Dr. Alan Preti

Education & Licensure

• PhD, Philosophy, Temple University
• MA, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• BA, Music, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

Biography

Alan A. Preti, PhD is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Rosemont College. He graduated from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville with a BA in Music and an MA in Philosophy and earned a doctorate in Philosophy from Temple University. His research areas include theoretical and applied ethics, moral education, and moral psychology. He also has interests in Asian philosophical traditions, Logic, and the History of Philosophy. 

Dr. Preti’s most recent publication is A Companion to Doing Ethics, a co-edited volume in
the Blackwell Companion series (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). He has published articles in a
number of journals, including the International Journal of Ethics and Philosophy East and
West, and has contributed chapters to Teaching Ethics – Instructional Models, Methods
and Modalities for University Studies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Ethics Across the
Curriculum – Pedagogical Perspectives (Springer, 2018), Handbook of Virtue Ethics in
Business and Management (Springer, 2017), and Developing Moral Sensitivity (Routledge,
2015).

In 2024, Dr. Preti was elected President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, an
international association dedicated to promoting ethics scholarship and pedagogy across
disciplines. From 2007 to 2020 he served on the Board of the Greater Philadelphia
Philosophy Consortium, an organization with representatives from higher education
institutions in the Philadelphia area devoted to bringing philosophy into the public square.

Courses 

• Biomedical Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Critical Thinking
• Ethical Theory (honors and non-honors)
• Ethics and Social Values (honors and non-honors)
• History of Western Philosophy I: Ancient and Medieval
• History of Western Philosophy II: Early Modern
• Leadership Ethics (honors and non-honors)
• Logic: The Art of Reasoning
• Questions That Matter: An Introduction to Philosophy (honors and non-honors)
• Religion, Reason, and Humanity: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
• Senior Seminar
• Social and Political Philosophy
• What is Justice? (honors)