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 E-mail: strawser at mail.ucf.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:30 pm and by appointment

Current Course Materials

PHI 3083 Research Methods in Philosophy: Course Syllabus, Intro. PPT, HRB I, HRB II, Gadamer I, Gadamer II, Outlining and Storyboarding,

Deductive Arguments, Style

IDH 3930H Case Studies in Ethics: Course Syllabus, Intro to Moral Philosophy PPT, Kant and Aristotle, Creativity and Cases

Recent Awards

Flagler College Alumni Professional Achievement Award, 2008.

UCF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007.

Recent and Selected 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.

“Forgiving Derrida: From Terrorism to Self-Forgiveness.” eBook, Inter-Disciplinary Press, forthcoming.

“Assessing Assessment: Toward a Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Perspective.” InSight: A Scholarly Journal of Teaching 4 (2009): 56-68.

Review of David Reisman’s Sartre’s Phenomenology, Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques XXIX, no.3 (June 2009): 216-218.

“H φιλοσοφία της αγάπης στους Σπινόζα, Κίρκεγκωρ και Σέλερ” [“The Philosophy of Love in Spinoza, Kierkegaard and Scheler”]. Translated by Michalis Katsimitsis. Celestia 2 (April 2009): 19-28. (A Greek Journal of Philosophy.)

“Assessment and Experience.” Faculty Focus 8.1 (March 2009): 4-5. (A publication of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at UCF.)

“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

“Applying Creativity to Research in Ethics,” 2^nd Annual Florida Statewide Symposium: Engagement in Undergraduate Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, September 25, 2009.

“Slaughtering Spinoza’s Speciesism with the Help of Derrida.” Towards a Philosophy of Life: An International Conference in Continental Philosophy of Religion, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, June 27, 2009.

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