Lee Shepski
Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
I’m a philosophy professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. My work is driven by the Socratic question, ‘How should one live?’ which motivates and unifies my interests in ethics, metaethics, and ancient Greek philosophy. In the summer of 2008 I completed a dissertation defending moral realism under the direction of Mark Timmons at the University of Arizona, and currently I’m working on projects in metaethical theory, moral epistemology, and moral responsibility (see Selected Abstracts and Papers). I regularly teach normative ethics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and in Fall 2009 I’m teaching a graduate seminar on moral particularism.
Earlier, I studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. I also served on the University of Arizona's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). These experiences have inspired secondary philosophical interests in business ethics and the ethics of animal research.