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Publications from 2021
Foucault’s Kant, Robert B. Louden PhD
Kant and the “Old formula of the schools”, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 2020
The Role of Marriage in Hegel’s Phenomenology, Joseph Arel PhD
Creating a Multidirectional Memory for Healing in the Former Yugoslavia, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD
Pharmaceutical Memory Modification and Christianity’s ‘Dangerous’ Memory, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD
A Haunted Church: Ecclesial Sex Abuse and Intergenerational Trauma, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD and Kimberly Humphrey PhD
Publications from 2019
‘In the Bone’: Race, Theological Anthropology, and Intergenerational Trauma, Stephanie C. Edwards PhD
Comment to Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy, Robert B. Louden PhD
Education and the Overcoming of Evil, Robert B. Louden PhD
Kant the Naturalist, Robert B. Louden PhD
The University of the Future: Stiegler after Derrida, Constance Mui and Julien Murphy PhD
Publications from 2018
An Analysis of Recent Empirical Data on ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’, Yishai Cohen PhD
Atonement’s Axiological Boundaries, Yishai Cohen PhD
Deliberating in the Presence of Manipulation, Yishai Cohen PhD
Costs of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby’s Sincerely-Held Beliefs, Megan Goodwin PhD
Publications from 2017
Fischer’s Deterministic Frankfurt-Style Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD
Planned Parenthood? Forsaking American Women for the Mother of All Bombs, Megan Goodwin PhD
Sarsour’s Struggle for Justice: It Is Our Duty to Think Harder or Sit Down, Megan Goodwin PhD
Staying After Class: Memory and Materiality beyond Heaven’s Gate, Megan Goodwin PhD
‘Wretched Subterfuge’? Comments on Frederick Rauscher’s Naturalism and Realism in Kant’s Ethics, Robert B. Louden PhD
Victims, Power and Intellectuals: Laruelle and Sartre, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD
Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man, Jason Read PhD
Ideology as Individuation, Individuating Ideology, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2016
Conscience and the Oracular Affirmation of Contingency in Action, Joseph Arel PhD
Counterfactuals of Divine Freedom, Yishai Cohen PhD
Leeway Compatibilism and Frankfurt-Style Cases, Yishai Cohen PhD
Actualism Has Control Issues, Yishai Cohen PhD and Travis Timmerman PhD
‘They Do That to Foreign Women’: Domestic Terrorism and Contraceptive Nationalism in Not Without My Daughter, Megan Goodwin PhD
#VanillaISIS, White Tears, and the Adventures of Captain Moroni, Megan Goodwin PhD
When the Vampire Looks: Gender and Surveillance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Megan Goodwin PhD
‘Total Transformation’: Why Kant Did Not Give up on Education, Robert B. Louden PhD
Radicalizing the Root: The Return of Philosophical Anthropology to the Critique of Political Economy, Jason Read PhD
The Individuation of the Common, Jason Read PhD
The Politics of Transindividuality, Jason Read Ph.D.
Actualism and Possibilism, Travis Timmerman PhD and Yishai Cohen PhD
Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist?, Travis Timmerman PhD and Yishai Cohen PhD
Publications from 2015
Agential Settling Requires a Conscious Intention, Yishai Cohen PhD
Endless Future: A Persistent Thorn in the Kalām Cosmological Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD
Molinists (Still) Cannot Endorse the Consequence Argument, Yishai Cohen PhD
The Manipulation Argument, At the Very Least, Undermines Classical Compatibilism, Yishai Cohen PhD
Don't Be Tooken in by 'Kimmy Schmidt's' Cult, Megan Goodwin PhD
Everything New Is Old Again: New Religious Movements as American Minority Religions, Megan Goodwin PhD
#YesAllWomen: Online Feminism, Religion, and Risk, Megan Goodwin PhD
Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners, Megan Goodwin PhD and Andrew Aghapour
Why be Moral?, Robert B. Louden Ph.D. and Beatrix Himmelmann
’Pierre Loves Horranges’: Sartre and Malabou on the Fantastic in Philosophy, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD
Experiences with Establishment of a Multi-University Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense, Julien Murphy PhD, R.T. Albert, C. Bennett, David Briggs PhD, Maureen Ebben PhD, H. Felch, D. Kokoska, L. Lovewell, C. MacDonald, G. Markowsky, L. Markowsky, Edward Sihler, and G. Wilson
Publications from 2014
Don’t Count on Taurek: Vindicating the Case for the Numbers Counting, Yishai Cohen PhD
