Michael Cholbi

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Michael Cholbi
Born1972 (age 5152)
Education University of Virginia (PhD)
Swarthmore College (BA)
Awards NEH Award, Publons Top Peer Reviewer
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Institutions University of Edinburgh (2020–)
California State Polytechnic University (2003–2020)
Brooklyn College (2000–2003)
Thesis Publicity and practical reason: Between subjectivism and Kantianism (1999)
Doctoral advisor John Marshall
Other academic advisors A. John Simmons
Talbot Brewer
George Klosko
Main interests
ethical theory, philosophy of death, philosophy of suicide
Website https://michael.cholbi.com/

Michael Cholbi (born 1972) is an American philosopher and Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his research on ethical issues related to death and dying, including suicide, grief, and immortality. Cholbi has also published work in moral psychology and Kantian ethics, as well as on topics in practical ethics such as work and labor, punishment, and paternalism. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Life and career

Cholbi was born 1972 in Portland, Oregon. He intended to pursue a career in journalism before being exposed to Enlightenment thought in his first philosophy course. [6] He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1994 and obtained his Ph.D from the University of Virginia in 1999, completing a dissertation entitled “Publicity and Practical Reason.” After spending three years as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, he went on to become Professor of Philosophy and director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy (CCEP) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. In January 2020, he joined the University of Edinburgh.

Cholbi was previously the editor of the journal Teaching Philosophy and currently serves as an associate editor for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Philosophy and Social Theory and Practice . In 2012, he founded the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying (IAPDD).

Cholbi appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy! in 2007, finishing second. [7]

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