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Department: History

Email: sfarrell@allegheny.edu

Office Phone: (814) 332-5323

Office Building: Arter Hall

Office Room: 116

Box #: 27

Professional Title/s

Visiting Associate Professor

Faculty Credentials

B.A. Hons (University of Cape Town); D.Phil. (Oxford University)

Biographical Information

Current Research Interests

• Medical Ethics (Ethical problems in end-of-life care; French medical ethics)
• Global Health Ethics (Humanitarianism; Disaster Bioethics)
• Philosophy of Literature (The relation between literature and the world)

Courses Recently Taught

• PHIL 385 Medical Ethics
• PHIL 260 Ancient Greek Philosophy
• PHIL 165 The Examined Life: Philosophy Through the Ages
• PHIL 220 Epistemology
• PHIL 250 Philosophy and the Arts
• PHIL 205 Literature, Film and Medicine: Ethical Perspectives
• PHIL 580 The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Junior Seminar)
• PHIL 580 Philosophy, Truth and Post-Truth (Junior Seminar)
• GHS 130 Introduction to Global Health (GHS program)
• GHS 235 Global Health Ethics (GHS program)
• GHS 475 Global Health Governance (GHS program)

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