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Resumé
AOS
AWARDS DISSERTATION
PUBLICATIONS PAPERS
TEACHING CONTACT
EDUCATION
2002 Stony Brook University
(concentration in the history of philosophy)
PhD awarded May
(dissertation defended Dec. 13, 2001)
AREA
of SPECIALIZATION
Kant and 18th-Century German philosophy
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
AREAS of
COMPETENCE
History of philosophy (ancient and modern)
Ethics and moral theory
Social and political philosophy
SCHOLARSHIPS
and GRANTS
2007
Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)
summer OOE Research and Creativity Grant
grant for research in Germany on 18th-century German
aesthetics
2000-01 Philipps-Universität
Marburg, Marburg Germany
grant for one-year research (exchange) program in
philosophy
Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum
1999-00 Philipps-Universität
Marburg, Marburg Germany
grant for one-year research (exchange) program in
philosophy
Max Kade Fellow through the Max Kade Foundation
1996-97 Eberhard-Karls-Universität
Tübingen, Tübingen Germany,
grant for one-year research (exchange) program in
philosophy
1995-99 Stony Brook University
full tuition scholarship
DOCTORAL
DISSERTATION
Abstract
Possibilities
for a Non-Ocular Aesthetics in Kant's Critique
of Judgment
This thesis focuses on the role of the
senses in Kant's mature theory of the beautiful and the sublime.
My claim is that, though Kant's exposition privileges sight and
rules out touch as avenues for encountering the beautiful (and to
a lesser degree, the sublime), the principles which ground his
theory do not allow him favor and proscribe particular senses to
the degree that he does — in particular, he cannot exclude
touch. The thesis uses Diderot's figure of the blind subject (from
his "Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can
See") as a heuristic device, recuperating the blind subject's
ability to share in the beautiful and the sublime of Kant's
theory. The thesis does not however proceed by means of blurring
Kantian distinctions, but rather aims at making Kant's theory more
consistent with itself. This re-reading of Kant opens up a new way
of understanding Kant's aesthetic theory, revealing previously
unconsidered possibilities for encountering the beautiful and the
sublime in a Kantian vein. My thesis then fleshes out new
instances of the Kantian beautiful and sublime, closing on a use
of Kant's theory of artistic production to make a final argument
for the possibility of a beauty apprehended through touch.
Committee
Edward S. Casey,
philosophy (director); David Allison, philosophy; Jeffrey Edwards,
philosophy; Reinhard Brandt, philosophy (German advisor); Daniel
Monk, art history (outside reader)
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
and BOOK CHAPTERS
2009 "Coda"
(afterword, provisional title)
in Monica Kjellman-Chapin, ed., Kitsch:
History, Theory, Practice (under contract)
2008 "Crowther and the Kantian
Sublime in Art"
in Recht
und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants: Akten des X. Internationalen
Kant-Kongresses
[Right and Peace in Kant's Philosophy: Proceedings of
the 10th International Kant Congress]
5 vols., ed. Valerio Rohden, Ricardo R. Terra, and
Guido A. de Almeida
(Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter), Vol.
3, pp. 565-576
2007 "The
Flower and the Breaking Wheel: Burkean Beauty and Political
Kitsch"
in The International Journal
of the Arts in Society Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.
153-164
2001 "The Senses of the
Sublime: Possibilities for a Non-Ocular Sublime in Kant's Critique
of Judgment"
in Kant
und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des IX. Internationalen
Kant-Kongresses
[Kant and the Berlin Enlightenment: Proceedings of
the 9th International Kant Congress]
5 vols., ed. Volker Gerhardt, Rolf Horstmann, and
Ralph Schumacher
(Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter), Vol. 3, pp.
512-519
1998 "Kitsch Against Modernity" Art
Criticism Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 53-80
1994 "Austria" (literary essay on Ludwig
Wittgenstein and artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler)
Exquisite Corpse (ed.
Andrei Codrescu) No. 45, pp. 20-21
REVIEWS and
BOOK NOTICES
2009 Gail
M. Presbey, ed. Philosophical
Perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism'.
