Professor Jeffrey joined the department in the Fall of 2008, after teaching at Duke University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He earned his PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill, working most closely with Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Thomas E. Hill Jr., and Susan Wolf. His dissertation was, broadly, within the area of meta-ethics, and more specifically on the topic of moral justification.
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Cornell University
Areas of Research & Teaching
Meta-ethics
Environmental Ethics
Normative Ethics
Ancient Ethics
Bioethics/Medical Ethics
Ancient Ethics
Selected Publications
Review of Robert Merrihew Adams’ “A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for theGood,”forthcoming in Journal of Moral philosophy.
“Ethical Considerations in CT Angiography,” International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. 2006 Dec 21.Samuel Wann MD, L. Andy Nassef MD, Justin Jeffrey PhD, Joseph V. Messer MD, Norbert M. Wilke MD, Andre J. Duerinck MD, PhD, James C. Blankenship MD, Michael K. Rosenberg MD, and Donald H. Dembo MD.
"The Tyranny of Romantic Love: continuing the conversation with Cephalus," Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics. Volume 7 No 1 June 2005.
Selected Recent Presentations
Reflected Glory: Deriving Final Normativity, delivered at Dartmouth College for the annual meeting of ISUS (International Society of Utilitarian Studies), August 2005.
Invited Speaker atUNC-Chapel Hill recruitment event: Science Spectrum Symposium, Spring 2006.
Moderator for UNC-Chapel Hill faculty panel discussion of Joel Bakan’s “The Corporation”, Spring 2006.
Inheriting Normativity, delivered at UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2006.
Financial and Moral Forgiveness, delivered at the Global Conference on Forgiveness in Salzburg, Austria (March 7-9, 2008).
Intrinsic Value and the Value of Nature, delivered at the University of Oregon for the annual IAEP conference. (August, 2008)
Contextualism about Intrinsic Value, accepted for presentation at the first annual RoMe conference in Boulder Colorado (2008)