Valuing People’s Time

Have you ever worked on a project, investing your time, effort, and energy only to find out your boss (or organization) didn’t really care about what you worked on… or maybe they never even looked at it?

Today on Conflict Managed, Dr. Kevin Timpe discusses the importance of valuing workers through respecting their time. Kevin talks about the value of clarifying work expectations, the role of strong emotions in the workplace, and his ADA advocacy work.

Kevin Timpe is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Calvin University. He holds the endowed William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy. His academic interests include free will, virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of disability, and metaphysics.

Some of Kevin’s recent books and articles include:

• "Denying a Unified Concept of Disability," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy(forthcoming in 2022). 
• "Agency and Disability," in The Routledge Handbook of Agency, edited by Luca Ferrero (Routledge, 2022):159-168.
• "What are Intended as Systems of Support become Systems of Struggle," Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture(2021).
• The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction, with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited with Meghan Griffith & Neil Levy. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, edited with Daniel Speak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Virtues and Their Vices, edited with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Free Will in Philosophical Theology, Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
• Free Will and Its Alternatives, 2nd and expanded edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
• Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump. New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Arguing about Religion. New York: Routledge, 2009.
• “DefiantAfterlife—Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God,” in Voices from the Edge: Centering Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology, ed. Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2020): 206–231.
• "The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals, edited with Blake Hereth". New York: Routledge, 2019.
• “‘Upright , Whole, and Free’—Eschatological Union with God,” TheoLogica2.2 (2018),1-16.

Kevin also runs a disability advocacy group, 22 Advocacy, that focuses primarily on helping families of disabled students get the supports they’re supposed to under federal education law.

You can find Kevin online at:

https://kevintimpe.com/blog/

https://www.facebook.com/22Advocacy

https://twitter.com/22Advocacy

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