Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Co-Editor:
Florida Philosophical Review
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407-823-2799 Family
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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
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“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.
“A
Panegyric on Spinoza and Derrida: Saintly Jewish Heretics Striving Towards a
‘Pure Religion’.”
“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.
“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,
“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,
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“Striving for Love in Spinoza and
Kierkegaard,” Søren
Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Pacific Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association,
“Looking for a Common Watermark: Loving Others
in Kierkegaard and Levinas,” Kierkegaard and
Levinas Workshop, Center for Subjectivity Research,
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
PHI 3700: Philosophy of Religion
Syllabus,
Euthyphro, Rachels,
Boethius, etc., Anselm, etc., Aquinas, Hume, Kierkegaard, Study Guide, James, Theology
and Falsification
Previously Taught Courses
PHI 2010 Intro to Philosophy
(Collaborative)
PHI 3083 Research Methods in Philosophy
PHH 3460 Modern Western Philosophy
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus