Walter (Trip) Glazer

• Ph.D., Georgetown University
• M.A., Georgia State University
• B.A., American University

Trip Glazer joined the University of Dayton Department of Philosophy in 2019. He previously taught at the University of Arkansas, Georgetown University and Georgia State University. His research centers on emotion and the role that body language plays in communication, especially in contexts of moral damage and moral repair. His approach to these topics is broadly pluralistic, drawing on insights from the history of philosophy, speech act theory, feminist philosophy, critical race theory and the sciences.

• Philosophy of Mind
• Emotion
• Emotional Expression
• Emotion Regulation
• Race

Book

Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

Other publications

"Mindshaping and Emotion" (2025) – A book chapter published in The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping.

"Expressing 2.0" (2024) – An exploration of bodily and emotional communication published in Analytic Philosophy.

"Trains of Thought Long Associated with Action: Charles Darwin's Theory of Emotion" (2024) – A historical defense of Darwin's systemic theory of internal emotions featured in History of Philosophy Quarterly.

"Antiracist Emotion Regulation: Redressing the Motivation Problem" (2023) – Co-authored with Nabina Liebow in Philosophical Topics, addressing the mechanics of emotion management in racial justice work.

"Emotionshaping: A Situated Perspective on Emotionreading" (2022) – A paper examining embedded cognition and facial cues in Biology and Philosophy.

"Emotion Regulation and Cooperation," Philosophical Psychology, 34:8 (2021): 1125-1145.

"Confronting White Ignorance: White Psychology and Rational Self-Regulation" (with Nabina Liebow), Journal of Social Philosophy 52:1 (2021): 50-71.

"Daniel Shalom: A Judeo-Christian Response to Greed," KT Cheung, Journal of Religion and Business Ethics 6 (1), 3.

"Accountability in smart contracts and agentic AI: How to address the responsibility gap and retain meaningful human control?" KT Cheung, S Ramamoorti, AI and Ethics 6 (6), 585.

"To Express or Not to Express?  Ambivalence about Emotional Expression," in D. Gatzia & B. Brogaard (Eds.), The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence: Being of Two Minds (pp. 175-196). Routledge, 2020.

“The Social Amplification View of Facial Expression,” Biology and Philosophy 34:2 (2019): 33.

"White Tears: Emotion Regulation and White Fragility" (with Nabina Liebow), Inquiry (2019), DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1610048.

"Epistemic Violence and Emotional Misperception," Hypatia 34:1 (2019): 59-75.

"Are Beliefs Signals?" Philosophical Psychology 31:7 (2018): 1114-1119.

"The Part-Whole Perception of Emotion," Consciousness and Cognition 58 (2018): 34-43.

"Looking Angry and Sounding Sad: The Perceptual Analysis of Emotional Expression," Synthese 149:9 (2017): 3619-3643.

"Nietzsche on Mirth and Morality," History of Philosophy Quarterly 34:1 (2017): 79-97.

"On the Virtual Expression of Emotion in Writing," British Journal of Aesthetics 57:2 (2017): 177-194.

"The Semiotics of Emotional Expression," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53:2 (2017): 189-215.

“Emotional Processing in Individual and Social Recalibration” (with Bryce Huebner), in J. Kiverstein (ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Social Mind (pp. 280-297). Routledge, 2016.