Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Directory
Research Areas: Religion and Post-Enlightenment Modernity and Cultural and Religious Theory.
Current
Research Projects: Book on Religion and Psychoanalytic Theory; Research on Religion and Politics.
Publications:
Editor, Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology, University of Virginia Press, 2006.“Radical Theology and the Event: Deleuze avec St. Paul,” in Paul and the Philosophers, edited by
Ward Blanton, Creston Davis, and Hent de Vries, Duke University Press, forthcoming.
“Postmodernism and the Crisis of Belief: Neo-Realism vs. the Real,” in The Mourning After:
Attending the Wake of Postmodernism, edited by Neil Brooks and Joshua Toth, Rodopi, forthcoming.
“Technology and the Time-Image: Deleuze and Postmodern Subjectivity,” South
African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 3, 2005.
A Theology of the Sublime. Routledge. 2001.
Research Areas: Comparative Social Ethics, Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Philosophy of Religions, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion.
Current Research Projects: Writing an article on the ethics of teaching undergraduates to meditate in courses on Asian philosophy and religion, another on using technological resources to teach about Chinese philosophy and religion, and another on the ability of the Buddhist doctrine of karma to function in scientific discourse. Also pursuing research on religious diversity in Central Arkansas with Phillip Spivey and Julia Winden Fey.
Publications:
"Mistaking the Boat for the Shore: An Analysis of Engaged Buddhist Social Ethics," in Action Dharma: Studies in Engaged Buddhism, ed. Christopher S. Queen (Surrey, England: Curzon Press, 2003).
Research Area: 20th Century European Philosophy; Philosophy and self-narrative.
Current Research Projects: Existence: Philosophy through Personal Narrative and “What’s so Good about Good Taste?”
Publications:
"Reflectivity and Reflexivity: A Phenomenological Supplement to Postmodern Sociology," forthcoming in Philosophy in the Contemporary World (2006).
"Generalized Eros: A Problem of Limited Resources," The Pluralist, (forthcoming, 2006).
“Epoche, entertainment and ethics: On the hyperreality of everyday life,” Ethics and Information Technology (2004): 6: 261-269.
"Phenomenology, Film and Religious Belief: Babette’s Feast as an Exemplary Instance," Gimpse: Journal of Phenomenology and Media, Vol. 6 (2004).
"Intersubjectivity, Intimacy and Selfhood: Being-Within-And-Alongside-Others," Existentia: An International Journal of Philosophy, V. XI, No. 3-4 (2001)
Research Areas: Social and Political Philosophy, Marx and Marxism, 19th Century German Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law.
Current Research Projects: Currently working on an essay on gay marriage as well as one on business ethics. Also working on an essay on Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser on recognition. Also has a manuscript under consideration by Routledge.
Publications:
James Bond and Philosophy: Questions are Forever, edited by James B. South and Jacob M. Held, Open Court Press (2006).
“Expressing the Inexpressible: Lyotard and the Differend,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 76-89.
“Assisted Suicide and Problems of Natural Law in Light of Political Liberalism and Pluralism,” Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society, New Series: Vol. 3, Nos. 1-2 (Winter 2002), pp. 91-104.
“‘All You Need is Love,’ Hegel, Love, and Community” in The Beatles and Philosophy, edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur, Open Court Press (2006).
“‘Don’t You Men Know Any Other Way?’ Punishment Beyond Retributivism and Deterrence,” in James Bond and Philosophy: Questions are Forever, edited by James B. South and Jacob M. Held, Open Court Press (forthcoming: September 2006).
Research Areas: The Ethics of Neuroscience and Enhancement Technologies, Social Justice and Feminist Theory, Critical Race Studies Studies.
Current Research Projects: Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights.
Publications:
"The Rhetoric of Color-Blindness," "Harnessing the Future by Studying the Past", National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series 2004.
"Social Justice and the Ethics of Recognition," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol.19, Number 1, (January 2003), 107-114.
"Ethics and the Unconscious," Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, (January 2003), ISSN #1541-5899.
"Beyond Cultural Survival: Transforming Subjectivity," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol.9, Number 2, (Fall-Winter 2002), 13-18.
Research Areas: Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Culture, Kierkegaard, William James.
Current Research Projects: Beginning work on a edited book project on Spiritual Identity: Existential Resources. This work will excerpt and comment on significant authors in the Western tradition who have sought existential orientation outside of (or on the fringes of) traditional religious worldviews, e. g. Montaigne, Emerson, William James, Camus, etc. Currently working an essay on Kierkegaard and William James.
Publications:
Thinking Through Kierkegaard: Existential Identity in a Pluralistic World, (University of Illinois Press, 2005)
"Edifying Hermeneutics: Kierkegaard's Existential 'Method' and Its Limits," in Kierkegaard and the Word(s): Essays in Hermeneutics and Communication, edited by Poul Houe and Gordon Marino, (C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003)
"Matters of Meaning: Autonomy, Authenticity and Authority in Kierkegaard," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 4/1&2 (Spring and Summer, 1997)
"William James's Ethics and the New Casuistry," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2/1: (Summer/Fall 1996)
"Religion, Philosophy and Public Life," Theology and Public Policy, 7/2: (Winter 1995)