Philosophy

Teaching

Spring 2018 Courses:

PHIL 201: Philosophy of Religion
MWF 9:10am - 10:10am 

Issues in classical and contemporary philosophical examinations of religion such as arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, religious faith, the problem of evil.

 Prerequisites: None.

 

PHIL 207: Indian Philosophy
MWF 10:20am - 11:20am 

Survey of India’s classical philosophies as well as introductions to the Vedas, the Upanishads, Carvaka, Jainism, Buddhism, and recent Indian
philosophers.

 Prerequisites: None. 

 

PHIL 303: 19th Century Philosophy
MWF 1:50pm - 2:50pm

German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, as well as the reactions of philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche.

Prerequisites: Any 100- or 200-level philosophy course.

Restrictions: Sophomore standing required.

 

Research

I have research interests in 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Indian Philosophy. I have published articles such journals as in 1650-1850, American Phil osophical Quarterly, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Clio,Continental Philosophy Review, Educational Theory, Idealistic Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Janus Head, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophia, Philosophical Forum, Philosophical Frontiers, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Praxis International, The Pluralist, and Rhetorica.

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 1991 Purdue University, B.A. 1977 Eastern Mennonite University