Robyn Gaier

Courses Taught

Philosophy and the Good Life (PHIL 101)
Environmental Ethics (PHIL 260)
Bioethics (PHIL 270)
Healthcare Ethics (PHIL 272)

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

American Philosophical Association
Southwestern Philosophical Society

Publications

Why Suicide is Amoral: A Philosophical Account. Lexington Books. 2024.
"Is Suicide a Choice? Suicide and Sophie's Choice in William Styron," in The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide, editor Josefa Ros Velasco (Springer, 2023): pp. 139-46.
“What Darkness Reveals: A Look at Depression and Suicide in the Works of William Styron,” in Suicide in Modern Literature: Social Causes, Existential Reasons, and Prevention Strategies, editor Josefa Ros Velasco (Springer, 2021): pp. 203-14.
“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.