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PROFESSORS
Edward
Hugh
Henderson
François
Raffoul
Husain
Sarkar
Gregory
Schufreider
Mary
Sirridge
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Jon
Cogburn
Ian
Crystal
Jeffrey
Roland
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Edward
Song
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.
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".
HUSAIN
SARKAR (email)
M.A. Bombay University (1970); Ph.D. University of
Minnesota (1976). Interested in moral philosophy,
history of philosophy, metaphysics, and history and
philosophy of science. Books include A
Theory of Method,
The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on the
Present Age, Descartes'
Cogito:
Saved From the Great Shipwreck, and Group
Rationality in Scientific Research.
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)
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)
SECTION
HEAD FOR PHILOSOPHY
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).
JEFFREY
ROLAND (email,
CV)
DIRECTOR
OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
B.A. University of
Minnesota (1996); M.A. Cornell
University (2000); Ph.D. Cornell
University (2005). He teaches
courses primarily in logic and
epistemology and occasionally in
metaphysics and philosophy of
mathematics. He is the recipient of
the 2010 Robert Udick Distinguished
Undergraduate Teaching Award, which
is given to one non-tenured faculty
member in LSU's College of
Humanities and Social Sciences each
year for excellence in undergraduate
teaching. His research
currently focuses 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. His
publications include articles in Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research,
The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, the Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, the
Southern
Journal of Philosophy, and
Philosophia.
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ASSISTANT
PROFESSORS
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. He has papers
forthcoming in Ethical
Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophical
Writings, and the Journal
of Applied 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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