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Timothy Sommers
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Office:
James Blair 132
Email:
[[tsommers]]
Dept. Office Phone:
757-221-2716
Background
Tim Sommers received his BA from Michigan State University, his MA from Brown University, and his PhD from University of Iowa. Tim specializes in ethical, political, and legal philosophy. At W&M, Tim teaches ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of law.
Before coming to W&M, Tim taught at Georgetown University, Louisiana State University, and Pace University in addition to community colleges. Over the last six years, Tim has written more than seventy essays on a wide variety of topics in philosophy for the award-winning website 3 Quarks Daily. His columns typically receive ten to twenty thousand page views.
Research Interests
Tim’s research is primarily in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He’s currently working on developing and defending an original distributive principle he calls “Range Egalitarianism.”