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I am the Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow at Florida State University and the Mellon Course Design Coordinator for the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project at the University of Notre Dame. I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Arizona and have been a visiting researcher at Brown, Notre Dame, and Rutgers. For more information, please contact me at rwsiscoe@gmail.com.

Publications

Belief, Rational and Justified | Mind

No Work for a Theory of Epistemic Dispositions | Synthese (2021) 198.4: pp. 3477-3498

Stoic Virtue: A Contemporary Interpretation | Philosophers' Imprint (2020) 20: pp. 1-20

The Demandingness of Virtue | The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2020) 18: pp. 1-22

Incoherent but Reasonable: A Defense of Truth-Abstinence in Political Liberalism | Social Theory and Practice, with Alex Schaefer (2020) 46: pp. 573–603


Popular Teaching Contributions

What Makes a Course Effective? | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (February 10, 2021)

What Makes a Course Engaging? | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (December 16, 2020)

No Online, Ed-Tech Tool Will Save the Fall Semester | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (September 23, 2020)

How Do I Know if I am Improving at Online Teaching? | The Philosophers' Cocoon (September 3, 2020)

Creating Community in the Online Format | Philosophy, Ethics, Academia (August 24, 2020)

How Should We Grade Students During a Pandemic? | Daily Nous (August 11, 2020)