Philosophy

Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1994
• MA, Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1991
• BS, Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University, 1988

Interests and Expertise

Professor Dieterle's current research focuses on food justice and food ethics.

Teaching interests

• Food ethics
• Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Logic
• Ethics

Courses

• PHIL 220 Ethics
• PHIL 223 Medical Ethics
• PHIL 224 Ethics and Food
• PHIL 281 Symbolic Logic
• PHIL 325W Theory of Knowledge
• PHIL 375W Metaphysics
• PHIL 423W/523 Philosophical Perspectives on Disability
• PHIL 424W/524 Food Justice
• PHIL 427W/527 Social Epistemology

Publications and Presentations

• “Identity and Food Choice:  You Are What You Eat?” With Zachary Tobias. Food Ethics 8, 2023, doi.org/10.1007/s41055-022-00118-y.
• “Wilbur on Drugs:  Antimicrobial Use in Hog CAFOs.”  With Wade Tornquist. In Interdisciplinary Environmental Ethics in the Midwest, ed. Ian Smith and Matt Ferkany.  Michigan State University Press (2022).
• “Agency and Autonomy in Food Choice:  Can We Really Vote with Our  Forks?” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 35 (2022), doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09878-3.
• "Shifting the Focus:  Food Choice, Paternalism, and State Regulation."  Food Ethics 5 (2), 2020.
• “Cooptation or Solidarity:  Food Sovereignty in the Developed World.”  With Mark Christopher Navin. Agriculture and Human Values 35 (2), June 2018, 319 – 329.
• “Autonomy, Values, and Food Choice," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (3), 2016, 349–367.    
• Just Food: Philosophy, Justice and Food. Edited volume. Rowman and Littlefield International, November, 2015.  
• “Affording Disaster: Concealed Carry on Campus.” With W. John Koolage. Public Affairs Quarterly 28 (2), April, 2014, 115–145. 
• “Social Construction in the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Critical Evaluation of Julian Cole’s Theory.” Philosophia Mathematica 18 (3), 2010, 311–328. 
• “Unnecessary Suffering.” Environmental Ethics 30, Spring, 2008, 51–67. 
• “Freedom of Conscience, Employee Prerogatives and Consumer Choice: Veal, Birth Control, and Tanning Beds.” The Journal of Business Ethics 77, January 2008, 191–203. 
• “Physician Assisted Suicide – A New Look at the Arguments.” Bioethics 21, March 2007, 127–39.  
• “Affirmative Action and Desert.” Public Affairs Quarterly 19, April 2005, 81–94.
• “Ockham’s Razor, Encounterability, and Ontological Naturalism.” Erkenntnis 55, July 2001, 51–72.
• “Supervenience and Necessity:  A Response to Balaguer.” Philosophia Mathematica 8, 2000, 302–309.
• “Mathematical, Astrological, and Theological Naturalism.” Philosophia Mathematica 7, 1999, 129–135.  
• “Julius Caesar and the Number 2.” Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5, Special Topics Issue:  Methods of Ontology, 1997.