Dr. Eugene V. Torisky, Jr.

Associate Professor of Philosophy 

Placid Hall, Room 318
724-805-2387 (on campus ext. 2387)
eugene.torisky@stvincent.edu 

Dr. Torisky's principal teaching areas are applied and theoretical ethics, including environmental ethics and bioethics; introductory and advanced logic; and topics in political and social philosophy. His research interests include the thought of Martin Buber, Kantian ethics and supererogation (moral action that is "above and beyond the call of duty"), and the intersection of philosophy and literature. Students working with him have successfully completed senior theses on Plato's theory of democracy in the Laws and Republic, human relationships with God as Wittgensteinian language games, and analyzing utilitarianism in the light of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card and Ursula le Guin.

Education

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2001
M.A., Bowling Green State University, 1993
B.A., Bowling Green State University, 1986

Dr. Torisky's CV 

Courses Taught

Bioethics
Ethics
Ethical Problems
Environmental Ethics
First Philosophy
Logic
Political Philosophy: The Value(s) of Community
Special Topics: Philosophy of Law and Theories of Justice
Symbolic Logic

In November 2011, Dr. Torisky gave the fall philosophy colloquium, “Organ-ic Fairness and Mutual Aid: A Rawlsian Approach to Human Transplantation.”