity and Justice” (vol.
9, no. 3, Fall 2007) (Guest Co-Editor with Joshua Yates).
Papers Submitted or Under Review
“Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the Social
Contract of Sport” (Under review at Public
Affairs Quarterly).
“Irreplaceability and Identity” (Submitted to Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research).
Work in
Progress
“Reductios Ad Absurdum
in Moral Philosophy”
“Righteous Rhetoric”
“The Relational Extension of Personhood”
“The Importance of Arguing
as We Believe”
Presentations
Papers
Given
“The Importance of Arguing as We Believe,” University of Tennessee,
November 2009.
“Inquiry, Evaluative Commitment, and Attributions of Personhood,”
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia,
April 2007.
“Moral Vision and Moral Disagreement: A Critique of Projectivism,”
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston SC,
April 2006.
“Elenchus as Soulcraft: The Case of Callicles,” Midsouth Philosophy
Conference, Memphis TN, February 2006.
“Callicles and the Challenge of Alternative Moralism,” Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham
NC, March 2005.
Comments
On Gregory Schaefer, “A Strong, Yet Strongly Intuitive, Form of
Internalism,” University
of Virginia Philosophy
Retreat, October 2006
On Kelvin Booth, “The Creativity of Phusis,” Midsouth
Philosophy Conference, Memphis
TN, February 2006.
Teaching
Courses
taught:
The Virtues (PHIL 300): University
of Tennessee; Spring 2010
Bioethics (PHIL 246): University
of Tennessee; Fall 2009,
Spring 2010
Business Ethics (PHIL 243): University
of Tennessee; Fall 2009
Free Will (PHIL 265): University
of Virginia; Spring 2009
Contemporary Ethics (PHIL 352): University of Virginia;
Spring 2009
Happiness and the Good Life (PHIL 254), University of Virginia;
Fall 2008
Objectivity and Ethics (PHIL 454), University of Virginia; Fall 2008
Foundations
of Business Ethics (PHIL 346), Ohio Dominican
University; Summer 2008,
Summer 2009
Business
and Society (BUS 318), Ohio Dominican
University; Summer 2008,
Summer 2009
Truth (PHIL
162), University of Virginia; Spring 2006
Facts and
Values (PHIL 164),
University of Virginia; Fall 2005
Church and
State (PHIL 163),
University of Virginia; Spring 2005
Courses
assisted (weekly discussion sections, grading):
Introduction
to Philosophy
Professor
Mitch Green, University
of Virginia; Fall 2003
Democracy
Professor Talbot Brewer, University of Virginia;
Spring 2004
Human
Nature
Professor
Harold Langsam, University
of Virginia; Fall 2004
Awards and Fellowships
Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,
University of Virginia, 2004-2007.
Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, University of Virginia,
February 2006 ($250).
Acton Institute Essay Competition: Third Place for “Societal Flourishing
and the Inner Lives of Others,” January 2005 ($500).
Wisconsin Alumni Association of Central Ohio
Scholarship, August 1997.
Wisconsin Alumni Association of Central Ohio
Scholarship, August 1996.
Activities and Service
Referee for The Journal of Ethics
Jefferson Scholars
Seminar Leader, University
of Virginia, March 2009
Publications Assistant, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture,
2008-2009
Colloquium Coordinator for the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Culture’s 2007 Spring Colloquium, 2006-2007
Philosophy Club
Co-President, University of Virginia, 2004-2005
Associations
American
Philosophical Association
Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
References
Talbot
Brewer, Associate Professor (Dissertation Advisor)
Department
of Philosophy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434-924-7701
tbrewer@virginia.edu
Daniel Devereux, Professor
Department
of Philosophy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434-924-6919
dtd2e@virginia.edu
John Hardwig, Professor and Department Head
Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
37996
865-974-3255
jhardwig@utk.edu
Scott
Palmer, Dean
Adult
Education Program
Ohio Dominican
University
1216 Sunbury Road
Columbus, OH 43219
614-251-4791
palmers@ohiodominican.edu
Rebecca Stangl, Assistant Professor
Department
of Philosophy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434-924-6517
rls5ef@virginia.edu