I'm Spencer Case, a writer, podcaster, and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Bowling Green State University philosophy department in Bowling Green, Ohio. Welcome to my webpage!  

I completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University Colorado Boulder in 2018. From 2019-2021, I was an international research fellow at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China, where I witnessed the onset of the pandemic and met my lovely wife, May. We are now the proud parents of our adorable son, Elijah (we usually call him "Eli"). His younger brother, Nathan, is on his way.

I'm coauthor, along with Matt Lutz, of Is Morality Real? A Debate, which is published through Routledge. You can order it here. A second book, Why It's Ok to be Patriotic, is now in the works. A third project, an anthology of essays by philosophers with military experience, is also underway. I'm co-editing this with Jesse Hamilton and Mark Zelcer, it's tentatively titled Front Line Philosophy. 
 
I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army and I deployed twice as part of the Global War on Terrorism: to Iraq (2005-2006) and to Afghanistan (2009-10). I like writing, reading (especially about philosophy, history, and politics), podcasting, listening to jazz, and swing dancing. Right now, I'm also getting into playing the harmonica (both diatonic and chromatic). ​My main philosophical research area is the nature of normativity (i.e., "ought-ness"), but I've got interests in other areas, too, including in war ethics and the normativity of epistemology (i.e., why we have reasons to believe some things and not others). Really, all aspects of philosophy interest me. 

The video up top was made by an artist who goes by the name Train of Thoughts, who you can support here, based on an essay of mine at 1,000 Word Philosophy which you can read here. The narration in the video is my own.  The other pictures here are of me, my wife, May, and Eli..