ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
St. John Hall, Room B20-10
Queens Campus
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-6378
Fax: (718) 990-1907
averyt@stjohns.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Philosophy, City University of New York Graduate Center,
1995
- B.A., Philosophy, Herbert Lehman College, 1975
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Ethics
- Business ethics
- Libertarian political theory
- Traditional syllogistic logic
- Critical rationalism
PROFILE
Thomas Avery has been a member of the Philosophy Department since
1998. Professor Avery has also taught at Lehman
College, Hunter College, New York City College of Technology, and
Long Island University. He is a member of the American
Philosophical Association and the Long Island Philosophical
Society, has been a member of the CUNY Association of Scholars, and
is currently a supporter of the Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education. He recently delivered a paper, “Three Problems of
Stakeholder Theory,” at a conference of the Long Island
Philosophical Society and is currently working on “An
Examination of Milton Friedman’s Stockholder Theory.”