Jamie Phillips, PhD

Dr. Jamie Phillips has been teaching at PennWest-Clarion for 25 years, where he serves as Professor of Philosophy and teaches courses in logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of literature, and applied and professional ethics, among many others. Dr. Phillips is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, having served from 1986-1990, primarily as an intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency. He received a BA in History from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1994, a MA in Philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996 and a PhD in Philosophy with Honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999. Dr. Phillips is an active member of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Public Philosophy and since 2016 has become a strong personal advocate for using social media to educate the public on philosophical theories and schools of thought, and to provide non-academics with philosophical insight into how they might better resolve the many and varied problems forced upon them by the modern world.