Dr. Andrea Veltman

B.A. Eastern Illinois Univerity (Summa Cum Laude)
M.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison

Office: Cleveland 302
Phone: (540) 568-4236
Fax: (540) 568-8072
E-mail: veltmaal@jmu.edu

Dr. Veltman specializes in ethical and political philosophy and regularly teaches upper-level courses in moral theory and social and political philosophy. She is editor of Social and Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Oppression and Moral Agency (Special Issue of Hypatia, 2009) and Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington, forthcoming). She has also published articles on the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, the question of influence between Beauvoir and Sartre, and the concepts of freedom and transcendence in existentialism. She is currently working on a book on the purpose of work in human life, examining fulfilling work in the context of contemporary theories of human flourishing and distributive justice.

Selected Article Publications:
"Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt on Labor," in Hypatia, Volume 25: Number 1 (Winter 2010).
"The Concept of Transcendence in Beauvoir and Sartre" in Beauvoir, Sartre and the Riddle of Influence, edited by Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb (Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 222-240.
"The Justice of the Ordinary Citizen in Plato's Republic," in Polis: A Journal of Ancient Greek Political Thought, Volume 22: Number 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 45-59.
"The Sisyphean Torture of Housework" in Hypatia, Volume 19: Number 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 121-143.
"Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in Friendship" in The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 38: Number 2 (Spring 2004) pp. 225-239.