I'm Spencer Case, a writer, podcaster, and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Bowling Green State University philosophy department in Bowling Green, Ohio. Welcome to my webpage!
A bit about myself: I completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University Colorado Boulder in 2018. From 2019-2021 I was an international research fellow at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China, where I witnessed the onset of the pandemic and met my lovely wife, May. We are now the proud parents of our adorable son, Elijah. I'm coauthor, along with Matt Lutz, of Is Morality Real? A Debate, which is published through Routledge. You can order it here. A second book, Why It's Ok to be Patriotic, is now in the works. A third project, an anthology of essays by philosophers with military experience, is also underway. I'm co-editing this with Jesse Hamilton and Mark Zelcer, it's tentatively titled Front Line Philosophy. I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army and I deployed twice as part of the Global War on Terrorism: to Iraq (2005-2006) and to Afghanistan (2009-10). I like writing, reading (especially about philosophy, history, and politics), podcasting, listening to jazz, and swing dancing. Right now, I'm also getting into playing the harmonica (both diatonic and chromatic). My main philosophical research area is the nature of normativity (i.e., "ought-ness"), but I've got interests in other areas, too. Really, all aspects of philosophy interest me. The top photo, which I took in 2013, is a stone corridor from Petra, Jordan that leads to the famous treasury building. On the right-hand side of the page from top to bottom, that's me; next is me together with my wife, May a day after our first anniversary; and then. To the right is Elijah at three months old; just below that is Elijah on my shoulders at about 9 months old. Below, May and I are hiking in China with my mom digitally present. |