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Faculty
Adjunct Instructors Robert Bernasconi, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy
rbernscn@memphis.edu
Professor Bernasconi received his BA and PhD degrees from Sussex University in England. His research and teaching interests are in recent continental philosophy, Hegel, race theory, and social and political philosophy. He has published numerous articles in these areas. He has published two books with Humanities Press: The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (1985) and Heidegger in Question (1993). He recently edited Race, which is published with Blackwell, and co-edited (with Tommy Lott) The Idea of Race, which is published with Hackett. He also co-edited (with Simon Critchley) The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002) and (with Sybol Cook) Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (2003).
Pleshette DeArmitt, Assistant Professor
pdearmtt@memphis.edu
Professor DeArmitt received her BA from Duquesne University and MA and PhD degrees from DePaul University. Her research and teaching interests include feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and contemporary Continental thought. She has published articles on Kristeva, Kofman, and Derrida in journals such as Research in Phenomenology, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy Today. She is the co-editor of Reading Sarah Kofman’s Corpus (forthcoming with SUNY Press) and a memorial issue of Epoché on Jacques Derrida (2006). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript on the relationship between self-love and subjectivity.
Remy Debes, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
rdebes@memphis.edu, Web site: http://umdrive.memphis.edu/rdebes/www/index.htm
Professor Debes received his BA from Boston University and his PhD from the University of Michigan, where he was named a Charlotte Newcombe Fellow in 2005-06. His primary research is in ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of emotion. Currently he is working on problems related to the normative justification of emotion, the relationship between such justification and empathy, and the nature and theoretical import of human dignity. He also has secondary research interests in early modern philosophy, especially the moral philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith, with two articles in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy: “Humanity, Sympathy, and the Puzzle of Hume's Second Enquiry” and “Has Anything Changed? Hume's Theory of Association and Sympathy After the Treatise.”
Gene G. James, Professor
ggjames@memphis.edu
Professor James received his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1969. He is a past president of the American Society for Value Inquiry, is a recipient of the University of Memphis Distinguished Teaching Award, has published numerous articles, is coauthor with Nancy Simco of Elementary Logic (Wadsworth), and editor of the anthology The Search for Faith and Justice in the Twentieth Century (Paragon). His primary areas of interest are value theory, applied ethics, American philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Leonard Lawlor, Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy
lrlawlor@memphis.edu; Web site: http://umdrive.memphis.edu/lrlawlor/www/index.htm
Professor Lawlor received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. His primary research and teaching interest is contemporary Continental philosophy, including Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, Husserl, and Nietzsche. He is the author of several books: Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology (Indiana, 2002); Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Indiana, 2003); The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics (Continuum Books, 2003); and Imagination and Chance: The Difference Between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida (SUNY Press, 1992). He is one of the co-editors of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. He has translated Merleau-Ponty and Hyppolite into English. He has written dozens of articles on Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Gadamer. He received a Faudree-Hardin Professorship in 2004. He is in the process of writing a new book to be called Memory and Life: An Archaeology of the Experience of Thought.
Bill E. Lawson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
belawson@memphis.edu
Professor Lawson received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at Spelman College, Montclair State College, West Virginia University, the University of Delaware, and Michigan State University. His published works include Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, edited with Donald Koch (2004, Indiana University Press); My Bondage and My Freedom: An Introduction to Frederick Douglass's 'My Bondage and My Freedom' (2002, Humanity Books); Faces of Environmental Racism, edited with Laura Westra, second edition (2001, Rowman & Littlefield); Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, edited with Frank Kirkland (1999, Blackwell); The Underclass Question (1992, Temple University Press); and Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery, with Howard McGary (1992, Indiana University Press). He will be teaching courses in the areas of African American philosophy and social and political philosophy.
Mary Beth Mader, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Admissions
mmader@memphis.edu
Professor Mader received a BA in philosophy from Smith College and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth century continental philosophy, feminist theory, and ethics. She was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship in 1992 and is the translator of Luce Irigaray's The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger.
Sarah Clark Miller, Assistant Professor
scmillr1@memphis.edu
Professor Miller received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a BA in Philosophy and Modern Dance from Haverford College. She is currently a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics and holds an American Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. Her primary research and teaching interests include ethical theory, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, the history of moral philosophy, and applied ethics. She has published articles on need and obligation, Kant’s practical philosophy, global ethics, feminist theory, biomedical ethics and Simone de Beauvoir. Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and a Max Kade Foundation Research Fellow. She is currently completing a book on global responsibility.
