Parker Crutchfield

Parker Crutchfield is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Arizona State University, working in applied ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of science. Following graduate school, he was assistant professor of ethics and the inaugural director of research at the Missouri School of Dentistry and Oral Health at A.T. Still University, a school which he helped found. As assistant professor in the program in medical ethics, humanities, and law at WMed, Dr. Crutchfield conducts clinical ethics consultations, teaches medical students and residents, and conducts research in medical ethics.