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PROFESSORS
Edward Hugh
Henderson
Husain Sarkar
Gregory Schufreider
Mary Sirridge
John Whittaker
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Jon Cogburn
Ian Crystal
François
Raffoul
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Jeffrey Roland
Edward Song
INSTRUCTORS
Emil Badici
Chris Blakley
EMERITUS
Charles Bigger, III
John Baker
PROFESSORS
EDWARD HUGH
HENDERSON ehender@lsu.edu
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 husains@lsu.edu
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
gschufr@lsu.edu
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
pisirr@lsu.edu
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.
JOHN
WHITTAKER jwhitt1@lsu.edu
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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ASSOCIATE
PROFESSORS
JON
COGBURN jcogbu1@lsu.edu
DIRECTOR OF
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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
icrysta@lsu.edu
DIRECTOR OF
PHILOSOPHY
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
Ancien élève at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure. Doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, 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), and A Chaque fois
Mien (Galilée, 2003). His research has focused on
continental theories of subjectivity, and is now developing in tracing
the ethical dimensions of such subjectivity, in particular in recent
French philosophy (for instance in "Being and the Other: Ethics and
Ontology in Heidegger and Levinas," in Addressing Levinas,
Northwestern University Press, 2001). He is currently preparing a book
on the "origins of responsibility". He has published several essays and
articles on Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and
Jacques Lacan. He is the co-editor (with David Pettigrew) of Disseminating Lacan
(SUNY Press, 1996), Heidegger
and Practical Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2002), and,
forthcoming, of Rethinking Facticity
(under review, SUNY Press). In addition, he has translated several
books from the French Philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe
Lacoue-Labarthe, Françoise Dastur, Juan-David Nasio, and
presently Martin Heidegger's last seminars, Vier
Seminare, for Indiana University Press.
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ASSISTANT
PROFESSORS
JEFFREY
ROLAND jroland@lsu.edu
B.A. University of Minnesota (1996);
M.A. Cornell University (2000); Ph.D. Cornell University (2005). He
teaches courses in logic, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics,
and metaphysics. His research currently
focuses mainly on issues in the philosophy of mathematics,
epistemology, and the philosophy of science, in particular concerning
the nature and scope of philosophical naturalism and the prospects for
naturalizing mathematics. He has published in The
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and the Australasian
Journal of Philosophy and has an article forthcoming in Philosophy and
Phenomenological
Research.
EDWARD SONG
esong at lsu.edu
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
EMIL
BADICI badici@lsu.edu
B.A., M.A. Bucharest University (1999); M.A. University of Florida
(2002); Ph.D.
University of Florida (2007). He is primarily interested in
philosophical logic, philosophy of language and logic and teaches on a
regular basis symbolic logic in addition to other undergraduate
courses. His current research projects are mainly focused on the Liar
Paradox and the nature of truth, with particular emphasis on the
inexpressibility theory of truth (which he defended in his
dissertation) and its relation to the inconsistency theories of truth.
He also has research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of
mathematics, epistemology and modern philosophy. He has published or has forthcoming
papers in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry (with Kirk Ludwig), and The Logica Yearbook.
CHRIS BLAKLEY
blakley@lsu.edu
B.A., 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 c.bigger@cox.net
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
baker7@lsu.edu
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.
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