Reasons-Responsiveness and Time Travel, Yishai Cohen PhD
Review of Robert C. Roberts, Emotions in the Moral Life, Yishai Cohen PhD
Kantian Anthropology: A Science Like No Other, Robert B. Louden PhD
Nietzsche as Kant’s True Heir?, Robert B. Louden PhD
The Last Frontier: Exploring Kant’s Geography, Robert B. Louden PhD
Unpacking MOOC Scholarly Discourse: A Review of he Nascent MOOC Scholarship, Julien Murphy PhD and Maureen Ebben PhD
Building a Virtual Cybersecurity Collaborative Learning Laboratory (VCCLL), Julien Murphy PhD, Edward Sihler, Maureen Ebben PhD, and Glenn Wilson
The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari [Blog Post], Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2013
Skeptical Theism and the Threshold Problem, Yishai Cohen PhD
Don’t Stand So Close to Me: On Not Hearing Elizabeth Smart, Megan Goodwin PhD
El Kant de Foucault, Robert B. Louden PhD
Reply to Pablo Muchnik, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 2011
Thinking Sex and American Religions, Megan Goodwin PhD
Books from 2010
Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles, Megan Goodwin PhD
A New Enlightenment?, Robert B. Louden PhD
The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2009
Queer, Not Gay: Limits of Acceptable Sexual Transgressions in NRM Discourse, Megan Goodwin PhD
Language: Who/What Has It? (And Were Aristotle and Descartes Right?), Robert B. Louden PhD
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2008
Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View: Toward a Cosmopolitan Conception of Human Nature, Robert B. Louden PhD
Evil Everywhere: The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 2007
‘Firm as a Rock in Her Own Principles’ (But Not Necessarily a Kantian), Robert B. Louden PhD
Kantian Moral Humility: Between Aristotle and Paul, Robert B. Louden PhD
Politics as Subjectification: Rethinking the Figure of the Worker in the Thought of Badiou and Rancière, Jason Read PhD
The Order and Connection of Ideas: Theoretical Practice in Macherey’s Turn to Spinoza, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2005
Informed Consent: Ethical Issues for Pathologists when Banking Human Tissue for Clinical Research, Julien Murphy PhD and Karen Rasmussen
The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality, Jason Read PhD
The Present as Pre-History: Adorno and Balibar on the Transformation of Labor, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2003
Enduring Freedom: Globalizing Children’s Rights, Constance L. Mui PhD and Julien Murphy PhD
A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2002
’A Seguna Parte da Moral’: A Antropolgia de Kant e sua relação com a Metafisica dos Costumes, Robert B. Louden PhD
‘The Second Part of Morals’: Kant’s Moral Anthropology and its Relationship to his Metaphysics of Morals, Robert B. Louden PhD
A Fugitive Thread: The Production of Subjectivity in Marx, Jason Read PhD
Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2001
The Hidden Abode of Biopolitical Production: Empire and the Ontology of Production, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 2000
Everything is Production: Notes on Deleuze and Guattari’s Marxism, Jason Read PhD
Books from 1999
Feminist interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
The Antagonistic Ground of Constitutive Power: An Essay on the Thought of Antonio Negri, Jason Read PhD
Publications from 1997
The Education of Humanity: A Kantian Primer, Robert B. Louden PhD
What is Moral Authority? εὐβουλία, σύνεσις, and γνώμη vs. φρόνησις, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 1996
Toward a Genealogy of ‘Deontology’, Robert B. Louden PhD
Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, Kathleen Wininger PhD
Publications from 1995
Butler's Divine Utilitarianism, Robert B. Louden PhD
The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology, and Ethics, Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
Publications from 1994
On Pincoffs's Conception of Ethics, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 1992
Go-Carts of Judgment: Exemplars in Kantian Moral Education, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 1991
Feminism and Socialism: Report from the 3rd Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers, Julien Murphy PhD, Ofelia Schutte, Jan Slagter, and Linda Lopez McAllister
Publications from 1990
Virtue Ethics and Anti-Theory, Robert B. Louden PhD
Publications from 1989
Through Thick and Thin: Moral Knowledge in Skeptical Times, Robert B. Louden PhD
Ectogenesis and Future Concerns, Julien Murphy PhD
Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis, Julien Murphy PhD
