Faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities have expertise in a wealth of diverse areas, including:
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Arabic Philosophy, Stoicism, Plato, Aristotle, Ancient Science - Ian Hensley- Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy - Keith Green, Ian Hensley
- 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Post-Structuralism - Leslie MacAvoy
- Metaphysics, Epistemology - David Harker, Ian Hensley, Ryan Robinson
- Classical and Modern Political Philosophy, Marxism, Globalism and Global Justice, Populism and Nationalism - Michael Allen
- Social and Political Philosophy - Michael Allen, Leslie MacAvoy, Paul Tudico
- Moral Psychology - Allen Coates, Keith Green
- Ethical Theory, Moral Responsibility, Metaethics - Allen Coates
- Ethics - Allen Coates, Keith Green, Leslie MacAvoy
- Applied Ethics - Allen Coates, Paul Tudico
- Philosophy of Religion, Ethics of Religion - Keith Green
- Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology - David Harker
- Symbolic Logic - David Harker, Ryan Robinson
Practical Reason - Allen Coates, Paul Tudico- Philosophy of Language - Ryan Robinson
- Philosophy of Law - Leslie MacAvoy, Paul Tudico
- Public/Population Health Ethics - Michael Allen
- Bioethics - Keith Green, Paul Tudico
- Philosophies of Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience - Michael Allen
- Environmental Philosophy - Keith Green
- Animal Ethics and Animal Resistance - Michael Allen
- Feminist Philosophies - Leslie MacAvoy
- Free Will - David Harker
- Philosophical Issues related to Hate - Keith Green
- Misinformation - David Harker
- Faculty News
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Scott Contreras-Koterbay gave a keynote address at a conference organized by the Art Research Centre. The conference was titled "Artistic and Artificial: Intelligence, Imagination, and Creativity." Scott's paper was on "The Aesthetic and Teleological Voids of Aesthetic Objects Created by Artificial Intelligences, a Lacanian Position."
Michael Allen was interviewed in a recent podast by the Metta Center for Nonviolence regarding his work in Gandhian economics. The audio as well as a transcript can be found here.
- Faculty Publications
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Allen, Michael. Skill or Slaughter in ‘Fair Chase:’ What does Animal Resistance Tell us about Modern Sports Hunting?" (with Erica von Essen), Between the Species, 25: 1 (2022), 149-167.
Allen, Michael. On the Dharma of Critical Animal Studies: Animal Spirituality and Total Liberation” (with Erica von Essen), in A Critical Animal Studies Reader: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation, eds. A. Nocella, K Socha, and R. White (Lexington, 2022).
Allen, Michael. “Cow Releases as Staged Liberations in Agri-Tourism” (with Erica von Essen), in Critical Animal Studies and Activism, eds. A. Nocella and A. George (Peter Lang, 2022).
Allen, Michael. “Gandhi’s Metaphysics as Encountering the ‘Unreasonable:’ Liberal Multiculturalism, Self-Suffering, and the Comedy-Satyagrahi,” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, 26 (2021) 31-54.
Allen, Michael (with Emily Patterson-Kane and Jennifer Edie). Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement. (New York: Routledge, 2021).
Coates, Allen. “Moral Worth and Accidentally Right Actions,” Analysis 81:3 (2021): 389-96.
Green, Keith. “Spinoza on Hatred and Power and the Challenge of Reconciliation,” in Paula Satne and Krissanna Scheiter, eds. Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment, (Springer International Publishing AG, forthcoming 2022).
Green, Keith. “Love, Hatred, and Self-preservation in Descartes’ Passions of the Soul and Spinoza’s theory of the Affects,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, CXII (2020), 2, pp. 425-442.
Harker, David. 'Scientific Progress and Scientific Realism', in New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan. New York and London: Routledge.
Hensley, Ian. “Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.137.” Forthcoming in Classical Philology
Hensley, Ian. “The Physics of Stoic Cosmogony.” Apeiron 54, no. 2 (2021): 161–187.
Hensley, Ian. “The Physics of Pneuma in Early Stoicism,” in The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle, edited by Sean Coughlin, David Leith, and Orly Lewis (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 171–201.
Hensley, Ian. “Stoic Epistemology,” in The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, edited by Kelly Arenson (New York: Routledge, 2020), 137–147.
MacAvoy, Leslie. "Logos, Perception, and the Ontological Function of Discourse in Phenomenology: A Theme from Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle." Language and Phenomenology. Edited by Chad Engelland. Routledge, 2021. 115-131.