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Chris Weigel is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University, where she has been a faculty member since 2002, starting as Assistant Professor, promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and to Professor in 2011. She served as Department Chair from 2006 to 2009 and Associate Department Chair from 2003 to 2006. Prior to joining UVU, Weigel was Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Luther College from 1999 to 2002. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University in 2000, with a dissertation titled “On the Relationship Between Conceivability and Possibility,” an M.A. in Philosophy from Temple University in 1995, a B.A. in Philosophy (cum laude) from Lawrence University in 1993, and a B.M. in Clarinet Performance (cum laude) from Lawrence University in 1993.

Weigel specializes in moral psychology, philosophy of mind, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of psychology. Her key publications include “Supererogatory Duties and Caregiver Heroic Testimony” in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (2023), “Caregiving and Moral Distress for Family Caregivers during Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease” in IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2019), “Psychological Influences on Philosophical Questions: Implications For Pedagogy” (with Alden Stout) in AAPT Studies in Pedagogy (2015), “Quotidian Confabulations: An Ethical Quandary Concerning Flashbulb Memories” in Theoretical and Applied Ethics (2014), “Revisionism’s Experimental Evidence” in Philosophical Explorations (2012), “Distance, Anger, Freedom: An Account of the Role of Abstraction in Compatibilist Free Will Intuitions” in Philosophical Psychology (2011), and “Experimental Philosophy Is Here to Stay” in Analyse & Kritik (2009). She has co-authored the textbook Living Ethics (Cengage, 2008; second edition 2011) and contributed to Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Awards include Utah Valley University Dean’s Recognition Award for Scholarly Activity (2012), Dean’s Summer Research Fellowships (2011 and 2012), Faculty Fellowship in the Liberal Arts and Sciences from the UVU Center for the Study of Ethics (2011–2012), and participation in the Experimental Philosophy of Free Will Boot Camp at Yale University (2011, Templeton Foundation) and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy (2009). Weigel has presented extensively at conferences such as the American Philosophical Association, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, and Intermountain Philosophy Society, and teaches courses including Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, and advanced topics in philosophy.