makerw@clemson.edu

Dr. Maker has been at Clemson since 1979, after having received his Ph.D from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1978. He was an undergraduate philosophy major at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and also studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg and the University of Braunschweig in Germany. His specialty is 19th and 20th century German philosophy, in particular Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Many of his publications have focused on the relevance of Hegel's philosophy for a host of contemporary philosophical and practical discussions. He has published Philosophy Without Foundations and has edited collections of essays on Hegel on Economics and Freedom and Hegel and Aesthetics. He regularly teaches Science and Values, 19th Century Philosophy, and a seminar on Nietzsche. His latest non-philosophical pursuit is getting a 1937 Harley flathead chopper on the road.

yanming@CLEMSON.EDU

Dr. An received his Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan, 1997; M.A. & B.A. in Philosophy from Fudan University, China, 1985 and 1982. Before coming to the U.S. in 1991, he had worked as a research fellow, specializing in Philosophy of history and society, and deputy director of a research section at Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He joined the faculty of Clemson University in 1999, after two years teaching respectively in University of Michigan and Princeton University. The courses he has taught include, Philosophy in Ancient China, Philosophy in Modern China, Buddhism in China, Comparative topics of Eastern and Western Philosophies, Daoism and Chan Buddhism, Introduction to Chinese Civilization, and Chinese language at all levels, modern and classic. He has published extensively, in Chinese and English, on Chinese and Western philosophy.

pcohen@clemson.edu

Dr. Cohen received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in Humanities and Religion, his M.A. from Florida State University in Biblical Studies and his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Springfield College. His dissertation was entitled “A Motif Index of the Angel of Death in Early Rabbinic Literature.” Dr. Cohen came to Clemson in 1995 after teaching at Appalachian State University, Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College. His teaching interests revolve around looking at the common traits shared by the religious traditions of the world, rather looking for their differences. Dr. Cohen can often be found teaching adult education in area churches on Sunday mornings or as an instructor in the University’s Osher Life Long Learning Institute for retired people from the community. Presently, he is teaching the general education courses in Religion for the department.

agarnar@clemson.edu

Andrew holds a BA in philosophy and physics from Beloit College and an MS and PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. His work focuses on the ethical implications of the metaphysics of contemporary life. He is particularly concerned with how science and technology restructure the ways humans conceive of themselves and the rest of the world. Andrew has also researched and taught courses on the ethical impacts of globalization. To this end, he draws on the work of American philosophy, the Marxist tradition and some contemporary French philosophy. He is currently working on a book that uses pragmatism as a means to understand human subjectivity. His recent publications include “Power, Action, Signs: Between Foucault and Peirce” in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2006) and, co-authored with Valerie Hardcastle, “An Unnecessary Divide: Neural Models in Psychiatry” in The Philosophy of Psychiatry (Oxford, 2004).

grau@clemson.edu

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Dr. Grau received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from New York University. Chris specializes in ethics (including applied ethics), topics in metaphysics (personal identity, free will), and philosophy & film. Some recent publications include: "Irreplaceability & Unique Value," Philosophical Topics, 32; "There is no 'I' in Robot: Robots & Utilitarianism," IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Machine Ethics, 21:4; and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64:1. He also edited Philosophers Explore The Matrix (Oxford University Press, 2005). Prior to coming to Clemson, Chris was Visiting Assistant Professor at UNC – Chapel Hill and Assistant Professor at Florida International University in Miami.

sgrosby@clemson.edu

Dr. Grosby received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. His areas of research include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the relation between religion and nationality, and Social and Political Philosophy. His recent works include Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern (2002) and the edition and translation of Hans Freyer, Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture. Series in Continental Thought No. 25 (1998). He has also edited two volumes of selected writings of Edward Shils, The Virtue of Civility (1997) and The Calling of Education (1997). His many articles have appeared in journals such as Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, History of Religions, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, and Nations and Nationalism. He has also co-edited Nationality and Nationalism--a four volume Reader (2004) and is currently finishing a book on nationalism for the Oxford University Press series.