Value Inquiry Book
Series, Volume 188 (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007)
online review (with Prof. Charles Brown) for H-Peace
(forthcoming)
2004 Edward
S. Casey, Representing Place: Landscape
Painting and Maps
(Minneapolis / London: University of Minnesota Press,
2002)
book notice in The Review of
Metaphysics Vol. LVII, No. 3, issue 227
(March), pp. 610-612
2003 Julian Stallabrass, High
Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s
(London / New York: Verso, 1999)
book review in the Metapsychology
on-line review, Vol. 7, No. 20 (May 14)
TRANSLATIONS
2009 Ottfried Höffe, ed., [anthology of Kant
essays for Cambridge University Press, in preparation]
translation from the German, co-translated with
Michael McGettigan
2003 Bernhard Waldenfels, "From
Intentionality to Responsivity" [link provides 1st page
only]
Revue
Roumaine de Philosophie Vol. 47, No. 1:
15-27
co-translator
from German with Robb E. Eason and Evan M. Selinger (final version
Waldenfels).
1999 Manfred Riedel "Scientific Theory or
Practical Doctrine?"
in Nietzsche
and the Sciences, Vol. I, ed. Babette
Babich
(Dordrecht: Kluwer [now under Springer Verlag]),
pp.187-197
translation from the German
LECTURES
and PAPERS
2008 "Kunst,
Kant, and Kitsch" invited lecture
"Art Forum" lecture series, ESU Art
Department
Emporia, KS (Jan 16, 3pm)
2007 "Traditional
Kitsch: The Danger of Burkean Beauty" paper (stream: "Art
in Communities")
International
Symposium on the Arts in Society
Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), NYC (New York) (Feb
23-25)
2005 "Crowther and the Kantian Sublime in Art"
paper
Right and Peace in Kant’s Philosophy: the
10th International Kant Congress
São Paulo, Brazil (Sept 4-9)
2004
"Kantian Varieties of the Artistic Sublime" paper
(Re)Discovering
Aesthetics, University College Cork, Ireland (July 9-11)
2004
"The Problem of Beauty and Poetry in Kant" paper
1st
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group of the North
American Kant Society
Lincoln Center, NYC (April 16-17)
2003 "The Problem of Poetic Beauty in Kant"
paper for the panel, "Aesthetic Pleasures" (Oct. 9)
Stony
Brook Alumni Conference, Stony Brook University (Oct. 9-11)
2002 "Herder and Kant's Aesthetics on the
Sense of Touch"
paper for joint session with the North American Kant
Society
International
Herder Society Conference, Rice University
Houston, Texas (September 26)
2001 "Kant's Aesthetics and Fractal Art"
paper
for SPSCVA panel: "Philosophy and the Visual Arts" at
Eastern Division APA
Atlanta, Georgia (December 28)
2001 "Systematic Clarification: Sensibility
and the Senses in Kant’s Critique of
Judgment"
paper at the Doctoral Colloquium of the Collegium
Philosophiae Transatlanticum
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Marburg, Germany (June 15)
2001 "Kants Exposition des Erhabenen in der
Kritik der Urteilskraft,"
guest lecture (Sommersemester)
for Prof. Reinhard Brandt, "Kants Kritik
der Urteilskraft"
Philosophische Fakultät, Philipps-Universität
Marburg
Marburg, Germany (May 8)
2000 "Non-Ocular Avenues for Experiencing the
Beautiful in Kant's Critique of Judgment"
paper
at the First German Workshop of the Collegium Philosophiae
Transatlanticum
Marburg, Germany (May 27)
2000 "The Senses of the Sublime:
Possibilities for a Non-Ocular Sublime in Kant's Critique
of Judgment"
paper at the Ninth
International Kant Congress, Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
Berlin, Germany (March 26-31)
1999 "Space, Sight, and Aesthetics"
paper
Inaugural Conference of the Collegium Philosophiae
Transatlanticum
Stony Brook University (September. 2-7)
1995 "Kitsch against Modernity" lecture
Philosophy Department Graduate Colloquium panel:
"Kitsch and Collecting"
