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 a member of the Philosophy and Medicine committee for the American Philosophical Association, serving as abstract chair and a member of the program committee 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 laura.specker (at) gmail.com and lspeckersullivan (at) fordham.edu.
Finally, my CV is below.
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 a member of the Philosophy and Medicine committee for the American Philosophical Association, serving as abstract chair and a member of the program committee 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 laura.specker (at) gmail.com and lspeckersullivan (at) fordham.edu.
Finally, my CV is below.