nhardes@clemson.edu

Dr. Hardesty received her Master's degree in newspaper journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She worked for both The Christian Century and Eternity magazines before pursuing her Ph.D. in the History of Christianity from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, under the direction of Martin E. Marty, was titled "'Your Daughters Shall Prophesy': Revivalism and Feminism in the Age of Finney." It was published under that title by Carlson Publishers. She is also the author of Women Called to Witness (Abingdon Press; rev. ed. University of Tennessee Press); Great Women of Faith (Baker; Abingdon Press); and Inclusive Language in the Church (Westminster John Knox Press). With Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Hardesty wrote All We're Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today, which has gone through three editions with Word Books, Abingdon Press, and Eerdmans. She has just recently published Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements (Hendrickson Publishers). Other research interests include African American religion and women and religion in the South.

suliam@clemson.edu

Sulia received his M.A. from Denver Seminary and his B.A. from African Bible College, and he is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in 19-century American pragmatism, philosophy of religion and ethics. Sulia’s dissertation project investigates the limits of C.S. Peirce’s criticisms of Descartes. A recent presentation was “Definition and Criteria: A Perspective on Divine Command Morality,” at the Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional meeting, April 2007. Before coming to Clemson, Sulia taught at USC and several community colleges in South Carolina and Colorado.

mayt@clemson.edu

Dr. May took his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1989, and has been at Clemson (after a brief stint at Indiana University of Pennsylvania) since 1991. He specializes in Continental philosophy, especially recent French philosophy. His seven philosophical books often focus on the philosophical work of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and (more recently) Jacques Ranciere but also seek to bridge the gap between "Anglo-American" and "Continental" styles of philosophy that developed in the early twentieth century. His teaching interests are varied; he has found himself teaching classes as diverse as The Thought of Merleau-Ponty, Resistance and Alterity in Contemporary Culture, Secular Ethics in a Materialist Age, Postmodernism and Art, and Moral Realism.

dperpic@clemson.edu

Dr. Perpich received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College. Her research and teaching interests include theories of gender and sexuality, contemporary continental philosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal devoted to the work of Emmanuel Levinas and has written extensively on Levinas’s ethics as well as on contemporary French theorists such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, and others. She is currently at work on a project that looks at conceptions of singularity in twentieth-century European social and political theory. Her most recent interest is in the intersection of gender, technology, and bodies. She teaches courses on Gender and Sexuality, Technobodies, Social and Political Philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy.

stephen@clemson.edu

Dr. Satris joined Clemson in 1986. He did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Hawaii (M.A., 1971) and Cambridge University in England (Ph.D., 1984). He designed and teaches a course at Clemson on ethics in architecture. He also teaches Introduction to Ethics, Moral Philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy on a regular basis. His books include Ethical Emotivism (Nijhoff, 1987) and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Moral Issues (10th ed., McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2006) -- a text widely used at colleges and universities throughout the United States. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of the History of Ideas, Teaching Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Choice, Philosophy Today and the Journal of Value Inquiry.

robins8@clemson.edu

Christa joined the department as a Lecturer in Religion in 2006. She received her M.A. and M.Phil. from Syracuse University and is currently working on her dissertation, entitled "The Body of Love: Conceiving Perfection in the Oneida Community." The dissertation incorporates many of her research and teaching interests, including the history of religion, specifically in the American context, religion and sexuality, religion and utopia, and religious conceptions of time. Her broader interests include the history of the academic study of religion. Recent presentations include "The Violence of Love: Eros, Transgression, and Religion in Georges Bataille" and "Master(Mistress)/Slave: Reading Power and Dialectic in Hegel and Masoch."

sstuart@clemson.edu

Dr. Silvers received his M.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona. He has authored more than forty articles in scholarly journals (including Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Inquiry, Philosophical Psychology, and Metaphilosophy) and anthologies, edited a book on mental representation, and lectured widely in Europe, Canada, and the US. Before joining the Clemson faculty in 1989, he held the Professorial Chair in Theory of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and prior to that he has been a member of the faculty in the Philosophy Departments at The University of Leiden, The Netherlands, California State University Fullerton, the University of Florida, and the University of Pittsburgh.

