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The
LSU Department of Philosophy is a pluralistic department
with particular research foci in: (1) aesthetics
and
the philosophy of art, (2) contemporary
continental
philosophy, (3)
ethics and political philosophy , (4) history
of philosophy, (5) language,
epistemology,
mind, and metaphysics, (6) logic,
philosophy
of science, and philosophy of mathematics, and (7) the
philosophy of religion. Our B.A. and M.A. students
have gone on to distinguish themselves in the arts,
government, and industry, as well as in some of the best
Ph.D programs in the United States.
AESTHETICS
AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART
[Gregory
Schufreider, Mary Sirridge]
SELECTED
ARTICLES
Jon Cogburn
(with
Mark Silcox) "Computability Theory and Literary Competence,"
British Journal of Aesthetics,
forthcoming.
Gregory
Schufreider
"Overpowering the Center: Three Compositions by Mondrian," The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 44, no.
1 (1985); pp. 13-28.
"Art and the Problem of Truth," Man and World, vol.
13, no. 1 (1980); pp. 57-84.
Mary
Sirridge
"Truth From Fiction?" Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, XXXV.4 (June, 1975), 543-571.
"J.R.R. Tolkien and Fairy Tale Truth," British Journal
of Aesthetics, XV (Winter, 1976), 183-196.
"The In's and Out's of Dance: Expression as an aspect of
Style," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
XXXVI/1, (Fall, 1977), pp. 15-24. With Adina Armelagos.
"The Identity Crisis in Dance," The Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XXXVII (Winter, 1978),
pp. 129-139. With Adina Armelagos.
"Artistic Autonomy and Critical Prerogative," The
British Journal of Aesthetics, XVIII (Fall, 1977),
137-154.
"The Moral of the Story: Exemplification and the Literary
Work," Philosophical Studies, 38 (1980), 391-402.
"The Role of "Natural Expressiveness In Explaining Dance," The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XLI/3
(Spring, 983), pp. 301-307. With Adina Armelagos.
"The Good, The Bad and the Counterfeit: A Tolstoyan Theory
of Television Narrative," in The Meaning of the Medium:
Perspectives on the Art of Television, ed. Katherine
Henderson. Praeger Press:1990. pp. 103-127.
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CONTEMPORARY
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
[Chris
Blakely, François Raffoul, Gregory Schufreider]
BOOKS
François Raffoul
A Chaque fois mien (Paris, France: Galilée, Spring
2004)
Heidegger and the Subject, Humanity Books (Amherst,
NY: Prometheus, 1999)
Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (co-editor with
David Pettigrew) (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002)
Disseminating Lacan (co-editor with David Pettigrew)
(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996)
Rethinking Facticity (co-editor with Eric Nelson)
(forthcoming SUNY Press, 2005)
French Interpretations of Heidegger (co-editor with
David Pettigrew) (forthcoming SUNY Press, 2005)
[Doctor Raffoul has as well introduced and provided
canonical English language translations of eight works by
influential European philosophers, including: Martin
Heidegger, Dominique Janicaud, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe,
Jean-luc Nancy, Françoise Dastur and Juan-David Nasio.]
ARTICLES
François Raffoul
"The Possibility of the Im-possible: Heidegger and Derrida
on Responsibility," in Bulletin de la Société Americaine
de Philosophie de Langue Française, Vol. XIV, no. 1,
Spring 2004
"On Hospitality, Between Ethics and Politics: Reading
Derrida's Adieu à Emmanuel Levinas", in Research in
Phenomenology. Fall 1998.
"The Subject of the Welcome," in Symposium (Journal
of the Canadian Society of Hermeneutics, Fall 1998)
"Heidegger and the Origins of Responsibility", in Heidegger
and
Practical Philosophy (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002)
"Being and the Other: Ethics and Ontology in Heidegger and
Levinas." Forthcoming in Addressing Levinas
(Northwestern University Press, 2004)
Gregory
Schufreider
"Heidegger's Hole: The Space of Thinking," Research in
Phenomenology, vol. XXXI (2001); pp. 203-229.
"The Onto-Theo-Logical Nature of Anselm's Metaphysics," Philosophy
Today, vol. 40, no. 4/4 (Winter 1996); pp. 449-463.
"Heidegger's Contribution to a Phenomenology of Culture," The
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol.
17, no. 2 (1986); pp. 166_183.
"Heidegger on Community," Man and World, vol. 14,
no. 1 (1981); pp. 25-54.
"The Metaphysician as Poet-Magician," Metaphilosophy,
vol. 10, nos. 3 & 4 (1979); pp. 265-288.
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ETHICS AND
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
[François
Raffoul, James Rocha]
SELECTED
ARTICLES
François Raffoul
"Facticity and Ethics," in Rethinking Facticity,
eds. F. Raffoul and E. Nelson, (forthcoming SUNY Press).
James
Rocha
"Autonomy within Subservient Careers," forthcoming in Ethical
Theory and Moral Practice.
"Sexual Harassment and Coercive Offers," forthcoming in the
Journal of Applied
Philosophy.
"The Deliberative Responsibility of Autonomous Agents," forthcoming
in Philosophical Writings.
