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.