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Troy Jollimore (Ph.D. Princeton University)
Associate Professor

Troy Jollimore earned his B.A. from The University of Kings College / Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada, 1993) and his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1999). He taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Davis before coming to CSU Chico. His philosophical publications include "Friendship Without Partiality?" (Ratio 13:1, March 2000), "Why Is Instrumental Rationality Rational?" (Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35:2, June 2005) and a book, Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality (Garland, 2001). His first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award. He spent 2006-2007 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, working on his next book of philosophy, Love's Vision.

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