Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston and the Director of Ethics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Before Charleston, I was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics. From 2015-2017, I was a postdoctoral neuroethics fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington and at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia. From 2013-2015 I was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University's Kokoro Research Center, funded by a scholarship from the Crown Prince Akihito Foundation. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawai'i in 2015.
My interest in cross-cultural ethics and neuroscience began at Williams College, where I received a grant to study the ethics of brain death and organ transplantation in Tokyo. This led me to teach English in Niigata, Japan from 2008-2009 with the JET Programme.
Some of my current activities include being the category leader for philosophy/history for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities' 2021 Conference, serving on the program and nominating committees for the International Neuroethics Society, and working with the Science for Monks program in India as a visiting scholar.
You can find a description of my research and a selection of publications and presentations here. I describe my teaching and provide descriptions of sample courses here.
I can be reached at lspeckersullivan (at) fordham.edu.
Finally, a (somewhat regularly updated) CV is below. I update the "research" page of this site more frequently than I update my CV.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston and the Director of Ethics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Before Charleston, I was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics. From 2015-2017, I was a postdoctoral neuroethics fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington and at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia. From 2013-2015 I was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University's Kokoro Research Center, funded by a scholarship from the Crown Prince Akihito Foundation. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawai'i in 2015.
My interest in cross-cultural ethics and neuroscience began at Williams College, where I received a grant to study the ethics of brain death and organ transplantation in Tokyo. This led me to teach English in Niigata, Japan from 2008-2009 with the JET Programme.
Some of my current activities include being the category leader for philosophy/history for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities' 2021 Conference, serving on the program and nominating committees for the International Neuroethics Society, and working with the Science for Monks program in India as a visiting scholar.
You can find a description of my research and a selection of publications and presentations here. I describe my teaching and provide descriptions of sample courses here.
I can be reached at lspeckersullivan (at) fordham.edu.
Finally, a (somewhat regularly updated) CV is below. I update the "research" page of this site more frequently than I update my CV.