Gannon University | Robyn Gaier

Courses Taught

Educational History

Saint Louis University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Dissertation Title: "Moral Monsters, Autism, and the Knowledge of Persons: A Second-Personal, Externalist Account of Moral Motivation," 2011
Ohio University, Master of Arts in Philosophy, Thesis Title: "Understanding God's Justice Towards Those Who Suffer: A Critique of Eleonore Stump's Defense," 2004
Bowling Green State University, Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, 2001 (cum laude)
Bowling Green State University, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 2001 (cum laude)

Professional Societies

Publications

“What Darkness Reveals: A Look at Depression and Suicide in the Works of William Styron,” editor Josefa Ros Velasco, in Suicide in Modern Literature: Social Causes, Existential Reasons, and Prevention Strategies (Springer, 2021), pp. 203-214.
“Self-forgiveness and the Moral Domain,” (Presidential Address for the Southwestern Philosophical Society) in Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (January 2018), pp. 31-47.
“The Logic of the Broken,” Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin, vol. 22, no. 1 (2015), pp. 20-3.
“Self-love and Moral Agency,” in Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 31, no. 1 (January 2015), pp. 147-55.
“Social Stigma and Suicide,” in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, vol. 8, published online on Dec. 6, 2013. https://jemh.ca/issues/v8/JEMHVol82013.html
“Hey, You, What’s so Special about the Second-Person Perspective?” in Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 26, no. 1 (January 2010), pp. 205-13.
“On the Continuation of the Craft Analogy in Republic II,” in Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 25, no. 1 (January 2009), pp. 83-91.
“On the Reconciliation of the Spinozistic Doctrines of the Eternality of the Mind and Monistic Parallelism,” in Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 24, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 211-18.

Robyn Gaier