Edward
Song
"Rawls's Liberal Principle
of Legitimacy," forthcoming in Philosophical
Forum.
"Political Naturalism and State Authority," forthcoming in
the Journal of Social
Philosophy.
"Strong
and Weak Legitimacy,"
forthcoming in Southwest
Philosophical Review.
"Giving Credit When Credit is Due: The Ethics of
Authorship," International
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (2011): 1-13.
"Subjectivist Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of
Intervention,"
Journal of Social Philosophy, 41 (2010): 137-151.
James
Rocha and Edward Song
"Preemptive Anonymous Whistleblowing," (with James Rocha) forthcoming
in Public Affairs
Quarterly.
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
[Ian
Crystal, François Raffoul, Husain Sarkar, Mary Sirridge,
Gregory Schufreider]
BOOKS
Ian Crystal
Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in
Ancient Greek Thought (Monograph) Ashgate Press, UK,
(2003)
Husain
Sarkar
Descartes’ Cogito: Saved From the Great Shipwreck,
New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003,
xx+305.
The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on the Present Age,
Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000, x+187.
Gregory
Schufreider
Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings,
Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy,
Purdue University Press, 1994; pp. 408.
An Introduction to Anselm's Argument, Philosophical
Monographs, Temple University Press, 1978; pp. xvii + 113.
SELECTED
ARTICLES
Ian Crystal
‘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.
Husain
Sarkar
"Kierkegaard: Vox Populi, Vox Dei," The Southern Journal
of Philosophy, Volume XXXVII, Number 2 (Summer 1999),
253-279.
François
Raffoul
"Heidegger and Kant: The Question of Idealism," Philosophy
Today (De Paul University, Vol. 40; No 4/4; Winter
1996).
Gregory
Schufreider
"A Classical Misunderstanding of Anselm's Argument," American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 66 (1992); pp.
489-499.
"Reunderstanding Anselm's Argument," The New
Scholasticism, vol. 57, no. 3 (1983); pp.
384­409.
"The Identity of Anselm's Argument," The Modern
Schoolman, vol. 54, no. 4 (1977); pp. 345-361.
Mary
Sirridge
"As It Is, It Is an Ax: Some Medieval Reflections on De Aima
II.1," Medieval Philosophy and Theology 6 (1997),
1-24.
"The Wailing of Orphans and Cooing of Doves: The Influence
of Augustine's Theory of Language on Some Medieval Theories
of the Interjection," Vestigia, Imagines, Verba: Semiotics
and Logic in Medieval Theological Texts (XIIth-XIVth
Century), Bologna: 1997, pp. 99-116.
"Quam videndo intus dicimus: Seeing and Saying in De
Trinitate XV," Medieval Analyses in Language and
Cognition: Acts of the Symposium "The Copenhagen School of
Medieval Philosophy," ed., Sten Ebbesen & Russell
L. Friedman. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and
Letters. Reitzels: Copenhagen 1999. 317-330.
“Augustine’s Two Theories of Language,” Documenti e
Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale XV (2000),
ed. R. Lambertini. 35-57.
“The Pupils of the Master of Abstractions: Abstractiones
Digbianae, Regiae & Venetae,” with Paul Streveler and
Sten Ebbesen, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et
Latin 74 (2003), 89-150.
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METAPHYSICS,
EPISTEMOLOGY,
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
[Jon
Cogburn, Husain Sarkar, Jeffrey Roland, Mary Sirridge]
SELECTED
ARTICLES
Jon Cogburn
(with Mark Silcox) "Computing Machinery and Emergence: The
Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Video Games," Minds and
Machines, 15 (2005).
“Tonking a Theory of Content: An Inferentialist Rejoinder,”
Logic and Logical Philosophy, 13 (2005).
“The Philosophical Basis of What? The Anti-Realist Case For
Dialethism,” in The Law of Non-Contradiction, ed.
Graham Priest, J.C. Beall, and Bradley Armour-Garb, Oxford
University Press, (2004).
“Deconstructing Dummett’s Anti-Realism: A New Argument
Against Church’s Thesis,” The Logica Yearbook
(2002).
Jon
Cogburn and
Jeffrey
Roland
"Anti-Luck Epistemologies and
Necessary Truths," Philosophia (2011) 39: 547-561.
"Strong
Therefore Sensitive: Misgiving's about DeRose's
Contextualism," forthcoming in Grazer Philosophische
Studien.
Jeffrey
Roland
"Nominalism and Causal Theories of Reference," Sats--Nordic
Journal of Philosophy (2010) 10: 51-68.
Husain
Sarkar
"Know Thyself: A Theory of Understanding: Part Two," Cogito,
Volume 13, Number 2 (August 1999), 133-138.
"Know Thyself: A Theory of Understanding: Part One" Cogito,
Volume 12, Number 3 (November 1998), 199-204.
"In Defense of Truth," Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV, Number 1 (March
1983), 67-69.
"Origins and Identities," Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, Volume LX, Number 2 (June 1982),
140-151.
"Putnam's Schemata," The Southwestern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume X, Number 1 (March 1979), 125-137
Gregory
Schufreider
"The Logic of the Absurd," Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, vol. 44, no. 1 (1983);
pp. 61-83.
