Jason D. Grinnell
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-5289
Campus Address: Bishop Hall 229
grinnejd@buffalostate.edu
Bio: Dr. Grinnell joined the faculty at Buffalo State College in Fall 2007. His research focuses on applied ethics, character (Aristotelian) ethics, and the philosophy of education. He is currently working on a project addressing problems of ethics and identity in the adoption of children.
Dr. Grinnell teaches courses on Ancient philosophy, professional and applied ethics, and philosophy of race.
Education:
Ph.D. (Philosophy): Bowling Green State University, 2006
M.A. (Philosophy) Bowling Green State University, 1997
B.A. (History) University of Minnesota, Duluth 1994
Areas of Interest:
Ancient philosophy, philosophy of education, professional and applied ethics
Publications:
"Aristotle, Kant, Spike, and Jayne" in forthcoming D. Kowalski and E. Kreider (eds.), The Philosophy of Joss Whedon, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky
"The Ed.D. v.2.0: Reimagining the Doctorate in Education,"(with William White) in D. Callejo (ed.), Higher Education and Human Capital: Re/thinking the Doctorate in America, Amsterdam: Sense Publishers, (in press)
"Protagoras," in Tom Flynn (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Amherst: Prometheus Books (2007): 623-624.
Reviews:
Race, Rights, and Justice by J. Corlett, Journal of Value Inquiry (forthcoming)
Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History by J. Arthur: Journal of Value Inquiry (in press)
Racial Diversity and Social Capital by R. Hero: Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (2009): 547-550
Recent Presentations:
"Adoption Asymmetries," American Philosophical Association 2010 Central Division Meeting: American Society for Value Inquiry Session, Minneapolis, MN, March 30-April 2, 2010
"Teaching Abstractions with Abstracts," 12th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum: Bioethics and Ethics Across the Curriculum: The Challenges of Teaching, Researching, and Publishing Across Disciplines, Schenectady, NY, October 7-9, 2010
"Curricular Coherence" (with William White), 2010 American Association of Teaching and Curriculum National Convention, St Louis, MO, October 7-10, 2010
"Secrecy, Adoption, and Respect," Third International Conference on Adoption and Culture: Adoption, Secret Histories, Public Policies, Cambridge, MA, April 29-May 2, 2009
"Adoption and Respect," Department of Philosophy and Humanities Colloquium, Buffalo State College, February 23, 2010
"Reimagining Graduate Studies in Education" (with William White), 2009 American Association of Teaching and Curriculum National Convention, Arlington, VA, October 1-3, 2009
"An Incovenient Truth: The Incoherence of Multicultural Education" present to the American Convention for Teaching and Curriculum Convention, Austin, TX (October 2008) (with Bill White, Assistant Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, Buffalo State College).
Articles in Progress:
"An Inconvenient Truth: The Incoherence of Multi-cultural Education" (with William White). (Currently undergoing revisions in preparation for journal re-submission)
"Clint and Character: Respect, Friendship, and Ethics in Eastwood"---an essay on the tension between rule-based morality and Aristotelian character ethics in the films of Clint Eastwood. (Proposal under consideration for The Philosophy of Clint Eastwood, R. McClelland and B. Clayton, (eds.) University Press of Kentucky)
"Socially Constructed Natural States"---an analysis of the role Aristotelian essentialism plays in socially constructed racial categories.