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Travis Timmerman is Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. His research focuses on normative ethics (actualism/possibilism debate, harm), applied ethics (animal welfare, global poverty, monuments), and philosophy of death (posthumous harm, temporal bias). He holds a PhD from Syracuse University and multiple degrees from Arizona State University. Notable awards include a $40k Open Philanthropy grant (2023) and Seton Hall's Researcher of the Year (2020). Current projects include a philosophy of death book under contract with Oxford University Press and work on the Moral Weight Project with Rethink Priorities.
Education: PhD & MA (Philosophy, Syracuse U); MA & BS (Political Science, ASU); BA (Philosophy, ASU). Grants include NEH funding (2017) and University Research Council support (2022). His applied ethics work addresses controversial topics like Confederate monuments removal and effective altruism prioritization.
Research interests coalesce around foundational ethical questions with real-world implications. Recent work examines welfare capacity across species (via neuron-count metrics) and temporal bias in death anxiety. His book projects aim to redefine understanding of mortality's moral dimensions.
Awards reflect recognition of both scholarly contribution and public-facing philosophy. Active in interdisciplinary collaborations, he bridges analytic philosophy with practical moral dilemmas. Contact via his Seton Hall profile or PhilPapers page for access to unreleased manuscripts.
