I’m Chris Surprenant, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNO, and I’m
back to answer your questions about philosophy and the academy
generally. AMA! (Beginning at 3pm Eastern on 1/31)
Abstract
I’m Chris W. Surprenant, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
University of New Orleans, where I direct the Alexis de Tocqueville
Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality. I am the author of Kant and the
Cultivation of Virtue (Routledge 2014), editor of Rethinking Punishment
in the Era of Mass Incarceration (forthcoming, Routledge 2017), and
co-editor of Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary
(Routledge 2011) and Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment (forthcoming,
Routledge 2017). My current projects apply knowledge gained from
studying the history of philosophy to contemporary issues in criminal
justice reform, including the ethics of punishment. I’m also interested
in business ethics and examining the connection between human well-being
and entrepreneurship. During my first AMA in fall 2015, I was asked a
number of questions on issues in moral philosophy; practical ethics,
such as our approach to animals, the poor, or adjuncts in the academy;
and how to be a successful graduate student and have a better chance of
being a successful academic. I’ve been invited back to answer questions
about my current work, our for-credit high school program in philosophy
and political economy, the academy generally, and anything else that you
want to talk about. Ask me anything! Well, almost anything.