Thomas Nenon, Professor
tnenon@memphis.edu
Professor Nenon received his PhD from the University of Freiburg in Germany. He worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His publications include Objectivitaet und endliche Erkenntnis, a study of Kant's theory of truth; critical editions of Husserl's works in Volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana; articles on Kant, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Weber, and Heidegger and on translation and literary interpretation; and translations of books on Schelling and Heidegger into English and a book on analytic philosophy into German. He has served as review editor for Husserl Studies, a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and former Director of the Center for the Humanities. His current research interests include Husserl's theories of personhood and subjectivity and Kant and Hegel's practical philosophy.
Hoke Robinson, Professor
hrobinsn@memphis.edu
Professor Robinson received an MA in philosophy from the University of Texas, studied at the University of Erlangen (W. Germany), and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His teaching areas are Kant, rationalism, and history of modern philosophy. His publications include “Incongruent Counterparts and the Refutation of Idealism,” Kant-Studien (1981); “All or Nothing in Objective Judgment,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1984); “Objects for Transcendental Arguments,” Proceedings, 5th International Kant Congress l985 ; “The Priority of Inner Sense,” Kant-Studien (1988); “Two Perspectives on Kant's Appearances and Things in Themselves,” Journal of the History of Philosophy (1994), and various translations and editions. He has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Mainz and Freiburg (Germany) and is past president of the North American Kant Society and of the Southwestern Philosophical Society. He was coordinator of the Eighth International Kant Congress.
Timothy D. Roche, Associate Professor
troche@memphis.edu
Professor Roche completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of California at Davis. He teaches courses in Greek philosophy, theoretical ethics, and social and political philosophy. His publications include “Utilitarianism versus Rawls: Defending Teleological Moral Theory,” Social Theory and Practice (1982); “Ergon and Eudaimonia in Nicomachean Ethics I: Reconsidering the Intellectualist Interpretation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy (1988); “On the Alleged Metaphysical Foundation of Aristotle's Ethics,” Ancient Philosophy (1988); “In Defense of an Alternative View of the Foundation of Aristotle's Moral Theory,” Phronesis (1992); and “The Ultimate End of Action: A Critique of Richard Kraut's Aristotle on the Human Good,” in The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics (1995). He is currently completing a book entitled Aristotle's Nicomachean Conception of Happiness.
Kas Saghafi, Assistant Professor
ksaghafi@memphis.edu
Professor Saghafi earned his MA and PhD from DePaul University. He researches and teaches in contemporary Continental philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. He was the recipient of a Chateaubriand Fellowship and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has published articles on contemporary French philosophy in journals such as International Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy Today, Mosaic, and Research in Phenomenology. He is the co-editor of a memorial issue of Epoché devoted to Jacques Derrida (Spring 2006) and is completing a book on Derrida.
Nancy D. Simco, Professor and Chair
nsimco@memphis.edu
Professor Simco received her PhD from the University of Kansas in 1969. She has taught courses in analytic philosophy, contemporary metaphysics, and advanced logic. Her published work is mainly in logic. She is editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy and has served as president of the Association of Philosophy Journal Editors, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Southwestern Philosophical Society, as well as on numerous committees of several professional organizations.
John Tienson, Professor
jtienson@memphis.edu
Professor Tienson received a BA in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. His teaching and research interests include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the British empiricists. He has published extensively on the foundations of cognitive science (mainly in collaboration with Terence Horgan, currently at the University of Arizona), including Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology (MIT Press, 1996) and “Cognition Needs Syntax but Not Rules,” Debates in Cognitive Science (Blackwell, in press). He is currently working on a book in the philosophy of mind entitled Phenomenal Intentionality for Oxford University Press (with Terence Horgan and George Graham, Wake Forest University). He has recently published nearly a dozen articles in the philosophy of mind, including “The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality” (with Horgan) in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. David Chalmers (Oxford University Press).
Deborah Tollefsen, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies
dtollfsn@memphis.edu; Web site: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/dtollfsn/www/index.htm
Professor Tollefsen received a BA in philosophy from St. Anselm College, an MA from the University of South Carolina, and a PhD in philosophy from the Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests include philosophy of mind, epistemology, and social ontology. Recent publications include “Collective Intentionality and the Social Sciences” in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and “Participant Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility” in Philosophical Explorations.
Cima, Paula
pmcima@bellsouth.net Hollander, Sheila
shollandr@memphis.edu Kaiser, Marda
mkaiser@memphis.edu Kramer, Jason
jckramer@memphis.edu Sen, Amit
amitsen@memphis.edu
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