Getty Lustila
Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Getty L. Lustila is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Associate Director of the Humanities Center. Getty earned his PhD in Philosophy from Boston University in 2019. He is trained as a specialist in early modern European philosophy, with a focus in the history of ethics and political thought. Getty’s writing has centered on a number of figures, including David Hume, John Gay, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Damaris Masham, Adam Smith, and Sophie de Grouchy. He is the book reviews editor of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy. Getty also teaches and writes on Indigenous philosophy, and is currently working on a co-authored manuscript titled, An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy. He is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
“Sophie de Grouchy on the Problem of Economic Inequality.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 61.1 (2023): 112-132.
“Remorse and Moral Progress in Sophie de Grouchy’s Letters on Sympathy.” In Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, edited by Lisa Shapiro and Karen Detlefsen. New York: Routledge, 2023: 584-596.
“A Minimalist Account of Love,” in Love, Justice, Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Rachel Fedock, Michael Kühler, Raja Rosenhagen, Routledge, 2021, pp. 61-78.
“Adam Smith and the Stoic Principle of Suicide,” European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 28, No. 2 (2020), pp. 350-63.
“Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Democratization of Moral Virtue,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50, No. 1 (2020), pp. 83-97.
“John Gay and the Birth of Utilitarianism,” Utilitas Vol. 30, No. 1 (2018), pp. 86-106.
“Is Hume’s Ideal Moral Judge a Women?,” Hume Studies Vol. 43, No. 2 (2017), pp. 79-102.
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Education
PhD, Boston University, 2019
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Wednesday, 12-2pm
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Associations
Indigenous Philosophy
PHIL 2492
Explores the work of philosophers from a variety of indigenous traditions. Showcases the diverse and rich contributions of these various traditions by engaging with film, poetry, and argumentative prose. Considers topics such as storytelling as philosophical method, locality as an ethical concept, struggles for tribal sovereignty, politics of blood quantum, environmental justice, decolonizing sex and gender, and indigenous futurism. Examines the place of indigenous thought in the modern nation-state and an increasingly global world. Requires prior completion of one philosophy course. Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Interpreting Culture
