eric matthew peterson

i am a philosopher and business ethicist

I am an Assistant Professor of Practice in Business Ethics at the Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University.

I am also the Managing Editor for The Junkyard, a scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination.

Publications:

“Attention to Details: Imagination, Attention, and Epistemic Significance” in Epistemic Uses of Imagination eds. Amy Kind and Christopher Badura (June 2021)

“Virtue Ethics” (with Andy Gustafson) in Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Professional Ethics eds. Deborah C. Poff and Alex C. Michalos (August 2020)

“Imaginative Resistance and Variation” British Journal of Aesthetics (Jan. 2019)

“From Intellectual Courage to Moral Courage: A Commentary on Comer and Schwartz,” 2018, Bus Ethics J Rev 6(5): 24-29

Works Under Review:

“Implicit Imaginative Resistance” (under review) (I am expanding a recent scholarly blog post of mine. Check it out here.)

On The Relation Between Imagining and Supposing (under review)

Works in Progress:

“Thought Experiments as a kind of Genre” (I am expanding a recent scholarly blog post of mine. Check it out here.)

J. Klevin, A. Marcoux, E. Peterson, and M. Thomas, The View from the Demand Side: The Next Phase of the Price-Gouging Debate.

“The Value and Scope of Heath’s Market Failure Approach: A Response to Critics” (with Andy Gustafson)

Future Projects:

I am currently working on a project that will bridge the philosophy of imagination literature with the moral imagination literature in business ethics. (More to come)