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Areas of Specialization and Competence:
Specialization: Applied Ethics (Animal, Environmental), Bioethics, Semiotics, Contemporary Continental
Competence: History of Philosophy (Early Modern and Modern), Social and Political Philosophy, Existentialism, Eastern

Selected Teaching Experience:
• Introduction to Philosophy (Philosophy 111) – Instructor – Spring 2011 Supervisor: Chris Yeomans, Purdue University
• Religions of the East (PHIL 330) – Teaching Assistant – Spring 2009-Spring 2010 Professor: Don Mitchell, Purdue University
• Biomedical Ethics (PHIL 270) – Teaching Assistant – Spring 2009 Professor: Martin Curd, Purdue University
• Animal Ethics (PHIL 280) – Teaching Assistant – Fall 2008 Professor: Mark Bernstein, Purdue University
• Preparing Future Faculty I (GRAD 590B)– Teaching Assistant – Spring 2007-Fall 2007 Supervisor: Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University
• Guest Lecturer at the Graduate level – Bioengineering Ethics (BME595R) on Cloning of Animals for Biomedical Devices – Summer 2008 Instructors: Dr. Mike Hales and Dr. Andrew Brightman

Selected Conference Presentations:
• Invited Attendance as Ambassador Quest for Research Excellence 2011 (Washington, D.C. March, 2012)
• Violence, Terrorism , and the Symbolic Response. Revisioning Terrorism (Purdue University, September 2011)
• Toward a Biosemiotic Approach to Environmental Ethics. 11th Gathering in Biosemiotics (the Dactyl Foundation & the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, New York, New York, June 2011)
• Zoosemiotics and Animal Representation (Tartu, Estonia 2010) - A Zoosemiotic Approach to Animal Ethics
• Radical Philosophers’ Association Conference (Eugene 2010) - Symbolic Violence as Subtle Virulence: The Terrorism of Jean Baudrillard
• Semiotic Society of America (Cincinnati 2009) - On the Scope of Valuation in Peirce’s Teleology
• Semiotic Society of America (Houston 2008) - Toward a Semiotic Analysis of Nanoethics
• Semiotic Society of America (New Orleans 2007) - Baudrillard, Simulated Ecology, and Rrcovering Remainders of the Real: The As is Through the As if

Publications:
• Beever, Jonathan. "Symbolic Violence as Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy of Terrorism." Proceedings: Revisioning Terrorism. Purdue University Press ePub. <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/revisioning/2011/910/18> 2011.
• Beever, Jonathan"Meaning Matters: The Biosemiotic Basis of Bioethics." Biosemiotics. [forthcoming]. 2012.
• Snyder, Peter, Nicolae Morar and Jonathan Beever. “Conflict of Interest Policy: Lifespan’s Revised Model”. Lifespan. [published internally].
• Springer, John A., Jonathan Beever, Nicolae Morar, Jon E. Sprague, and Michael D. Kane. “Ethics, Privacy, and the Future of Genetic Information in Healthcare Information Security”. Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. IGI Global. [forthcoming 2010].
•Toward a Semiotic Analysis of Nanoethics. 2008 Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America
•Toward a Semiotic Analysis of Nanoethics. 2008 Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America
• Baudrillard, Simulated Ecology, and Rrcovering Remainders of the Real: The As is Through the As if. 2007 Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America.