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PROFESSORS
Edward
Hugh Henderson
Husain
Sarkar
Gregory
Schufreider
Mary
Sirridge
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Jon
Cogburn
Ian
Crystal
François
Raffoul
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Jeffrey
Roland
Edward
Song
Oliver James Rocha
INSTRUCTORS
Chris
Blakley
EMERITUS
Charles
Bigger, III
John
Baker
John
Whittaker
PROFESSORS
EDWARD HUGH
HENDERSON (email, CV)
B.A. Rhodes College (1961) and Ph.D. Tulane (1967). Philosophy of
religion, philosophical theology, Christian philosophy. Selected
publications: "How to Be a Christian Philosopher in a Postmodern
World," 1998; "Incarnation and Double Agency," 2005; Co-editor (with
Brian Hebblethwaite) of
Divine Action; Co-editor (with
David Hein) of
Captured by the Crucified
(2004); "The God Who Undertakes Us," 2004; "Double Agency and the
Relation of Persons to God," 2004.
HUSAIN
SARKAR (email, CV)
M.A. Bombay University (1970); Ph.D. University of Minnesota (1976).
Interested in history of philosophy, metaphysics, and history and
philosophy of science. Books include A Theory of Method
and
The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on the Present Age,
and Descartes'
Cogito: Saved From the Great Shipwreck.
GREGORY SCHUFREIDER
(email, CV)
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE
STUDIES
B.A. Northwestern University (1969); M.A., Ph.D. University of
California, Santa Barbara (1975). He teaches primarily in areas of the
history of philosophy, recent continental philosophy and the philosophy
of art. He also teaches courses in the philosophy of film. His research
has centered especially on Heidegger and he is at work on a book-length
study of his thought. His publications include An
Introduction to Anselm's
Argument, Temple University Press, 1978; "The
Metaphysician as Poet-Magician," Metaphilosophy,
1979; "Art and the Problem of Truth," Man and World,
1981; "Heidegger on Community," Man and World,
1981; "The Logic of the Absurd," Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, 1983; "Overpowering the Center:
Three Compositions by Modrian," JAAC, 1985;
"Heidegger's Contribution to a Phenomenology of Culture," 1986; and
most recently, Confessions
of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings,
Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy, 1994.
MARY SIRRIDGE
(email, CV)
CHAIR AND DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE
STUDIES
B.A. St.
Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana (1967); M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State
University (1972). She teaches primarily in ancient & medieval
philosophy and in philosophy of art. She also teaches courses in
philosophy and literature. Her principal area of research is philosophy
of language in ancient and medieval thought. She has published an
edition of Sermocinalis Scientia attributed to
Jordan of Saxony, and is involved in the editing of logical and
grammatical works from the 13th century. She is currently working on
Augustine's philosophy of language, and the medieval reception of
Aristotle's On the Soul. Publications include
"Donkeys, Stars and Illocutionary Acts," Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism; "The Moral of the Story:
Exemplification and the Literary Work" The British Journal of
Aesthetics; "Augustine's Two? Theories of Language," "Quod
Videndo intus Dicimus: Seeing and Saying in De Trinitate XV," and "Can
‘Est' Be Used Impersonally?" Sophisms in Medieval
Logic and Grammar.
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ASSOCIATE
PROFESSORS
JON
COGBURN
(email, CV)
B.A.
University of Texas (1993); Ph.D. The Ohio State University (1999).
Teaches primarily in the areas of philosophy of mind, language, and
logic. Research interests include: realism/anti-realism debates,
modality, the computational theory of mind, semantics for vagueness,
dialethism, tacit knowledge, and issues at the intersection of the
sociology of science and cognitive science. Has published or
forthcoming articles in Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Behavior and Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Minds and
Machines, Mathematical Reviews, Philosophia, Philosophical Studies, Ratio, Synthese, and a chapter in The
Law of
Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays
(Oxford University Press, ed. Priest, Beall, and Amour-Garb, 2005).
Currently co-writing with Mark Silcox a book about the metaphysics and
aesthetics of video games, tentatively titled Playing the World:
Computational Emergence in Art and Mind. Previous Mind Editor of
The
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
IAN CRYSTAL
(email, CV)
B.A.
Dalhousie University (1989); M.A. Queen's University (1990); Ph.D.
King's College, London (1996). His primary interest is in ancient
philosophy, particularly, Plato, Aristotle, and the later Greek
tradition (200- 600 A.D.). His publications include "The Scope of
Thought in Parmenides," Classical Quarterly,
Summer, 2002; "Plotinus on the Structure of Self-Intellection," Phronesis,
Fall, 1998; "Parmenidean Allusions in Republic V," Ancient
Philosophy, Spring, 1997. His book is titled Self-Intellection and
Its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
(Ashgate, 2002).
