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Faculty Profile

Leland Saunders

Leland Saunders

Professor of Philosophy

Email: saundersl@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2038
Office:  211


Education: BS, Wheaton College, 1999; MA, Trinity Graduate School, 2002; PhD, University of Maryland, 2012. At SPU since 2012.

Dr. Leland Saunders' primary research interests are in empirical approaches to moral psychology, moral debunking arguments, character, and virtue. He also teaches a wide range of courses in value theory, including Ethical Theory, Social Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics, as well symbolic logic and UCOR 3000: Faith, Philosophy, and Science. Dr. Saunders also is coach of the SPU ethics bowl team.

Selected publications

"," Philosophical Studies (2020, early view), 1-20.

"" (with Matt Stichter), The Journal of Positive Psychology 14 (2019): 1-5.

"," Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (2018): 37-57.

"," Philosophical Explorations 19 (2016): 252-267.

"" Philosophical Psychology 28 (2015): 1-20.

"," in Jonathan Evans and Keith Frankish (eds.), In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond, 335-354. Oxford University Press, 2009.


Resources

Please see (.pdf) for a list of his publications.