Faculty Profiles

andrew pierce

Andrew Pierce

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Justice Studies
Philosophy
Justice Education
153 Spes Unica

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Education 

PhD, Loyola University Chicago
MA, Michigan State University
BA, Michigan State University

Research Interests 

  • Social and political philosophy
  • Philosophy of race
  • Critical theory
  • Pedagogies of community engagement

Courses Recently Taught 

  • PHIL 110: Introductory Philosophy
  • PHIL 220: Introduction to Logic
  • PHIL 355: Philosophy of Law
  • JUST 250: Introduction to Justice Studies

Professional Experience 

  • Sacred Heart University, faculty, philosophy

Creative and Scholarly Work 

  • Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012
  •  “Integration without Gentrification,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 35(1). January 2021
  • “Whose Lives Matter? The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Contested Legacy of Philosophical Humanism,” Journal of Social Philosophy, (51)2. 2020.
  • “Justice without Solidarity? Collective Identity and the Fate of the ‘Ethical’ in Habermas’ Recent Political Theory,” forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy, 26(1). 2018
  • “Interest Convergence: An Alternative to White Privilege Models of Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Practice,” Teaching Philosophy, vol. 39 no. 4. 2016.
  • “The Myth of the White Minority,” Critical Philosophy of Race. Vol 3 no. 2. 2015.