troy jollimore
TROY JOLLIMORE is
Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Jollimore
studied in the Philosophy Department at
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
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
tjollimore [at] csuchico.edu