David R. Cummiskey
Professor of Philosophy
Associations
Philosophy
Hedge Hall, Room 306
About
Ph.D., M.A., University of Michigan; B.A., Washington College
David Cummiskey teaches courses on biomedical ethics, philosophy of law, and seminars on moral theory, contemporary liberalism, and Buddhist philosophy. His research and publications focus on Kantian and consequentialist approaches to moral philosophy, political philosophy, and intercultural ethics and bioethics. His most recent articles discuss the relationship between Buddhist and Kantian ethics, and Buddhist environmental ethics and political philosophy. He is currently working on a series of articles that develop the relationships among Buddhist perfectionism, emergent conceptions of agency, compatibilist conceptions of free will, Kantian accounts of self-constitution, and Humean constructivism.
Professional Presentations and Activities
David Cummiskey’s Academia.edu page