FRANÇOIS RAFFOUL
(fraffoul@yahoo.com, CV)
Ancien
élève at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Jacques Derrida, advisor), Paris,
France (1995). Professor Raffoul specializes in contemporary
continental philosophy, on which he has published and lectured
extensively. He is the author of Heidegger and the
Subject
(Prometheus Books, 1999), A Chaque fois Mien (Galilée,
2003) and The Origins of Responsibility (forthcoming, Indiana
University Press). His
research has focused on continental theories of subjectivity, and in
particular its ethical dimensions, focusing on the question of
responsibility in contemporary continental thought. His
reflection on ethics has paid special attention to the phenomenological
concept of facticity. He has published numerous essays and
articles on Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and
Jacques Lacan, among others. He is the co-editor (with David Pettigrew) of Disseminating Lacan
(SUNY Press, 1996), Heidegger
and Practical Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2002), and, more recently, Rethinking Facticity
(SUNY Press, 2008). In addition, he is the translator of several
books from the French Philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe
Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique Janicaud, Françoise Dastur, and
Juan-David Nasio, as well as Martin Heidegger's last seminars, Vier
Seminare (Four Seminars,
Indiana University Press). Professor Raffoul is the editor of a
book series at SUNY press on "Contemporary French Thought".
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ASSISTANT
PROFESSORS
OLIVER JAMES
ROCHA (email, CV)
B.A. UCLA (1998); M.A. UCLA (2000); Ph.D. UCLA (2007). He primarily
teaches ethics
and political philosophy, but he also teaches philosophy of race,
literature,
history, and applied ethics (including Medical and Environmental
Ethics). His
current research focuses on the concepts of autonomy, coercion, and
bigotry.
JEFFREY
ROLAND (email, CV)
B.A. University of Minnesota (1996); M.A. Cornell
University (2000); Ph.D. Cornell University (2005). He teaches courses
primarily in logic and epistemology. His research currently focuses
mainly on issues in the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and
the philosophy of science, particularly concerning the nature and scope
of philosophical naturalism and the prospects for naturalizing
mathematics. He has published articles in Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, The British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science, the Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. He has articles forthcoming in Philosophia and the Southern Journal of Philosophy.
EDWARD SONG
(email, CV)
B.A. Yale
University (1994); B.A. Oxford University (1998); Ph.D. University of
Virginia (2005). Teaches primarily in the areas of ethics,
political philosophy, and applied ethics. He is currently
pursuing research on questions about international justice and on
issues in moral psychology.
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INSTRUCTORS
CHRIS
BLAKLEY (email, CV)
BA, Baylor
University (1996); M.A. Baylor University (1998); ABD
Southern Illinois University (Ph.D. expected Spring 2005). 19th and
20th century European philosophy (esp. phenomenology,
post-structuralism), social and political philosophy, ethics. He is
especially interested in the resources of recent Continental philosophy
for addressing the emergence of totalitarian/fascist forms of life,
nihilism, and the "crisis of morality in modernity." age. Dissertation
Topic: Michel Foucault's ethics. Forthcoming publications: "Ethics in
Foucault and Deleuze/Guattari" in Southwest Philosophical
Review, Proceedings of the 2004 Southwest Philosophical
Society Conference.
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EMERITUS
CHARLES
BIGGER, III (email, CV)
Professor
Emeritus. Ph.D. University of Virginia. Recently retired from
the Philosophy Department. Louisiana State University. Has
published:
Participation: a Platonic Inquiry
(LSU Press, 1968),
Kant's Methodology (Ohio
University Press, 1996),
Between Chora
and the Good (Fordham
University Press, 2005).
JOHN BAKER (email, CV)
Associate
Professor. B.A. Hardin-Simmons University (1961); B.D. Ph.D.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1969); M.A., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University (1973). His teaching responsibilities were
primarily in the areas of logic and philosophy of religion. He has
published in the areas of analytic metaphysics, theistic proofs, and
Whiteheadian studies.
JOHN
WHITTAKER (email, CV)
Ph.D.
Yale University (1974). He teaches the courses: Faith and Doubt (REL
2001), Psychological Theories of Religion (REL 3201), Contemplative
Spirituality (REL 3010), History of Modern Christian Thought (REL
4012), and Kierkegaard (REL 4228). His research has been in the field
of the philosophy of religion, as reflected in his books, Matters of Faith and Matters of
Principle (Trinity University Press, 1981) and
The Logic of Religious Persuasion
(Peter Lang, 1991). His most recent publications are The Possibililites of
Sense: Essays in Honour of D. Z. Phillips (edited
by John H. Whittaker; Palgrave, 2002) and two articles on the concept
of religious authority.
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