SAHAR JOAKIM RESCH, PH.D.
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Sahar Joakim Resch, Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Journey:

I'm currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis Community College where I've taught since Spring of 2021.

     ..... How did I get here?

In 2010, I declared philosophy as my major at Santa Monica College. For two years, my interest was in social and political philosophy; which, by my lights, includes religious studies. I wanted to understand the effects of our beliefs (including our religious beliefs) on how we act. 

In 2012, I transferred to UCLA and while studying there I attended an APA meeting with the philosophy club in San Diego. In one session, people were trying to figure out what kind of true belief gets called knowledge. I
became addicted to Gettier literature. I took an intro to epistemology course and became sure that knowledge is not a kind of belief at all.

By 2014, I was calling myself a future epistemologist. 
My writing sample for graduate school aimed at showing that Plato is correct that knowledge is not something like a justified true belief. In 2015, I entered the Ph.D. in philosophy program at Saint Louis University. My research interest remained in epistemology but I moved beyond Plato (likely because I can't read Attic Greek!). 

​Under John Greco's supervision, I
defended my dissertation in Spring of 2020. In my dissertation, Knowledge Beyond Belief, I broaden the limits of knowledge beyond traditional conceptions and contemporary alternatives by arguing for knowledge beyond the scope of belief.

I defended my doctoral dissertation virtually in the first few months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. I took work as an adjuct working simultaneously for Jefferson College, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville). One year later, I accepted a full time position as an Assistant Professor.

In 2025, I was promoted to Associate Professor. Everyday I enter the classroom, or log into it, is a gift.

Published:

Joakim's review of Bortolotti's (2020) Epistemic Innocence...
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Joakim's review of Masland's (2020) We Know It When We See It
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Joakim's review of Jeffrey's (2019) God and Morality
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Joakim and Ragland (2018) On Hobbes
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Recent Presentations:
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American Philosophical Association
Central Divisional Meeting (2022)
​“Belief-Irrelevant Knowledge”
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Philosophical Perspectives on COVID-19
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"Lessons from COVID:
Utilitarian in Theory and Egoist in Practice
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American Philosophical Association
Eastern Divisional Meeting (2021)

“A Novel Epistemology in light of Aquinas and Anscombe”
​American Philosophical Association
Central Divisional Meeting (2021)
​“Dharmottara and Gettier’s Cases Against Knowledge”
Session of The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
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