Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
Placid Hall, Room 318
724-805-2387 (on campus ext. 2387)
eugene.torisky@email.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.