Russell W. Waltz holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an EdD in Higher Education Leadership from Maryville University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Galen College of Nursing, where he serves as faculty lead for the applied ethics and constitutional studies sequences. He also holds teaching appointments at Chamberlain University, Maryville University, and Oakland Community College.
His research focuses on social and political theory, media ethics, implicit bias, and pragmatism. His current book manuscript, Honest Deception: Haptic Pragmatism for a Post-Objective World (under review at Bloomsbury Academic), …
Russell W. Waltz holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an EdD in Higher Education Leadership from Maryville University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Galen College of Nursing, where he serves as faculty lead for the applied ethics and constitutional studies sequences. He also holds teaching appointments at Chamberlain University, Maryville University, and Oakland Community College.
His research focuses on social and political theory, media ethics, implicit bias, and pragmatism. His current book manuscript, Honest Deception: Haptic Pragmatism for a Post-Objective World (under review at Bloomsbury Academic), argues that the transmission model of knowledge fails wherever it is applied because the view from nowhere is metaphysically impossible. The book develops three principles for post-objective knowledge practice in journalism, education, and AI information systems. These are principled transparency, narrative pluralism, and the primacy of verification. His doctoral work, Hybrid Accounts, established the philosophical and psychological foundations of information distortion through news presentation, with related chapters and articles in Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century (Springer, 2014) and the Journal of College and Character (2021). A co-edited volume, Critical Pedagogical Strategies to Transcend Hegemonic Masculinity (Peter Lang, 2021), gathers his work on implicit bias and pedagogical practice.
Waltz serves as Technology Chair on the Executive Committee of AMINTAPHIL (the American Association of Legal and Social Philosophy) and was Editor-in-Chief of Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy at the University of Kansas from 2009 to 2013.
