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Department of Philosophy

Faculty and Staff

   

George Schedler

Dr. George Schedler, Professor, Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., UCSD, J.D. SIUC
geosched@siu.edu, cv, website
Faner 3065 - Phone: 618-453-7442
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Monday-Thursday; 9:00-10:45 a.m.
and by appointment
Philosophy of Law, social philosophy, Marx, Rawls and ethics.  Author of Introductory Symbolic Logic, Behavior Modification and Punishment of the Innocent; co-editor, Ethical Issues in Contemporary Society; volume 3 of Leys Memorial Lectures; articles on jurisprudence and ethics.

Thomas Alexander

Dr. Thomas Alexander, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Philosophy
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Emory University
talex@siu.edu, cv
Faner 3032 - Phone: 618-453-7440
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Tuesday, Wednesday; 9:30-11 a.m.
Classical American philosophy (esp. Dewey, Santayana, Emerson and Native American Philosophy), classical philosophy (Presocratics to Plotinus, esp. Plato), history of philosophy, aesthetics, metaphysics (esp. naturalistic and ecological ontologies), philosophy of culture.  Author of John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling, co-editor of The Essential Dewey, and articles on a variety of topics in Greek thought, aesthetics and American philosophy. Past President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

Douglas Anderson

Dr. Douglas Anderson, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Philosophy
Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
dra3@siu.edu, cv, website
Faner 3026 - Phone: 618-453-7435
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Tuesday, Thursday; 12:30-2:30 p.m., Wednesday; 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Doug Anderson studies the history of philosophy and American philosophy, and is interested in philosophy's relationship to other dimensions of culture. Therefore, his work covers a range of fields from philosophy of science and religion to philosophy of sport, music, and education. Authors of particular interest to him at present include Thoreau, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa , Plato, and Henry Bugbee . His traditional work in American philosophy focuses on Charles Peirce and the history of pragmatism.

Randall Auxier

Dr. Randall Auxier, Professor, Editor, Library of Living Philosophers, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor, Editor, Library of Living Philosophers
Ph.D., Emory University
drauxier@yahoo.com, cv
Faner 3030 - Phone: 618-453-7437
Office Hours: Spring 2009
Process philosophy, American idealism (esp. personalism), contemporary pragmatism, Whitehead, Bergson, Cassirer, Vico, philosophy of culture. Author of Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce (forthcoming), and numerous articles in the philosophy of culture, history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers; editor of The Pluralist; editor of Critical Responses to Royce, co-editor of God, Process and Persons: The Philosophical Correspondence of Charles Hartshorne and Edgar Sheffield Brightman; co-editor of Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth; co-editor of The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy (forthcoming).

Sara Beardsworth

Dr. Sara Beardsworth, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Warwick
beardswo@siu.edu, cv
Faner 3038 - Phone: 618-453-7453
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Tuesday, Thursday; 11:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, Hegel, critical theory, feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis. Author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity. Editor of Julia Kristeva’s Ethical and Political Thought: Spindel Conference Proceedings. Articles on Kristeva, Freud, Irigaray, Adorno, and Benjamin

Douglas Berger

Dr. Douglas Berger, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Assistant Professor

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ph.D., Temple University
dberger@siu.edu, cv
Faner 3037 - Phone: 618-453-7430
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Tuesday, Thursday; 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Classical and contemporary Brahminical and Indian Buddhist philosophies, classical Chinese philosophy, cross cultural philosophical hermeneutics,19th and 20th century Continental philosophy (espepcially Schopenhauer); author of 'The Veil of Maya:' Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought.

Jed Delahoussaye

Dr. Gerard Delahoussaye, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Ottowa
gldel@siu.edu
Faner 3029 - Phone: 618-453-7445
Office Hours: Spring 2009: M,W,F 10:00-10:30 and 12:00-1:30
John Duns Scotus, medieval ethics and metaphysics, as well as the history of ethical thought, with a special interest in altruism and morality and rationality and morality.

Robert Hahn

Dr. Robert Hahn, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
hahnr@siu.edu, cv
Faner 3034 - Phone 618-453-7438
Office Hours:Spring 2009: Tu ~ 8:00-9:45am & 12:00-1:00pm
Th ~ 8:00-9:45am & 12:00-1:00 p.m. and by appointment

Greek philosophy, Aristotle, Kant, history of philosophy. Author of Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy, Kant's 'Newtonian' Revolution in Philosophy, Conduct and Constraints: Testing the Limits of the 'Harm Principle', Formal Deductive Logic. Articles on Greek philosophy and the history of science. Awarded both the SIU Outstanding Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts, and SIU Outstanding Educator in the University.

