Wes Siscoe
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Weston Siscoe is a postdoctoral fellow with the Virtues & Vocations project, a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. As a member of the project, Siscoe assists with faculty workshops and conferences and conducts scholarly research on pedagogical techniques designed to inculcate moral virtue.
Before coming to the Center for Social Concerns, Siscoe received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Arizona. Siscoe has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne’s Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition, a Dean’s postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University, and the Mellon Course Design Coordinator for the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project. His research explores the connections between rationality and virtue ethics, and his work has appeared in Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers’ Imprint, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, amongst other venues. He is also a pedagogy contributor at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, the Daily Nous, Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia, and The Philosopher’s Cocoon.