Deborah Mower, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: Bryant Hall 17
Phone: 662.915.2010
email: dsmower@olemiss.edu
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
B.A., Pacific University, 1998
TEACHING AND COURSES OFFERED
Phil 204 Introduction to Ethical Policy Debate
Phil 347 Advanced Ethical Policy Debate
Phi 353 Consequentialism
Phil 395 Moral Psychology
Phil 102 Introduction to Professional Ethics
Phil 321 Ethics
Recent topics of upper-division and graduate-level seminars:
Moral Transformations: Honor and Anger
The Ethical Vision(s) of Utopias
Civility
RESEARCH
Areas of Research Specialization:
Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology, Virtue Ethics, Asian Philosophy
BIOGRAPHY
Deborah S. Mower is the Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hume Bryant Associate Professor of Ethics and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. She specializes in moral psychology, applied ethics and public policy, and moral education and assessment with a special interest in moral sensitivity, conviction, and civility. She coordinates the Dialogue Initiative at the University of Mississippi, and is the Chair for General Education Ethical Reasoning and Ethical Responsibility. She has published numerous articles on moral education as well as two co-edited volumes with Routledge [Civility in Politics and Education (2012) and Developing Moral Sensitivity (2015)]. In 2016, she co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Moral Psychology and Education. She is the recent past President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC), a current Board Member for Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), a Research Member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD), as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). She also coaches the UM Ethics Bowl team, who were the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Regional Champions.
For information about Dr. Mower’s publications can be found on her website https://www.deborahmower.com
or through the Academia page Academia.edu profile page.
SEAC: https://www.seac-online.org
PLATO: https://www.plato-philosophy.org
NICD: https://nicd.arizona.edu
APPE: https://www.appe-ethics.org
NIH: https://www.gvsu.edu/neh-institute/
Ethics Bowl: https://philosophy.olemiss.edu/ethics-bowl/
and https://libarts.olemiss.edu/um-delves-into-ethics-to-prepare-students-to-debate-societys-issues/
and https://libarts.olemiss.edu/ethics-bowl-team-wins-mid-atlantic-championship/