Eric Roark, PhD

Associate Professor of Practice

Contact

ericroark@creighton.edu
Heider College of Business
Marketing & Management - Business

Eric Roark, PhD

Associate Professor of Practice

Eric Roark, PhD is an Associate Professor of Practice of Marketing and Management in the Heider College of Business at Creighton.  In 2008 Eric recieved his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.  His research has been published in Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), Political Studies, The Journal of Value Inquiry, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Journal of Libertarian Studies. 

Research Focus

Ethics (emphasis Business Ethics), Economic Thought, Political Philosophy

Department

Marketing and Management

Position

Associate Professor of Practice

Books

  • Lexington Books: A Division of Rowman and Littlefield
    Eric Roark, Removing the Commons: A Lockean Left-Libertarian Approach to the Just Use and Appropriation of Natural Resources 2013

Articles

  • Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics
    Eric Roark, Priority Setting and Allocation of Medicine and Health Care Services, p. 130-139 2022
  • Political Studies
    Eric Roark, Applying Locke's Proviso to Unappropriated Natural Resources
    60, p. 687-702 2012
  • Journal of Libertarian Studies
    Eric Roark, Nozick's Failed Defense of the Just State
    21, p. 5-39 2007
  • Review Journal of Political Philosophy
    Eric Roark, Moral Duties and International Justice
    4, p. 113-132 2006
  • Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Eric Roark, Tocqueville's Fix: Solving the Riddle of Democracy with Enlightened Self-Interest
    10, p. 19-38 2004

Presentations

  • Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics 2023
  • Annual Meeting of the MidSouth Philosophical Society 2017
  • Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum 2017
  • Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Philosophical Association 2013
  • Annual Meeting of the Value Inquiry Conference 2010

Awards

  • Jean Hampton Prize for the paper 'Is Michael Otsuka's Conception of Robust Self-Ownership Too Robust for a Left-Libertarian'
    American Philosophical Association