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Office Hours for Spring 2025:
Thursdays 12:30-1:30pm, 3:30-4:30pm on Zoom, or by appointment
Expertise Areas: Ancient Philosophy, Hermeneutics, 19th-20th century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Courses Taught
Couse Descriptions Can Be Found Here
PHIL 3002: Ancient Greek Philosophy
PHIL 4600: Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 4800: Plato
PHIL 4810: Aristotle
Education & Degrees
2000 Ph.D. in Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University
1995 M.A. in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
1992 B.A., cum laude, in Philosophy, Brigham Young University
Selected Publications:
"Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts", Northwestern University Press, 2018. **Note: if you are unable to read this book online via the Auraria Library, please come to the Philosophy Department. We may be able to help you.**
"Religion and the 'Religious': Cormac McCarthy and John Dewey", in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy vol. 31, 2017
"The Elemental Sallis: On Wonder and Philosophy's 'Beginning'", in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy vol. 27, 2013
"Rethinking 'Bodenständigkeit' in the Technological Age", in Research in Phenomenology vol. 42, 2012
"Martin Heidegger: Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy", Co-translated with Mark Tanzer. Indiana University Press, 2009 **Note: if you are unable to find this book in the Auraria Library, please come to the Philosophy Department. We may have a copy available.**
Organizations
Ancient Philosophy Society - A forum that honors "the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, Tübingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, queer, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works."