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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 and the
philosophy of science, 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]
SELECTED
ARTICLES
François Raffoul
"Facticity and Ethics," in Rethinking Facticity,
eds. F. Raffoul and E. Nelson, (forthcoming SUNY Press).
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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
(w/ 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).
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
"Maddy
and Mathematics: Naturalism or Not," The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science
58 (2007), 423-450.
"Kitcher
and the Obsessive
Unifier," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
forthcoming.
"Kitcher, Mathematics, and Naturalism," Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, forthcoming.
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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