Mary
Sirridge
"Donkeys, Stars, and Illocutionary Acts," The Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XLV/4 (Summer,
1987), pp. 381-388.
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LOGIC,
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF
MATHEMATICS
[Jon
Cogburn, Jeffrey Roland, Husain Sarkar]
BOOKS
Husain Sarkar
A Theory of Method, Berkeley, California:
University of California Press, 1983, xvii+229.
SELECTED
ARTICLES
Jon Cogburn
“The Logic of Logical Revision: Formalizing Dummett’s
Argument,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
83 (2005).
“Paradox Lost,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 34
(2004).
“Manifest Invalidity: Neil Tennant’s New Argument for
Intuitionism,” Synthese, 134 (2003).
“Logical Revision Re-revisited: The Wright/Salerno
Argument for Intuitionism,” Philosophical Studies,
110 (2002).
(with Roy Cook) “What Negation is Not: Intuitionism and
‘0=1’,” Analysis, 60.1 (2000).
Jeffrey Roland
"Concept Grounding and
Knowledge of Set Theory,"
Philosophia (2010) 38: 179-193
"On Naturalizing the Epistemology of Mathematics," Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2009), 63-97.
"A Euthyphronic Problem for Kitcher's Epistemology of
Science," Southern
Journal of Philosophy 47 (2009), 205-223.
"Kitcher and the Obsessive Unifier," Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 77 (2008), 493-506.
"Kitcher, Mathematics, and Naturalism," Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), 481-497.
"Maddy and Mathematics:
Naturalism or Not," The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 58 (2007), 423-450.
Husain
Sarkar
"Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination," International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 14,
Number 2 (July 2000), 187-197.
"Anti-Realism Against Methodology," Synthese,
Volume 116, Number 3 (1998), 379-402.
"Scientific Realism and the Neutrality of Method," The
Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy,
Volume LXXV, Number 1 (November 1997), 65-78.
"The Task of Group Rationality: The Subjectivist's View,
Part II," Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume 28, Number 3 (September 1997),
497-520.
"The Task of Group Rationality: The Subjectivist's View,
Part I," Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume 28, Number 2 (June 1997), 267-288.
"A Theory of Group Rationality," Studies in History
and Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII, Number 1
(March 1982), 55-72.
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PHILOSOPHY OF
RELIGION
[Edward
Henderson, Gregory Schufreider, John Whittaker]
BOOKS
Edward Henderson
(edited with David Hein) Captured
by
the Crucified: The Practical Theology of Austin
Farrer, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, Ltd.;
2004.
(edited with Brian Hebblethwaite) Divine
Action:
Studies Inspired by the Philosophical Theology of
Austin Farrer, Edinburgh: T & T Clark,
Ltd.; 1990
John
Whittaker
(edited) The Possibilities of Sense: Essays in Honour
of D. Z. Phillips (New York; Palgrave, 2002).
The Logic of Religious Persuasion (New York;
Peter Lang, 1991)
Matters of Faith and Matters of Principle: Religious
Truth Claims and Their Logic (San Antonio; Trinity
University Press, 1981).
SELECTED
ARTICLES
Edward Henderson
“The Supremely Free Agent,” Free-Will and Theology,
edited by F. Michael McLain and W. Mark Richardson
(Lanham, New York, and Oxford: University Press of
America, 1999), 97-120.
“How to be a Christian Philosopher in the Postmodern
World,” Spirituality and Theology (Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox Press; 1998), 63-83
“The Divine Playwright,” The Personalist Forum,
12, No. 1 (Spring, 1996) 35-80.
“Austin Farrer and D.Z. Phillips in Lived Faith, Prayer,
and Divine Reality,” Modern Theology, Vol. 1,
No. 2 (Spring, 1985), 223-243.
“Valuing in knowing God: An Interpretation of Austin
Farrer’s Religious Epistemology,” Modern Theology,
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring, 1985), 223-243.
“Knowing Persons and Knowing God,” The Thomist,
Vol. 46, no. 3 (July, 1982), 394-422.
“A Critique of Theistic Reductionisms,” Philosophy
Research Archives, Vol. VIII, 1982, pp. 429-456.
Gregory
Schufreider
"Kierkegaard on Belief Without Justification," International
Journal
for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 12, no. 3 (1981);
pp. 149-164.
"What is it for God to Exist?," The New
Scholasticism, vol. 55, no. 1 (1981); pp. 77-94.
John
Whittaker
"Can a Purely Grammatical Inquiry be Religiously
Persuasive?" in Philosophy and the Grammar of
Religious Belief, ed. by Timothy Tessin and Mario
Van der Ruhr (London; MacMillan, 1995), pp. 348-66.
"Agape and Self Love," in The Love Commandment,
ed. by Edmund Santurri (Washington; Georgetown
University Press, 1992), pp. 221-38.
"Religious Beliefs, Their Point and Their Reference," in
Is God Real?, ed. by Joseph Runzo in The Library
of Philosophy and Religion (New York: MacMillan, 1992),
pp. 119-29.
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