John Mizzoni, PhD

Experience

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  Neumann University

  Aug 2006 - now

  Recent presentations: “I Can Barely Fathom What I Did On My Sabbatical: How I Wrote an Intro Philosophy Text in 8 years,” The Neumann University Faculty Convivium, via Microsoft Teams, January 14, 2025.The Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, July 5, 2018: “Freedom Within the Bounds of Evolution: An Evolutionary Perspective on Ethics and Normative Self-Government.”Forty-First Annual International Meeting of the American Maritain Association: Thomism and Science, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, March 2, 2018: “Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: Pope John Paul II and Evolution.”2016 Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, Commentator, November 4, 2016: “Comments on Charles Robertson’s `Is Marriage a Basic Good?’” Eastern Division American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, Commentator at a Metaethics Colloquium, January 9, 2016: “Comments on Ross Colebrook’s `The Heroes and Villains of Evolutionary History: Ethical Reductionism and the Darwinian Dilemma.’” Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada, July 6, 2015: “Evolution and (Aristotelian) Virtue Ethics.”Recent courses taught:• Life's Big Questions (online, spring 2015)• Ethics and Literature (Honors Seminar, spring 2015)• Evolution and Philosophic Inquiry (Honors Seminar, fall 2014)• The Philosophy of Sport (spring 2014)• Introduction to Philosophy (f2f and online)• Ethics (f2f and online)• Business EthicsRecent Consulting Work:• Completed 3 Quality Matters Peer Reviews of online courses, one internal to Neumann University, two of them external to Neumann.• Provided Developmental Review of an introductory ethics book proposal, for Wiley-Blackwell (2013, September). Show less

  • Professor of Philosophy

    Aug 2000 - now

  • Philosophy WorkGroup Leader

    Aug 2006 - Aug 2014