I’m a philosophy professor and law enforcement officer. From 2017-2023, I was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Humanities, and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas Grantham. Currently, I divide my time between teaching philosophy and working in both local and federal law enforcement. I’m also a Research Fellow at the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center.
My teaching and research interests are in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and criminal justice ethics. I have written on a wide array of topics, including abortion, sexual ethics, the morality of hunting and eating meat, drug control, gun control, police shootings, immigration, and corporal punishment.
I also have occasional interests in the philosophy of religion, specifically in arguments for the existence of God (natural theology).
Check out my CV for a full list of my published works. You can find me on Facebook, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn.
I have over 30 op-eds in various popular outlets, including Quillette, The Federalist, Washington Times, Public Discourse, and Human Events.
My interest in law enforcement grew from teaching topics in applied ethics that overlapped with the criminal justice system. While still teaching full-time, I attended the police academy. I also have specialized training in crisis intervention (CIT), advanced roadside impaired driving enforcement (ARIDE), and field training officer (FTO) certification.
Outside of philosophy, I’m an avid practitioner of shooting sports and self-defense training. I hold multiple certifications as a firearms instructor.
I attend Southpoint church of Christ in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Selected Academic Publications
A full list of publications + PDFs can be found here.
- “Eat, Drink, and Be Sober: The Case for Drug Prohibition” [NEW]
in Steven Cowan (ed), Problems in Applied Ethics (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
- “Jesus, Guns, and Luke 22:36: A Response to Barrigar”
Evangelical Quarterly 95:3 (2024)
- “Did American Police Originate from Slave Patrols?”
Academic Questions 36:3 (2023)
- “A Simple Argument for Respecting Conscience“
The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 22:3 (2023)
- “The Lived Experience Fallacy“
Academic Questions 35:2 (2022)
- “If Homosexuality is Wrong, So is Contraception“
Philosophia Christi 24:1 (2022)
- “Does Jesus Endorse Armed Self-Defense in Luke 22:36?“
Evangelical Quarterly 92:4 (2021)
- “The Contingency Argument in Plain Language“
(with Gil Sanders) The Heythrop Journal (2021)
- “Guns on Campus: A Defense”
(with Kyle Blanchette) in Bob Fischer (ed), College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You 2nd ed (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- “A Moral Defense of Trophy Hunting“
Sport, Ethics, and Philosophy 14:1 (2020)
- “There is Nothing Wrong with Eating Meat” and “Human Lives Matter: Reflections on Human Exceptionalism“
in Paul Copan and Wes Jamison (eds), What Would Jesus Really Eat? The Biblical Case for Eating Meat (Castle Quay, 2019) [Email to request PDF]
- “The Case for Marijuana Prohibition”
Ethics & Medicine 35:1 (2019)
- “The Moral Case for Gun Ownership”
in Bob Fischer (ed), Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues that Divide Us (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- “Industrial Farming is Not Cruel to Animals“
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 30:1 (2017)
- “Consenting Adults, Sex, and Natural Law Theory”
Philosophia 44:2 (2016)
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Selected Popular Articles
A full list of over 30 articles + links can be found here.
Contact Information
timhsiaojr@gmail.com
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