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Carrie Peffley Adjunct Instructor CAS | Philosophy and Religion

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Carrie Peffley
CAS | Philosophy/Religion
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Battelle-Tompkins
Bio
Carrie Peffley holds graduate degress from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Her main areas of interest are history of philosophy and ethics. As a historian of philosophy, she works on medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophy, and is interested in the transmission of ideas across culture, as well as the boundaries between philosophy, theology, and science. As an ethicist, she focuses on virtue and feminist ethics, and is interested in ethics educational curricula.
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Teaching

Fall 2025

  • PHIL-220 Moral Philosophy

Spring 2026

  • PHIL-120 Do the Right Thing

  • PHIL-120 Do the Right Thing

  • PHIL-380 Colloquium in Philosophy: Different Ways of Knowing