Michael Strawser, PhD

Michael Strawser, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Co-Editor: Florida Philosophical Review

Department of Philosophy

University of Central Florida

Orlando, FL 32816-1352

Office: Psychology Building 245 Curriculum Vitae

Office Phone: 407-823-2799 Family Pictures

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:50 to 4:20 pm and by appointment

E-mail: strawser@mail.ucf.edu

Recent Awards

Flagler College Alumni Professional Achievement Award, 2008.

UCF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007.

Recent Publications

“A Place for Forgiveness? A Derridean Response to Terrorism.” Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Perspectives. Eds. Philip Quadrio and Carrol Besseling. Sydney University Press, forthcoming.

“Looking for a Common Watermark: Loving Others in Kierkegaard and Levinas.” Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and Its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas. Eds. Claudia Welz and Karl Verstrynge. London: Turnshare, 2008. 127-140.

“A Panegyric on Spinoza and Derrida: Saintly Jewish Heretics Striving Towards a ‘Pure Religion’.” Florida Philosophical Review VIII.1 (2008): 108-124.

“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.

Review of Rick Anthony Furtak’s Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity. Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter 50 (August 2006).

“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. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.

“Kierkegaardian Meditations on First Philosophy: A Reading of Johannes Climacus.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 32.4 (October 1994): 623-643.

Recent Conference Presentations

“Is There a Self in Pre-reflective Consciousness?” International Interdisciplinary Conference on Self, Identity and Culture: East and West, Kolkata, India, January 6-9, 2009.

“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, Salzburg, Austria, March 2008.

“A Place for Forgiveness? A Derridean Response to Terrorism,” Dialogues in Place: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2007.

“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, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, February 8, 2007.

Current Course Materials

PHI 2010-0002: Introduction to Philosophy

Syllabus, Introduction, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo Reading, Plato’s Cave, Clouds

Kierkegaard I, Review, Kierkegaard II, Spinioza I, Spinoza II, Spinoza Strengths and Weaknesses, Review II

Nietzsche I, Nietzsche II, Review III

PHH 3600: Contemporary Philosophy

Syllabus, Test Instructions, Presentation Schedule, Russell, Wittgenstein I, Logical Positivists, Wittgenstein II

Dewey-Moore, Ryle-Hardy, Quine, Goodman, Kuhn-Fields, Davidson-Bolinger, Putnam-Urso, Husserl, Husserl-Werner, Husserl-Cali, Heidegger-Sloan, Heidegger-Main, Heidegger, Sartre-Aguda, Nothingness, Sartre-Shults, Sartre Freedom, de Beauvoir-Roberts, Gadamer-Gaisser, Gadamer, Habermas-Jackson, Foucault-Schiff, Derrida, Rorty-Wilson