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User:Atfyfe

Andrew Thomas Fyfe
Nickname(s)	"Voodoo", "Voodoo Two", "China Voodoo" (callsigns)
Born	Texas
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	December 1999 — January 2009
Rank	Sergeant (E-5)
Unit	USASOC (A) USACAPOC (A) 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division 361st PSYOP, 345th PSYOP (A) Tactical PSYOP Detachment 1270
Commands held	Tactical PSYOP Team 127X
Battles/wars	Iraq War 2003 invasion of Iraq Al Anbar campaign Fallujah
Awards	Combat Action Badge Bronze Star Medal Order of the Spur Fort Knox Assoc. of the US Army Gen. Creighton W. Abrams Award for Military Excellence (basic training valedictorian)
Philosophy career
Alma mater	Evergreen State College (BA) University of Miami (MA) University of Washington (MA) Harvard University (visiting scholar) University of Maryland (PhD)
Era	Contemporary
School	Analytic
Main interests	Kantian Ethics

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 1 month and 3 days.

I completed my BA in philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and then an MA in philosophy at University of Miami in Miami, Florida. My thesis at Miami concerned verificationism among the pragmatists William James, FCS Schiller, and CS Peirce ("Uselessness and the Classical Pragmatists: Pragmatic, Metaphysical, and Semantic Verificationism in James, Schiller, and Peirce"). My studies at Miami focused on classic pragmatism, philosophy of science, and epistemology.

I entered the PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington but left the program in 2009 without completing a dissertation. During this time my interests shifted to Kantian moral philosophy after reading Christine Korsgaard's Sources of Normativity. From 2009 to 2015 I taught extensively at Pierce College in Washington State and then at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia as well as for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. In the fall of 2015 I returned to complete my doctoral work at the University of Maryland. In the fall of 2019 I attended Harvard University as a visiting fellow to work with Christine Korsgaard on my dissertation concerning constitutive proofs of Kant's formula of humanity ("Constructing Our Moral World: Agency, Teleology, and Korsgaard"). I successfully defended this dissertation November 9th 2022 and was granted my PhD from the University of Maryland on May 22nd 2023.

Education
Trinity High School (Euless, TX)
BA, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
MA, University of Miami (Thesis Chair: Risto Hilpinen; Committee: Peter Lewis) (Miami, FL)
MA, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Faculty sponsor: Christine Korsgaard) (Cambridge, MA)
PhD, University of Maryland (Dissertation Chair: Samuel Kerstein; Committee: Patricia Greenspan, Dan Moller, Harjit Bhogal, David Wasserman) (College Park, MD)

Academic Work History
Teaching Assistant, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Adjunct Faculty, Green River Community College (Auburn, WA)
Adjunct Faculty, Pierce College (Lakewood, WA and Puyallup, WA)
Adjunct Faculty, College of Southern Maryland (La Plata, MD)
Adjunct Faculty, University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA)
Middle School Philosophy Instructor, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (Baltimore, MD)
Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Lecturer, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Lecturer, Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)
Assistant Professor (visiting), Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey)

Publications

• "Carrying Gold to California: 'The Will to Believe' as a Work of Philosophy of Science" Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, Volume 60, Issue 2. Published Fall 2024.
• "John Stuart Mill's Beweis des Utilitarismus" Die 100 wichtigsten philosophischen Argumente. Studienausgabe, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Published 2012.
• "William James' der Wille zum Glauben" Die 100 wichtigsten philosophischen Argumente. Studienausgabe, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Published 2012.
• “Mill’s Proof of Utilitarianism”, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. First Edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Pp. 32-34. Published 2011.
  
• “James’ Will to Believe”, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. First Edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Pp. 223-228. Published 2011.
  

Academic Awards and Fellowships
Moreland Perkins Fellow, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets Fellow, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Fellow in Philosophy, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

External Links

• Andrew Fyfe - Academia.edu

U.S. military decorations Bronze Star Medal U.S. unit awards Valorous Unit Award U.S. service (campaign) medals and service and training ribbons Reserve Good Conduct Medal National Defense Service Medal Iraq Campaign Medal (with two Campaign Stars: Liberation of Iraq, Transition of Iraq); Prior to the creation of the ICM, originally awarded a Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with 'M' device) Army Service Ribbon Army Overseas Service Ribbon

U.S. badges, patches and tabs Combat Action Badge United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command Patch (left arm) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia and (right arm) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia - Former War Time Service (SSI-FWTS) 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment Patch (right arm) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia - Former War Time Service (SSI-FWTS) 3rd Infantry Division Patch (right arm) Shoulder Sleeve Insignia - Former War Time Service (SSI-FWTS) Overseas Service Bars (2) U.S. orders Order of the Spur Cavalry Hat and Spurs (Gold)

Dates of rank

Rank	Date	Rank	Date	Rank	Date	Rank	Date
Private second class	25th May 2000	Private first class	25th November 2000	Specialist	21st September 2001	Sergeant	Date of rank: 1st September 2003 Promoted in November during Operation Rifles BlitzinAl-Qa'im