Michael C Labossiere

Tucker Hall Room #203

Monday/Wednesday/Friday •  2:00 pm - 3:20 PM
Online (Zoom) • by appointment

PHI 3500-001 Metaphysics •  Hours TBA
PHI 2010E Introduction to Philosophy •  Hours TBA

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Originally from Maine, Dr. LaBossiere began his career at Florida A&M University in 1993. In addition to being a philosophy professor who teaches Ethics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology, Dr. LaBossiere is one of the first Hewlett Foundation Cyber Policy Institute fellows. This opportunity arose from past research in technological ethics.

While dedicated to teaching, Dr. LaBossiere serves as the facilitator of the Philosophy & Religion Unit, is the chair of the General Education Assessment Committee, is the chair of the General Education Steering Committee and serves as a member of the Institutional Level Assessment Committee. Because of his background in general education, Dr. LaBossiere served and serves on statewide committees revising the General Education curriculum.

While earning his PhD at The Ohio State University, Dr. LaBossiere earned his ramen noodle money writing for various TTRPG (Tabletop Role Playing Game) companies such as TSR (D&D), R. Talsorian Games (Cyberpunk), GDW (Traveller), and Chaosium (Call of Cthulhu and Runequest). Dr. LaBossiere continues to write material for D&D 5E and Call of Cthulhu 7E. He is an accomplished cartographer of fictional and real locations. Dr. LaBossiere earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do through the OSU Tae Kwon Do club and still practices.

While earning his B.A. in philosophy and political science at Marietta, College, Dr. LaBossiere ran track and was All Conference twice in cross country. Dr. LaBossiere was also part of the state champion college debate team. Dr. LaBossiere still runs and competes in trail and road races.

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• Metaphysics
  
• Ethics
  
• Political Philosophy
  
• Epistemology
  
• Fallacies
  
• Running
  
• Martial Arts
  
• Gaming (TTRPG & Video/Computer)
  
• Drawing
  
• DIYWD (Do It Yourself Without Dying)
  
• Biking
  
• Hiking
  
• Rowing
  
• Cartography
  
• Sci-Fi
  
• Fantasy

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• Professor • 2009 - Present 
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
• Associate Professor • 2001 - 2008
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
• Visiting Professor • 1995-1996
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
• Adjunct Professor • 1993-1994
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL

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Recent Presentations

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“Assessment on a Shoestring Budget”, at Florida A&M University Assessment Day, 2023

“Automated Assessment Instruments”, at Florida A&M University Assessment Day, November 12, 2021

“Earning Faculty Buy-In with SAME (Simplify, Automate, Motivate and Educate”, at Indiana University IUPI, October 27, 2021

“Encouraging Faculty Buy-In with S.A.M. at the Assessment in Higher Education: Enhancing Institutional Excellence March 26th, 2021, University of Florida

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Select Publications

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“On Digital Souls & God’s Robots: Immortality Through AAI?”, Divus Thomas 2023 special issue; Artificial Intelligence Meets Theism: Philosophical Reflections, pp. 90-109, 2023

110 Fallacies, 2023
"Digital Tears Fell from Her Virtual Eyes Or The Ethics of Virtual Beings" in Experience Machines (2017), Rowman & Littlefield International, Edited by Mark Silcox

"Testing the Moral Status of Artificial Beings; or “I’m Going to Ask You Some Questions . . .” in Robot Ethics 2.0 (2017), Oxford University Press, edited by Patrick Lin, Ryan Jenkins, and Keith Abney.

What Don’t You Know?, May 2008, Continuum.
“Racial Identity and Oppression”, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Winter/Spring 1997, pp. 31-38.

“Laws and Universals”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume XXXIV, No.1, 1996, pp. 65-82.

"A Reply to Hochberg", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, March 1996, pp. 162-170.

"Cracking the Division Bell: A Philosophic Critique of The Bell Curve", International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Winter/Spring 1996, pp. 25-33.

"Substances and Substrata", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, September 1994, pp. 360-370.

"Body and Environment", Environmental Ethics., Winter 1994, pp. 411-418.

"Swapped Tropes", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, September 1993, pp. 258-264.

“David Lewis,” Great Thinkers A-Z, Continuum, Edited by J. Baggini and J. Stangroom, 2004, pp. 146-148.

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• PHI 1100 Critical Inquiry
  
• PHI 2100 Logic
  
• PHI 2010 Introduction to Philosophy
  
• PHH 2102 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
  
• PHH 3400 Modern Philosophy
  
• PHI 3601 Ethics
  
• PHI 3400 Metaphysics
  
• PHI 3300 Epistemology
  
• PHI 4300 Theory of Knowledge
  
• PHI 4800 Aesthetics