Regan Lance Reitsma, Ph.D.

Biography

Regan Lance Reitsma, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, with areas of expertise in ethics, practical rationality, and modern philosophy.

Education

• B.A., Philosophy and Classics, Calvin University
• Ph.D., Philosophy, The Ohio State University

Publications and Presentations

• “Transcendence on the Cut-Rate: the Case for More Metaphysics,” Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2024), 111-128.
• Review of The Conceptual Foundation of Morality by Gal Yehezkel, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2023), 889-892.
• “Answering Silenus: Three Perspectives on David Benatar’s Compassionate Anti-Natalism,” Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts, Vol, 1, No. 1 (2022), 3-7.
• “On Being Quite a Few Things to Quite a Few People: Ethics Pedagogy as Stratified, Personal, Utopian Nudging,” Ethics in Focus: Expositions, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2020), 9-33.
• “On the Usefulness of Being Unrealistic: Freud’s Arguments Against Neighbor Love,” From Banality to Genocide: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, edited by Kanta Dihal (Koninklijke Brill NV: 2019), 195-219.
• “Yes, the Theory is Abstemious, But . . . : A Critique of Yehezkel,” Vol. 13, No. 1, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (October, 2017), 59-79.
• “The Peculiar Flavor of Nagel’s Metaethics,” Expositions: Ethics in Focus, edited by Bernard Prusak, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2014), 11-25.
• “Freud Against Neighbor Love,” I Want To Do Bad Things: Modern Interpretations of Evil, edited by Rivka Greig and Kristen L. Bone (Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2014).
• “How a Modern-Day Hume Can Reject a Desire Categorically,” European Journal of Analytical Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2014), 48-66.
• “What’s So Bad About Bullshit?,” Concerning Evil, edited by Grace Halden and Gabriela Maldo (Inter-Disciplinary.Net: Oxford, 2013), 23-34.
• “What’s So Small About Tolerance?,” Sins, Virtues, and Vices: Dialectical Tensions in Moral Concepts, edited by Andrzej Danczak and Joshua R. Farris (Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2012), 93-100.
• “Being Moral, Being Polite,” Evil and Human Wickedness, edited by Alexandra Cheira (Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2012).
• “Should the Olympics Be the Best?: A Plea on Behalf of the Second-Rate,” Olympics and Philosophy, edited by Michael Austin and Heather Reid (Kentucky University Press: 2012).
• “Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance,” Citizenship, Pluralism, and Inclusion (Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2011).
• “Tolerance and Intellectual Humility,” Conference Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Winter 2011.
• “Is There a Moral Right to Beliefs?,” Critical Issues: Ethics and Public Life series by Interdisciplinary.Net, Winter 2011.
• “Dumbledore’s Politics,” Harry Potter and Philosophy, edited by Gregory Bassham (Blackwell: 2010), with Beth Admiraal.
• “If God Cannot Forgive, What Becomes of Harmony?,” Probing the Boundaries: Forgiveness Series by Interdisciplinary.Net, Autumn 2010).
• “If God Cannot Forgive, What Becomes of Harmony: The Strength of a Victim’s Moral Prerogative Not to Forgive,” Forgiveness in Perspective, edited by Christopher Allers and Marieke Smit (Rodopi: 2010), 89-113.
• “The Goal That Was and Wasn’t,” Think (Summer 2008), 79-84, with Gregory Bassham.
• “What Would Machiavelli Do? Confronting the Phantom-Foul-Caller in Pickup Basketball,” Philosophy and Basketball: Thinking Outside the Paint, edited by Greg Bassham and Jerry Walls (University of Kentucky Press: 2007), 57-71.
• “God, Our Commodity in Heaven: Rational Choice Theory and Religion”, Christian Scholar’s Review (Winter 2004).
• “Orthodox Behavior and Strategic Thinking: The Prospects for Democracy in Russia”, The Birth of Democracy and the Rebirth of Religion in Russia, edited by David Hoekema (St. Andrew’s Press: 2001), with Beth Admiraal.
• “Rationally Impotent Desire”, The Proceedings of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2000.

Awards and Designations

• Associate Editor, Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts

CV / Website

• via Google Drive