Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Steven Fesmire is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Professor of Philosophy at 澳门老奇人论坛. He was President of the . He was honored with Radford's 2022 College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Fesmire is also the recipient of a 2022-2023 Dalton Eminent Scholar Award.
His recent public philosophy work鈥攎ost of which has been in the ambit of ethics, education, and politics鈥攈as appeared in places such as , USA Today, , , , Huffington Post, The Humanist, , , and . His most recent book is (Oxford University Press, August 2024). He is the author of (Indiana University Press, 2003), winner of a 2005 Choice 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥� award. He is also the author of (Routledge Press, 2015), winner of a 2015 Choice 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥� award. He is editor of (Oxford University Press, 2019; Paperback edition, 2023), and he is completing two book manuscripts: Beyond Moral Fundamentalism: Pragmatic Pluralism in Ethics, Education, and Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and Ignorance of Context: Cultivating an Ecological Imagination in Ethics, Education, and Politics.
Professor Fesmire was a 2009 Fulbright Scholar at Kyoto University and Kobe University in Japan, a 2015鈥�16 Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, and a 2016 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to joining the Radford faculty, Professor Fesmire was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College and Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Green Mountain College in Vermont.