Faculty | Philosophy | SIU

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, and numerous articles in the philosophy of culture, history of philosophy, philosophy of ...read full profile >>

Nineteenth and 20th-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. Curriculum Vitae

Alfred Frankowski specializes in Critical Philosophy of Race, African American and Africana Philosophy, Aesthetics, Post-Colonialism and Critical Genocide Studies. He also has a background in 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy and Contemporary Political Philosophy. He publishes articles on cultural ...read full profile >>

Ancient Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, history and philosophy of science. Broad interests in the history of ancient and modern astronomy and physics, ancient technologies, the contributions of ancient Egypt and monumental architecture to early Greek philosophy and cosmology, ancient ...read full profile >>

Contemporary French and German philosophy, phenomenology, social ontology and aesthetics. Author of It’s Not about the Gift: From Givenness to Loving (forthcoming 2018), Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl (2017), Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart (2014). Recipient of the ...read full profile >>

Philosophy of economics and sociology, contemporary continental philosophy (Scheler, Foucault), American philosophy (Puritanism, James, African American), ethics, social/political philosophy. Author of Utopian Visions Past, Present and Future: Rethinking the Ethical Foundations of Economy; Economics as Moral ...read full profile >>

Areas of specialization: Spinoza, Early Modern philosophy, Modern Moral philosophy. Author of "Spinoza's Theories of Value" in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (April 2010), "Spinoza's Model of Human Nature" in the Journal of the History of Philosophy (January 2010), ...read full profile >>