Timothy Kirschenheiter

Visiting Assistant Professor
750 Mathematics and Science Center
[email protected]

Degrees
Ph.D., Philosophy, Wayne State University, 2022
MA, Philosophy, Wayne State University, 2014
BA, Philosophy, University of Indianapolis, 2008, (Second Major: Spanish)

Areas of Specialization 
Ethics, Bioethics

Area of Competence
Epistemology

Publications

1. “Longtermism and AI Moral Agents.” Forthcoming in The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, eds. David Černý, Vladimir Mařík, and Jiřī Wiedermann. New York: Springer.
2. “The Morality of Incentivising Organ Donations from Prisoners.” Forthcoming in The New Bioethics.
3. “A Defense of Abortion on the Basis of Self-defense.” 2025. Asian Bioethics Review 17(3): 545-569.
4. “Why Harm Reduction Programs Should Be Extended to Include Psychedelic Drugs.” 2024. In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use, ed. Rob Lovering. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 533-542.
5. “Two Counterexamples to Carey on Misinformation.” 2024. Social Philosophy Today 40: 201-205.
6. “Responsibility Arguments in Defence of Abortion: When One Is Morally Responsible for the Creation of a Fetus.” 2023. The New Bioethics 29(4): 340-351.
7. “Xenophanes’ Epistemology: Empiricist, Global Skeptic, or Both?” 2023. Akroterion 68: 1-13.
8. “Objecting to the ‘Doesn’t Justify the Denial of a Defeater’ Theory of Knowledge: A Reply to Feit and Cullison.” 2022. Logos & Episteme 13(4): 407-415.
9. “Complicity in Harm Reduction.” (with John Corvino). 2020. Health Care Analysis 28(4): 352-361.