Steven Fesmire

Steven Fesmire is Professor of Philosophy at Radford University. He was President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from 2022-2024. His public philosophy work—most of which has been in the ambit of ethics, education, and politics—has appeared in places such as Salon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Conversation, Huffington Post, The Humanist, The Key Reporter, Education Week, Vermont Public Radio, and Blue Ridge PBS. He is the author of Beyond Moral Fundamentalism (Oxford University Press, August 2024); John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2003), winner of a 2005 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title” award; and Dewey (Routledge Press, 2015, 2e forthcoming March 2027), winner of a 2015 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title” award. He edited The Oxford Handbook of Dewey (Oxford University Press, 2019, paperback edition 2023), and he is completing a book on Ecological Imagination. Fesmire was a 2009 Fulbright Scholar at Kyoto University and Kobe University in Japan, a 2015–16 Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, and a 2016 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to joining the Radford faculty, Fesmire was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College, and he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Green Mountain College in Vermont.