Bio:

Will is a comparative philosopher from Leeds in the UK who has studied in York London Kathmandu and the Land of enchantment. He has taught philosophy, political theory, religious studies, and composition at The University of New Mexico since 2010. Will has taught 22 difference courses and has had thousands of students, all of whom he loves. Will was recently nominated for the Affiliated Teacher of the Year award and absolutely loves teaching in the Honors College at UNM.

Education:

Will has an MA (with Distinction), 2011, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UNM, 2018, He has a graduate certificate in Sanskrit and Advanced Buddhist Hermeneutic from the Ranjung Yeshe Institute, University of Kathmandu, 2008, an M.A. in Religious Studies (with Merit) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2007 and a B.A. (with Honors) in Philosophy from York University, 2004.

Research Interest:

Will specializes in 20th Century Continental Ethical, Social, and Political Philosophy and his area of concentration is Non-Western Philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology. His research focuses on the intersection between the social and the psychic as they relate to violence, and ultimately, contesting it. This work includes A Critique of Liberal Cynicism, (Lexington 2022) and Politics, Polarity, and Peace published as part of Brill Rodopi’s Philosophy of Peace (2023). Other recent work publications include “Is Anger Ever Required? Ārya Śāntideva on Anger and its Antidotes” published in The Ethics of Anger (Lexington 2021) and “The Virtue of the Chickadee: Chief Plenty Coups’ Anti-Genocidal Ethics” – a chapter in Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World (2022). His manuscript “Virtues of Unknowing” forms the basis of one of the three courses he currently teaches at Honors.