kcs@clemson.edu

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Dr. Smith came to Clemson in 1998. He received his M.S. in Zoology (Evolutionary Genetics) from Duke University in 1992, followed by his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1994. He clings stubbornly to the idea of the Renaissance man, and actually seems to believe that the humanities have something interesting to say to the sciences and vice versa. This eclectic orientation can be seen in his research on a wide array of interdisciplinary topics, including the concept of genetic disease; the relationship between religious faith and scientific reasoning; the ethical implications of new biotechnologies; complex systems in developmental and evolutionary biology; the origins and nature of life and, most recently, philosophical issues surrounding the search for life on other planets. His work has been published in numerous professional journals including The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Biology and Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science. He is also something of a talking head and regularly does interviews for the press, including a recent appearance on CNN Presents: Is there Anybody Out There? Kelly is, however, a teacher first and foremost, and is proud of having sown Socratic seeds of confusion in classes ranging from seminars on Kant and Biotechnology and various other offerings as his mood and availability allow. His regular teaching rotation currently includes Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 101), Logic (PHIL 102), Science and Values (PHIL 326), Environmental Ethics (PHIL 345), Medical Ethics (PHIL 346), Philosophy and Biology (PHIL/BIOSC 485/685), seminars in Kant, Aristotle and The Philosophical Foundations of Science and Calhoun Honors seminars such as The Lure and Fear of Biotechnology.

cstarke@clemson.edu

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Dr. Starkey joined the Department in 2003. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Iowa State University. His primary research interests are in emotion theory and moral psychology, and his current research examines the nature of moral experience and its relation to perception and cognition. Such research includes the relevance of emotion to moral agency and moral character. In addressing these issues, he draws on traditional ethical theory, the philosophy of mind, and empirical psychological research. Some recent publications include “Manipulating Emotion: The Best Evidence for Noncognitivism in the Light of Proper Function” Analysis 67 (July 2007), “The Land Ethic, Moral Development, and Ecological Rationality” Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (April 2007), “On the Scope of Moral Perception” Social Theory and Practice 32 (January 2006), and “Virtue and Mentation” Journal of Value Inquiry 39. Since 2005 he has been the coach of the Clemson University Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team.

dstegal@clemson.edu

Dr. Stegall received his MLS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1988, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Georgia in 2001. His dissertation focused upon the work of Albert Camus. His areas of interest and specialization are Existentialism and Hermeneutics. At Clemson he has taught Logic and Business Ethics.

athomp6@clemson.edu

http://people.clemson.edu/~athomp6/

Dr. Thompson received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He joined the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Clemson in 2006 after teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. His primary research interests concern ethical, aesthetic, and metaphysical issues in environmental philosophy and topics in neo-Aristotelian ethical theory, including naturalism and practical reason. Other areas of his philosophic interest include social and political philosophy, biological evolution, cognitive science, and moral psychology. He recently published “Environmentalism, Moral Responsibility, and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing” in Ethics, Place, and Environment while his recent conference presentations include “Neurathian Naturalism: Reconciling themes in neo-Aristotelian ethics,” “The Practice of Ecological Identification: Teaching deep ecology and environmental pragmatism,” and “On the End of Nature, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love global warming.”

georgew@clemson.edu

Dr. Wilson is a native Greenvillian and a graduate of the University of South Carolina (B. S.) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M. Div., Ph. D.) His particular training is New Testament and he was an Instructor in the New Testament Department at Southern Seminary during his doctoral studies. He has served as Senior Minister of the First Baptist Church in Jefferson, GA, the Weatherly Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL, and the First Baptist Church in Clemson, retiring the end of 2006. He did pulpit exchanges with ministers in Wales and England. He has been quite active in civic affairs in the communities he has served and is an avid tennis player and traveler. He is married to Frances Turner and they have two children and four grandchildren.

ernest@clemson.edu

Daniel E. Wueste is associate professor of philosophy. He did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.A., 1979) and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D., 1985). His research and writing focus on issues in three areas: legal philosophy, social and political philosophy, and professional ethics. Wueste has a special interest in what ethicists can learn from legal philosophers and vice versa. His first article pursuing this interest, "The Realist's Challenge in Professional Ethics: Taking Some Cues From Legal Philosophy," was published in the journal Professional Ethics. Wueste’s work has appeared in various journals including Cornell Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. He is the author of the chapter on professional ethics in The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, and the editor of Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994). Wueste serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University.

kwolfe@clemson.edu

Kourtney received her master’s degree in Religion from Syracuse University and her B.A. in Spanish and International studies from Elon College. Her research interests revolve around the use of (post)colonial and violence theories as lenses for the examination of the religious implications of the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. Kourtney teaches the courses World Religions and Introduction to Religion.

djones1@clemson.edu