Faculty Profile for Dr. Isaac Wiegman

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Dr. Isaac Wiegman
Assoc Professor of Instruction — Philosophy
CMAL 107G
phone: (512) 245-3141

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Wiegman, I. T. (n.d.). Disgust as a Mechanism for Externalization: Coordination and Disassociation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e117.
  • Wiegman, I. T. (2018). Ethics in Conversation. Top Hat Monocle.
  • Wiegman, I. T., & Dale, M. (2024). The Co-Evolution of Virtue and Desert: Debunking Intuitions about Intrinsic Value. Synthese, 204(4), 135. Retrieved from https://rdcu.be/dWvc9
  • Wiegman, I. T. (2023). Doubts about Retribution: Is Punishment Non-instrumentally Good or Right? In M. Altman (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment (pp. 125–147). Springer Nature.
  • Wiegman, I. T., & Fischer, B. (2022). Disgust and the Logic of Contamination: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Norm (Over)Compliance. Mind & Language, 37(5), 993–1010. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.12368

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Finalist for Top Author Award, Top Hat. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State Alumni Association. 2020

Selected Grants

  • Wiegman, Isaac. NSF Travel Grant for the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Texas State University, Federal, $180. (Funded: November 30, 2016). Grant.
  • Wiegman, Isaac Thane. Prime Movers: A Theory of the Primitive Passions, ACLS, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $5000. (Funded: July 2023 - August 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Research Committee
2017-Present
Member
Faculty Pre-Health Committee
2016-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
2020-2020
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Social Philosophy
2019-2020
Reviewer / Referee
Synthese
2019-2019