Larry A. Hickman

Dr. Larry Hickman, Professor, Director, Center for Dewey Studies, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor, Director, Center for Dewey Studies
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
lhickman@siu.edu, cv, website, Dewey Center website
Dewey Center - Phone: 618-453-2629 - FAX: 618-453-1733
Office Hours: Spring 2009 - by appointment
Philosophy of technology, classical American philosophy, philosophy of education. Monographs include, Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates (1980); John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology (1990); Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture (2001); Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism (2007). Edited volumes include Technology and Human Affairs (1981); Reading Dewey (1998); The Essential Dewey (with Thomas Alexander) (1998); The Correspondence of John Dewey (1999, 2001,2005). Articles on technology, environmental philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, education, film studies, philosophy of religion.

Pat Manfredi

Dr. Pat Manfredi, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Associate Professor, Faculty Advisor, University Studies
Ph.D., Notre Dame University
manfredi@siu.edu ustudies@siu.edu
Faner 3040 - Phone: 618-453-3161
Office Hours:Spring 2009; Tuesday, Wed, Thurs; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Metaphysics, philosophy of mind and psychology, cognitive science, action theory.  Author of articles on analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind and psychology.

Anthony Steinbock

Dr. Anthony Steinbock, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor
Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook
steinboc@siu.edu, cv, website
Faner 3028 - Phone: 618-453-7436
Office Hours: Spring 2009
Contemporary French and German philosophy, phenomenology, social ontology and aesthetics.  Author of Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl, Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience, and articles on political, social and phenomenological philosophy.  Translator of Edmund Husserl's, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: Lectures on Transcendental  Logic. Editor-in-Chief of Continental Philosophy Review, General Editor of Northwestern University Press SPEP Series, and on the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP).

Kenneth Stikkers

Dr. Kenneth Stikkers, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor
Ph.D., DePaul University
kstikker@siu.edu
Faner 3022 - Phone: 618-453-7433
Office Hours: Spring 2009; Monday 3:15-4:30, Tuesday 2:00-4:30; Thursday 2:00-3:30 and by appointment
Philosophy of economics, contemporary continental philosophy (Scheler, Foucault), American philosophy (Puritanism, James), ethics, social/political philosophy. Editor of Max Scheler's, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge. Author of Economics as Moral Philosophy, and articles on philosophy of economics and contemporary continental thought.

Stephen Tyman

Dr. Stephen Tyman, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto
sttyman@siu.edu
Faner 3036 - Phone: 618-453-7452

Office Hours: Spring 2009

Eighteenth and Nineteenth century European philosophy, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, phenomenology and existentialism (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche).  Author of Descrying the Ideal: The Philosophy of John William Miller, and articles on Heidegger and Nietzsche.

Andrew Youpa

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
ayoupa@siu.edu, cv website
Faner 3039 - Phone: 618-453-7439
Office Hours: TBA

Areas of specialization: Spinoza, Early Modern philosophy, Modern Moral philosophy.


Emeriti

   

David S. Clarke

Dr. David S. Clarke, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Emory University
davidsclarke@mchsi.com, website
 

Elizabeth Eames

Professor, Emeritus  
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr  
Eugenie Gatens-Robinson    
Professor, Emeritus    
Ph.D., SIUC    
genrog@mebtel.net    
Garth Gillan    
Professor, Emeritus    
Ph.D., Dusquenne University    
Matthew Kelly    
Professor, Emeritus    
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame    
George Plochmann    
Professor, Emeritus    
Ph.D., University of Chicago    


Staff

   
Sandra Meacham
Sandra
Office System Specialist
sandrae@siu.edu, phildept@siu.edu
Faner 3067 - Phone: 618-453-7429

Main Office Phone: 618-536-6641 ~ FAX - 618-453-7428

Jeletta Brant
Office Administrator
jbrant@siu.edu
Faner 3061 - Phone: 618-453-7432

Main Office Phone: 618-536-6641 ~ FAX - 618-453-7428

Leslie A. Brown
Textual Editor, Library of Living Philosophers
lbrown@siu.edu
Faner 3008 - Phone: 618-453-7431