Curriculum Vitae
Shmuel Gomes
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, Philosophy (in-progress)
M.A. Tufts University, Philosophy, 2017
B.A. Cal Poly Humboldt, Philosophy, summa cum laude, 2014
SPECIALIZATION & COMPETENCE
AOS: Ethics, Metaethics, Metaphysics
AOC: Environmental Ethics, History of Western Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS
“Whitehead on the Experience of Causality,” Process Studies 1 April 2015; 44 (1): 63-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/44798052
PRESENTATIONS
"Well-being as Essential Attributive Goodness"
FrankMeta.6, June 2024
“A Case for the Moral Standing of Insentient Beings"
Annual Southwest Philosophy Graduate Conference, April 2024
UT Austin Philosophy Graduate Conference, February 2024
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2022
Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference, July 2022
“The Essential Value of Persons”
Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, August 2022
COMMENTS
On Ken Shockley's “Environmental Harm, What Could it Be?” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2023.
TEACHING
INSTRUCTOR | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Bioethics | Fall 2024
Environmental Ethics | Summer 2024
Contemporary Moral Issues: Human Equality* | Summer 2022
TEACHING ASSISTANT | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Philosophy of Law | for Carl Cranor, Spring 2024
Language, Mind, and Reality | for Barry Lam, Winter 2024
Evil | for Howard Wettstein, Winter 2023
Intro to Logic | for Erich Reck, Fall 2022
Intro to Philosophy* | for John Fisher, Spring 2022
Critical Thinking* | for Joshua Wood, Winter 2022
Biomedical Ethics* | for Joshua Wood, Fall 2021
Contemporary Moral Issues* | for Jonathan Baker, Summer 2021
Intro to Law and Society* | for Maxwell McCoy, Summer 2021
Intro to Philosophy* | for John Fisher, Spring 2021
Ethics and the Meaning of Life* | for Kim Frost, Winter 2021
* indicates class taught online
TEACHING ASSISTANT | TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Science, Technology, and Society | for Moon Duchin, Spring 2017
Language and Mind | for Brian Epstein, Fall 2016
Intro to Ethics | for David Denby, Spring 2016
SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTOR | CAL POLY HUMBOLDT
Guided Study in Logic | Supplemental Student Instructor, 2012 - 2013
SELECTED GRADUATE COURSEWORK
Course Title | Instructor | ^ indicates independent study; * indicates audit
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Aspect Perception* | Erich Reck
Essence, Substance, Identity ^* | Michael Nelson
The Moral Status of Human Beings* | Agnieszka Jaworska
Kant’s Moral Theory* | Andrews Reath
Internalism and Externalism about Reasons ^* | Andrews Reath
Actions and Events | Kim Frost
Plotinus | Jozef Müller
Rousseau | Andrews Reath
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus | Erich Reck
Wittgenstein’s On Certainty | Howard Wettstein
The Ontology of Collectives | Adam Harmer
Action and Perception | Michael Nelson
Maimonides’ The Guide of the Perplexed ^ | Howard Wettstein
Introduction to Metalogic | Erich Reck
Motivation | Agnieszka Jaworska
Theories of Ethics | Andrews Reath
Descartes and Leibniz | Adam Harmer
Nagel and The Absurd | Howard Wettstein
Constitutivism | Michael Nelson
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Theories of Value | Sigrún Svavarsdóttir
Phenomenology and Existentialism | Avner Baz
Skeptics, Stoics, and Hedonists | Christiana Olfert
Plato’s and Aristotle’s Ethics | Christiana Olfert
Philosophy of Criminal Justice | Erin Kelly
Formal Logic | George Smith
PHILOSOPHY FOR NON-ACADEMIC AUDIENCES
Presentations for Cancer for College Alumni Groups
“Thinking About the Good Life” (x2)
“Empathy, Altruism, and Respect: A User's Guide” (x2)
Podcast Interviews
Interview with The Philosopher's Nest
AWARDS
Distinguished TA Award, UCR, 2023
The Harrah Prize in Applied Philosophy, UCR, for “A Case for the Moral Standing of Insentient Beings”, 2022
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, UCR, for "The Essential Value of Persons", 2022
REFEREEING
The Journal of Ethics
LANGUAGES
English (native); Hebrew (reading)