Michael Strawser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Co-Editor:
Florida Philosophical Review
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Office Hours: Mondays and
Wednesdays from noon to 1:00 pm and by appointment
E-mail: strawser@mail.ucf.edu
Recent and Forthcoming
Publications
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“Looking
for a Common Watermark: Loving Others in Kierkegaard and Levinas,” forthcoming
in Despite Oneself: The Secret of
Subjectivity in Kierkegaard and Levinas (
“A Panegyric on Spinoza and Derrida: Two Saintly
Jewish Heretics Striving Towards a ‘Pure Religion’,” forthcoming in Florida Philosophical Review (2008).
“The Ethics of Love in Spinoza and Kierkegaard
and the Teleological Suspension of the Theological,” Philosophy Today 51.4 (Winter 2007): 438-446.
Review
of Sherry Deveaux’s The Role of God in
Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Philosophy in
Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques XXVII, no.5 (October 2007): 331-333.
Review
of Amy Laura Hall’s Kierkegaard and the
Treachery of Love and Joel D.S. Rasmussen’s Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard’s Poetics of Faith, Hope, and
Love, Religion and Literature 39.1 (Spring 2007): 132-136.
“Gifts
of Silence from Kierkegaard to Derrida,” Soundings
89:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2006): 55-72.
“Creating Philosophy: Using a Cooperative
Learning Approach in the Classroom,” Teaching
Philosophy 28:2 (June 2005):
115-134.
Both/And:
Reading Kierkegaard from Irony to Edification (Fordham University Press,
1997)
Recent
and Upcoming Conference Presentations
“On
the Specter of Speciesism in Spinoza,” North American Spinoza Society Meeting
at the Pacific Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, Pasadena, CA, March 2008.
“Between
Terrorism and Forgiveness: Exploring Derrida’s Post-Secular Thinking,” First
Global Forgiveness Conference,
“A
Place for Forgiveness? A Derridean Response to Terrorism,” Dialogues in Place: Australasian
Society for Continental Philosophy,
“Striving for Love in Spinoza and
Kierkegaard,” Søren
Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Pacific Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, April 2007.
“Looking for a Common Watermark: Loving Others
in Kierkegaard and Levinas,” Kierkegaard and
Levinas Workshop, Center for Subjectivity Research,
Current
Course Materials
PHI 2010 A002: Introduction to Philosophy (Summer
A)
Syllabus,
Introduction, Euthyphro,
Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Reading, Plato’s
Cave, Clouds
Kierkegaard I, Review, Kierkegaard II, Spinioza
I, Spinoza II, Review II
Nietzsche I, Nietzsche II, Review III
Previously Taught Courses
PHI 2010H Honors Introduction to Philosophy
PHI 2010 Intro to Philosophy (Collaborative)
PHH 3460 Modern Western Philosophy
PHH
3600 Contemporary Philosophy
PHI 3700 Philosophy of Religion
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus