JASON FARR
ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

                                     

Curriculum Vitae

Jason Farr  

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Georgetown University | July 2022 - Present
Assistant Teaching Professor, Ethics Lab

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Georgetown University | Aug 2021 - July 2022                                

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics Lab

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EDUCATION

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Georgetown University | Aug 2015 - Aug 2021                          

Ph.D. in Philosophy                                                                          

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Northern Illinois University | Aug 2012-May 2015

M.A. in Philosophy                                                                                                               

University of Virginia | Aug 2006-May 2009

B.A. in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law  

 

                                                                

DISSERTATION

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Metaethics is Social: Broadening Social Themes in Expressivism and Kantian Constructivism

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Committee Chair: Margaret Little

Committee Members: Mark Murphy and Mark Lance

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PUBLICATIONS

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Lisa Singh, Agorista Polyzou, Yanchen Wang, and Jason Farr, “Social Media
  Data – Our Ethical Conundrum,” IEEP Data Engineering Bulletin, Special
  Issue on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness and Artificial Intelligence

  Systems, Accepted and Forthcoming.

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

Fritz Fellowship - Georgetown University | 2020

• Awarded an interdisciplinary fellowship under Ethics Lab and the Computer Science department at Georgetown University to study the ethics of conducting social media research with machine-learning algorithms.

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Rafelson Essay Prize - Northern Illinois University | 2015

• Awarded to one philosophy graduate student per year for outstanding achievement in philosophical essay writing.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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Georgetown University

 

Instructor of Record

 

• PHIL135: Intro to Tech, Ethics, and Society | Spring 2022
   

• PHIL110: Social Media and Democracy | Fall 2021
   

• PHIL109: Ethics of AI | Spring 2021, Fall 2022
   

• PHIL105: Bioethics | Fall 2020
   

• PHIL148: Meta-Ethics | Spring 2020
   

• PHIL124: Environmental Ethics  | Fall 2019
   

• PHIL010: Introduction to Ethics | Summer 2018, 2016
   

• PHIL020: Introduction to Philosophy | Summer 2017

 

Teaching Assistant

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• PHIL099: Political and Social Thought, Madison Powers | Spring 2018

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• PHIL099: Political and Social Thought, Terry Pinkard | Fall 2017

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• PHIL010: Introduction to Philosophy, Judith Lichtenberg | Spring 2017
   

• PHIL020: Introduction to Philosophy, James Mattingly | Fall 2016
   

• PHIL010 (Grader only): Introduction to Ethics, James Olsen | Spring 2016                                            

• PHIL 010: Introduction to Ethics, Nancy Sherman | Fall 2015

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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• “A Social Account of the Game of Assertion,”
  Gateway Graduate Conference: Philosophy in a Social World | 2019

 

• Comments on Yarran Hominh’s “Oppressive Social Practices and the Explanation of Individual Action”
  Georgetown University MAP Conference: Understanding Oppression | 2018

 

• “Quasi-Realism and Objectivity”
  Northern Illinois university, Rafelson Colloquium | 2015

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• “Courses of Action and Consequences”
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate Philosophy Conference | 2014

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• Comments on Tatyana Kostochka’s “Just Another Epistemic Goal: The Value of Truth and the Disengaged Standpoint”
  Northern Illinois University, 7th Annual Northern Graduate Conference | 2013

 

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

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• Conference Presentation Chair, American Philosophical Association | 2021

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• Organization Committee, Georgetown MAP Conference: Understanding Oppression | 2018
   

• Volunteer, Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association | 2014
   

• Organizer, 7th Annual Northern Graduate Conference in Philosophy | 2013
   

• Philosophy Graduate Student Advisory Council, Northern Illinois University | 2013
   

• Facilitator, Northern Illinois University Bold Futures Workshops | 2015

 

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GRADUATE COURSES TAKEN

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Georgetown University

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Spring 2020

• Special Topics in Bioethics (Audit)

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Spring 2017

• Hegel

• Nicomachean Ethics

• Pragmatics and Social Reality

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Fall 2016

• Kant

• Rawls

• Ethics Proseminar

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Spring 2016

• Intermediate Logic (Meta-Logic)

• Social Epistemology

• Metaphysics Proseminar

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Fall 2015

• Epistemology Proseminar

• Aristotle’s Biology

• Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein

 

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Northern Illinois University

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Spring 2015

• Global Justice (Audit)

• Metaphysics (Audit)

• Paradoxes (Audit)

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Fall 2014

• Disagreement

• Ethical Theory: Paternalism (Audit)

• Metaphysics: What are you (Audit)

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Spring 2014

• Philosophy of Logic: Truth

• Free Will

• Political Philosophy (Audit)

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Fall 2013

• Directed Readings: Climate Change and Moral Philosophy

• Consequentialism

• Philosophy of Mind: Physicalism

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Spring 2013

• Truth Conditional Pragmatics

• Practical Reasoning

• 20th Century Analytic Philosophy

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Fall 2012

• Intermediate Logic

• Advanced Ethical Theory

• Epistemology

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University of Virginia

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Fall 2011

• Capitalism and Human Good

• Thomas Reid

 

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OTHER WORK & SERVICE EXPERIENCE

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Nature Camp Foundation

   Board of Directors, Member At-Large (service) | 2018 - present

• Attend and participate in bi-annual budget meetings and give input on matters from scholarships to diversification to meal and salary budgeting.

• Strategize on format and execution of Foundation events, including service weekinds, fall hikes, member reunions, etc.

• Nominate members for and aid in development of Nature Camp Inc. board of directors.

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Nature Camp, Inc.

   Instructor / Counselor | 2006-2011 (Assistant Director in 2011)

• Designed and taught two-week courses for 6th through 12th grade students.

• Courses taught include:

  • Introduction to Environmental Ethics

  • Dendrology: Plant Communities & Migration in the Southern Appalachians

  • Introduction to Botany

  • Energy and Waste Systems in the United States

  • Environmental Effects of Agriculture

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Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Il

   Graduate Assistant, Internship Office for Humanities Majors | August 2012-May 2015

• Counsel one-on-one with students looking for internships.

• Present short lectures on internship opportunities in various classes.

• Edit and review student résumés and cover letters.

• Design and maintain website for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Internship Offices.

• Manage marketing, including social media, brochures and fliers.

 

Relayfoods.com

(An Online grocery service geared toward local foods and sustainability)

   Personal Assistant to COO and President, Charlottesville, Va | August 2011-February 2012

• Managed President’s schedule and company-related expenditures.

• Wrote and edited emails for President.

• Coordinated meetings and interviews for President and CEO.

• Redesigned and implemented website search queries, product trees, and product categorization for thousands of online products.

 

   Team Leader, Richmond, Va | August 2010-August 2011

• Managed team of 10 in daily operations of relayfoods.com Richmond.

• Oversaw transportation of goods from farms and stores to fulfillment center, sorting of products, and distribution to sites around the city.

• Helped design methods and procedures for operations associates.

 

   Operations Associate, Charlottesville, Va | January 2010-August 2010

• Transported goods from farms and stores to fulfillment center and then out to sites around the city.

• Sorted incoming products into outgoing customer bins.

• Helped design and implement sorting and transportation processes for relayfoods.com.

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MISCELANEOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike | Feb 2012-Jul 2012

• Planned and executed a 2,180 mile solo hike from Georgia to Maine.

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