Office Location: 102 West Duke Building, Box 90432, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page: http://jessessummers.com

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2011

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• ETHICS 101.01, Challenges living ethical life Synopsis

  West Duke 101, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• PHIL 124FS.01, Freedom and moral obligation Synopsis

  West Duke 108B, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• HOUSECS 59.12, House course (sp top) Synopsis

  East Duke 204D, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM

• ETHICS 101.01, Challenges living ethical life Synopsis

  West Duke 101, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

• Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Soter, LK; Summers, JS. "MENTAL DISORDERS AS FAILURES OF ATTENTION." Critica-Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofia 56.167 (August, 2024): 17-44. [doi]  [abs]
• Dasgupta, J; Lockwood Estrin, G; Summers, J; Singh, I. "Cognitive Enhancement and Social Mobility: Skepticism from India." AJOB Neuroscience 14.4 (October, 2023): 341-351. [doi]
• Summers, JS. "Joshua May, Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 288. $64.00.." Utilitas 32.3 (September, 2020): 382-385. [doi]
• Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Summers, JS. "Defining addiction: A pragmatic perspective." The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction. May, 2018: 123-131.
• Summers, JS. "Post hoc ergo propter hoc: some benefits of rationalization." Philosophical Explorations 20.sup1 (March, 2017): 21-36. [doi]  [abs]