Faculty Profile
Amy McKiernan
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, Ethics Across Campus & the Curriculum (2017)
Contact Information
East College
717-254-8169
Bio
Amy teaches “Practical Ethics,” “Biomedical Ethics,” “The Ethics of Punishment and Forgiveness,” "Environmental Ethics," and "Ethical Theory." Her current research projects focus on (1) the relationship between care ethics and internal family systems therapy and (2) fear, courage, and relational resilience in the ethics classroom. Her recent publications include "Queer Care and Pleasure Activism" forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics, "Teaching Moral Emotions" with Daniel Haggerty in Teaching Ethics, "Obstacles to Empathetic Listening After Sexual Violence" with Elspeth Campbell '18 in Hypatia, and "Blaming from Inside the Birdcage: Strawsonian Accounts of Blame and Feminist Care Ethics" in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. Amy also serves as the Director of the Ethics Across Campus & the Curriculum program and she is currently leading work on the Dickinson Core Values Project. She welcomes students to contact her with questions about the Ethics minor, or just to chat about Nietzsche, care ethics, Severance, or The Good Place.
Education
- B.A., The University of Scranton, 2007
- M.A., American University, 2011
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2017