August Gorman

Title: Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: 646 Mathematics and Science Center
Email: [email protected]

My areas of specialization are moral responsibility and agency, disability-informed bioethics and the philosophy of death. My research focuses on how to answer ethical questions in ways that pay full respect to just how different each of our minds are.

Degrees
University of Southern California
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2018

University of Mary Washington
B.A. in Philosophy and English: Creative Writing, 2012

Publications
"Against Neuronormativity in Moral Responsibility"
2024, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 10(1/2).

"What is the Difference Between Weakness of Will and Compulsion?"
2023, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9(1):37-52.

“Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access”
2023, in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (ed. Shelley Lynn Tremain), New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

"Demystifying the Deep Self View"
2022, Journal of Moral Philosophy 19(4):390-414.

“Holism, Particularity, and the Vividness of Life”
2022, The Journal of Ethics 3:1-15.

“Living Your Best Life”
2021, Analysis 81(3).

“Tragic Life Endings and Covid-19 Policy”
2020, The Philosopher’s Magazine, November 2020 Edition.

“Depression’s Threat to Self-Governance”
2020, Social Theory and Practice 46(2):277-297.

“Taking Stock of the Risks of Life Without Death”
2020, Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives.

“The Minimal Approval View of Attributional-Responsibility”
2019, Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 6.

“Williams and the Desirability of Body-Bound Immortality Revisited”
2017, European Journal of Philosophy 24(3).