Darin Crawford Gates

Darin Crawford Gates teaches philosophy at Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Heather Spencer Gates, have eight children. He is originally from Ogden, Utah, and his wife is from San Marino, California. After serving a mission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a BA in philosophy at Brigham Young University and then a PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University in Philadelphia. He specializes in moral philosophy/ethics and is currently working on a book that examines the relation between self-interest and moral obligation. He also is currently a visiting fellow with the Wheatley Institution as part of a team trying to rethink how ethics is taught. His publications include “The ‘Fact of Reason’ and the Face of the Other: Kant and Levinas on Autonomy, Constraint, and Rational Agency,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (Winter 2002), and “Ontological Disclosure and Ethical Exposure: Heidegger and Levinas on Meaning, Subjectivity, and Non-Indifference,” Philosophy Today 45, no. 4 (2001).