Andrew MacDonald

Research Interests/Research Profile

I am currently researching several areas of Philosophy of Law and Metaethics. My interests in Metaethics pertain to the challenges that Expressivism & Particularism have posed to moral realism, specifically relating to their ability to satisfy our intuitions regarding moral conflict. My research into the philosophy of law is related to the ontological difficulties in justifying human rights. The underlying issue behind these problems is discerning an essential moral status of humanity in relation to any claim right.

Presentations

• Presentation (Aug, 2009): “Contemporary church planting trends in North American Evangelicalism.”
• Presentation (Mar, 2011): “In Defense of Rights: Rethinking Just War in terms of Human Rights.”
• Presentation (Aug, 2011): “Hierarchies of Discourse: A Critique of Nancey Murphy’s Non-reductive Physicalism.”
• Presentation (Nov, 2011): “Justifying Opportunity: Amartya Sen and a Human Right to Opportunity.”

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Harvest Bible Fellowship, Oakville, Ontario, May 2010 – Aug 2010
Research Assistant, Harvest Bible Fellowship, Elgin, Illinois, May 2009 – Aug 2009

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, California, Winter 2011 – Present
• Teaching Assistant, US History HIST 107, History, Biola University, La Mirada, California, Spring 2010
• Teaching Assistant, American Democracy, Civil War & Reconstruction HIST 308, History, Biola University, La Mirada, California, Spring 2010