Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Explores themes of dispossession, shattering, and fragmentation that arise in contemporary writings from the point of view of the selves whose subjectivities and practices are said to be fragmented, shattered, and dispossessed.

A futuristic examination of metaphysical systems, responsibility, understanding, conceit, continuums, and history’s vector.

Analyzes major Muslim philosophers.

Explores the work of Bernard Lonergan in light of contemporary continental thought.

Reads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy.

Examines whether race-based programs and slavery reparations are justified.

Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.

Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.

Chinese and Western thinkers consider the Chinese philosophical tradition and Chinese philosophy for the contemporary global era.

Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem "moral" to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.

Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.

Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair, but can be responded to positively.

Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.

An introduction to the thought of three major philosophers of twentieth-century Spain.

Essays on the interaction between science and spiritual values which characterize much of modern life.

Argues that the experience of modernity is fundamentally spatial rather than subjective.

Examines issues in legal and democratic theory found in the work of Jürgen Habermas.

Rethinks the existing definitions of aesthetics and ethics and the relations between them.

Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers.

Essays on images and representation in the writings of Philo of Alexandria.

Select essays, originally presented at the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, held in 2001 at SUNY Oneonta.

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.