troy jollimore

 

TROY JOLLIMORE is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico, and author of the poetry collection, Tom Thomson in Purgatory.

Jollimore studied in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1999.  His dissertation, on the relation between normative theories of ethics and the requirements of friendship, was advised by Harry Frankfurt and Sarah Buss and was selected by Robert Nozick for Garland Publishing’s Studies in Ethics series. Before studying at Princeton, he was an undergraduate at the University of King’s College and in the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  After receiving his Ph.D. he taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Davis, before coming to CSU Chico.

His articles have appeared in journals including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophy and Literature. He spent the 2006-2007 academic year as an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, working on a philosophical book about love, tentatively titled Love’s Vision.

His first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, was selected by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the 2005 Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award, and won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He has poems in current or recent issues of Poetry, The Believer, Pleiades, and The Walrus. A chapbook of recent work, The Solipsist, will be published by Bear Star Press in November 2008.

Professor Jollimore’s areas of research interest include meta-ethics, normative ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of literature and film.  He has taught courses on all of these topics, as well as on epistemology, ancient philosophy, the history of modern philosophy, and biomedical ethics.

In addition to serving as Director of the Humanities Center at CSU Chico, Professor Jollimore has also served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE), as a faculty advisor for Phi Sigma Tau, the Philosophy Honors Society at CSU Chico, and as Coordinator for Theme S (Wealth, Power & Inequality) in the General Education Upper Division Themes Program.  He also writes frequently for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and is an occasional contributor to the Weblog PEA SOUP.

 

Troy Jollimore

Department of Philosophy

California State University

Chico, CA 95929-0730

tjollimore [at] csuchico.edu