Alan Tomhave

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Dr. Alan Tomhave

Associate Dean

Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences & Educ

DeBartolo Hall 106

phone: (330) 941-3447

aetomhave@ysu.edu

  • 2008

    Ph D, Philosophy

    University of Missouri

  • 2007

    MA, Philosophy

    University of Missouri

  • 1997

    MA, Eastern Classics

    St. John's College

  • 1996

    BA, Philosophy

    University of Texas

  • 2022

    Watson Merit Award for Chairs

  • 2021 -

    Youngstown State University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

    Professor

  • 2020 - 2021

    Youngstown State University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

    Associate Professor

  • 2015 - 2020

    Youngstown State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

    Associate Professor

  • 2009 - 2015

    Youngstown State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

    Assistant Professor

  • 2008 - 2009

    Occidental College, Department of Philosophy

    Visiting Assistant Professor

  • 2022 - present

    Associate Dean

  • 2020 - 2022

    Department Chairperson

  • 2016 - 2020

    Department Chairperson

  • 2022

    "Fictive Narrative Philosophy as Necessary in the Classroom"

    A. Tomhave

    Springer International Publishing, p. 213-226

  • 2020

    "Boycotts and Silencing: A Response to Jeremy V. Davis (2020), ‘Expressive Acts, and Withdrawal of Support"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

    Business Ethics Journal Review, volume 8, issue 3, p. 14-19

  • 2020

    "Ethics of Boycotts"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

    Springer International Publishing, p. 1-3

  • 2020

    "Business of Boycotting"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

    Springer International Publishing, p. 1-3

  • 2020

    "Boycotts and Silencing"

    A. Tomhave, M. Vopat

  • 2020

    "Boycotting as a Social Movement"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

    Springer International Publishing, p. 1-3

  • 2018

    "Business Ethics: The Big Picture"

    A. Tomhave, M. Vopat

    Broadview Press

  • 2018

    "The Role of Teaching Ethics in Teaching Ethics Across the Curriculum"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

  • 2018

    "The Role of Teaching Ethics in Teaching Ethics Across the Curriculum"

    A. Tomhave, M. Vopat

    Springer International Publishing, p. 107-114

  • 2016

    "The Business of Boycotting: Having Your Chicken and Eating It Too"

    A. Tomhave, M. Vopat

    Journal of Business Ethics

  • 2013

    "On the Disconnect Between Business and Professional Ethics"

    M. Vopat, A. Tomhave

    Teaching Ethics, volume 13, issue 2, p. 93–105

  • 2011

    "Civility as a Condition of Citizenship"

    A. Tomhave

  • 2010

    "Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles, and the Buddhist Conception of the Self"

    A. Tomhave

    Philosophy East and West, volume 60, issue 4

  • 2015 - 2019

    Editor, Journal Editor
    Teaching Ethics (Journal for Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum

  • 2019 - 2022

    Board Member
    Montessori School of the Mahoning Valley

  • 2014 - 2018

    Board Member
    Montessori School of the Mahoning Valley

Alan Tomhave

Alan Tomhave is the Associate Dean for the Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education and Professor of Philosophy. He has been at YSU since 2009. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri. His research focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy, with special emphasis on the nature of the state and concepts related to the state (e.g., citizenship). He started the YSU Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl program and was the co-coach for YSU’s 2020 national championship win. He regularly teaches Introduction to Philosophy and Social and Political Philosophy. He has had many students go on to the best graduate and law programs in the country.

Prior to his Ph.D. work, Dr. Tomhave Studied Philosophy at the University of Texas (B.A, 1996) and Eastern Classics at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM (M.A., 1997). He also taught English in Korea and Japan for four years.