Positions

Research Areas research areas

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2016 Exploitation and Consequentialism.  The Southern Journal of Philosophy.  54:66-91. 2016
2005 The paradox of wealth and poverty: Mapping the ethical dilemmas of global development.  Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy.  116:238-242. 2005
2003 Gender in the mirror: Cultural imagery and women's agency..  Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy.  113:708-711. 2003
2002 Why Feminist Contractarianism?.  Journal of Social Philosophy.  33:257-281. 2002
2002 Sexual Exploitation and the Social Contract.  Canadian Journal of Philosophy.  28:189-217. 2002
2000 “Locke on political authority and conjugal authority”.  Locke Newsletter.  31:115-146. 2000
1998 Libertarian Rights and Welfare Rights.  Social Theory and Practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy.  24:393-418. 1998
1995 Lacan, Kant, and Sade.  Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.  26:5-16. 1995

Book

Year Title
2004 Philosophy The Big Questions 2004
2003 Exploitation what it is and why it's wrong 2003

Chapter

Year Title
2017 "What Is Wrong With Price-Gouging in the Drug Market?" 2017
2012 “Autism and The Extreme Male Brain" 2012

Teaching Activities

  • Ethics and Society Taught course 2023
  • Modern Phil Descartes to Kant Taught course 2023
  • Ethics Taught course 2022
  • Modern Phil Descartes to Kant Taught course 2022
  • Ethics and Society Taught course 2021
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2021
  • Modern Phil Descartes to Kant Taught course 2021
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2021
  • Ethics and Society Taught course 2020
  • Honors/Who Are You? Taught course 2020
  • Ethics Taught course 2020
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2020
  • Ethics and Society Taught course 2019
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2019
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2019
  • Special Topics Taught course 2019
  • Honors/Who Are You? Taught course 2018
  • Philosophy and Feminism Taught course 2018
  • Honors/Who Are You? Taught course 2017
  • Modern Phil Descartes to Kant Taught course 2017
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2016
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2016
  • Ethics Taught course 2016
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2016
  • Ethics and Society Taught course 2015
  • Social & Political Philosophy Taught course 2015
  • Ethics Taught course 2015
  • Introduction to Philosophy Taught course 2015
  • Ethics Taught course 2014
  • General Intro to Philosophy Taught course 2014
  • Ethics Taught course 2014
  • Top/Evolution & Moral Psych. Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.A. Philosophy, Oberlin College
  • Ph.D. Art, University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D. Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

    • Full Name

  • Ruth Sample