with Kevin Melchionne
Stony Brook University (September 28)
COMMENTS on
PAPERS
2004 Comment
on Sonia Sikka, "The Virtues of Relativism: Some Lessons from
Herder"
Central
Division APA, Palmer House, Chicago (April 25)
SERVICE
2003 Organized panel,
"Aesthetic Pleasures" (Oct. 9)
C. E. Emmer / Karmen MacKendrick / David Johnston /
James DiGiovanna
Stony Brook Alumni Conference, Stony Brook University
(Oct. 9-11)
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE (sole instructor for all
courses unless otherwise noted; evaluations available)
PHL 506
Art and Its Problems: Art and the Senses in Kant’s
Aesthetics
Stony Brook Manhattan (Spring 2005)
graduate seminar on Kant's
aesthetics (Critique of Judgment),
framed by Lessing and Herder
focus: the contested role of the senses and its
effect on the division of arts, contextualized by
'Molyneux's question' and Diderot's discussion of
blindness, metaphysics, and taste
texts: Lessing Laocoön
/ Kant Critique of Judgment
/ Herder Sculpture
PHL 530 Aristotle's
Metaphysics
Miami University of Ohio (Spring 2003)
graduate seminar on
Aristotle's "first philosophy" in the Metaphysics,
supplemented by
the Categories and
De Anima
PI 500 Philosophy
of Art and Beauty
Emporia State University (Spring 2008)
figures: Plato / Aristotle / Longinus / Plotinus /
Burke / Kant / Freeland / Danto / Stallabrass
PI 500 C 19th-Century Philosophy
Emporia State University (Spring 2007)
focus: freedom and religion, slavery and philosophy, and the
challenge of Darwin
figures: Fichte / Hegel / Susan Buck-Morss / Feuerbach / Marx /
Peirce / Nietzsche / Darwin
PHI 309 20th-Century
Analytic Philosophy
Stony Brook University (Fall
2003)
focus: concentrates on the classic texts of analytic
philosophy
figures: McTaggart / Russell / Ayer / Wittgenstein /
Austin / Heidegger / Ryle / Nagel / Dennett /
Searle
PHI 300 Ancient Greek
Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle
Stony Brook University (Spring 2002)
focus: course culminates in Aristotle's hylomorphic
theory of substance
figures: Pre-Socratics / Socrates / Plato / Aristotle
PHI 108 Critical &
Logical Thinking
Stony Brook University (Spring 2002)
focus: informal logic (argument & fallacy),
elementary logic, with special
attention to pseudo-science and political persuasion
PHI 105 Social and
Political Philosophy
Stony Brook University (Spring 1998 / Summ II 2002)
figures (2nd version): Rousseau / Kant / Marx / Omi &
Winant / Audre Lorde
figures (1st version): Nagel / Aristotle / Rousseau /
Mill / Marx
PHI 104 Introduction
to Ethics
Hofstra University (Spring 04 /
Fall 04 / Spring 05) [PHI 014]
Stony Brook University (Fall 1997) [Moral Reasoning]
figures (3rd version): Plato / Aristotle / Kant /
Mill / Benedict / Pojman / Rachels
basic approaches: relativism / objectivism /
utilitarianism / deontological ethics
topics (by in-class survey): homosexuality / abortion
/ war (just war + torture)
focus (2nd version): basic approaches (relativism,
objectivism, utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics)
figures (1st version): Nagel / Bible / Aristotle /
Kant / Gilligan / Nietzsche
PHI 100 Introduction
to Philosophy: Freedom and Self-Control
Hofstra University, Hempstead NY (Fall 2003) [PHI
010]
Miami University, Oxford OH (Spring 2003) [PHL 105
Theories of Human Nature]
Stony Brook University (Fall 98 / Spring 99 / Summ II
02 / Fall 02 / Fall 04) [Concepts of the
Person]
focus: freedom, self-control, and the division of the
soul
figures: Plato / Aristotle / Bible / Marcus Aurelius
/ Pagels / Kant
EGC 101
Basic Writing
Stony Brook University (Fall 1995 / Spring 1996)
English composition (narrative, descriptive, and
persuasive)
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