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Dr. Seamus Carey

Dr. Seamus Carey

Dr. Seamus Carey

Chairperson

Professor of Philosophy

 

Education:

  • B.A., Vassar College
  • M.A., Fordham University
  • Ph.D., Fordham University

Research and Scholarly Interests:

20th Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Environmental Philosophy.

Publications/Papers:

Publications:

Growing Up With Your Children: 7 Turning Points in the Lives of Parents (Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield 2010).

“Family as Framework: Rudiments of an Approach to Philosophical Counseling” Philosophical Practice (3:2).

The Faithful Parent: Discovering the Spirit or Purposeful Parenting (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

“The Role of Philosophical Faith in Parenting” Philosophical Practice (January, 2007).

“Transformations: Thinking After Heidegger” Review.  Environmental Ethics 2007.

"Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy" Review.  Environmental Ethics (2006).

"Parenting and the Retrieval of Intuition," The Journal for Practical Philosophy, 7:2, (2005).

"Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself" Review.  Ethics 26:3 (2004).

The Whole Child:  Restoring Wonder to the Art of Parenting, Rowman and Littlefield, July 2003.

“Wonder and the Art of Parenting” Cover Article, Vassar Quarterly, (invited excerpt for The Whole Child)

“An Ethics of Place”, Mick Smith, Environmental Ethics, (25:4) (July 2003).

“A Spiritual of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth” Review Environmental Ethics, (July 2002).

Heidegger's Polemos:  From Being to Politics, Gregory Fried, International Philosophical Quarterly Vol. XLI, No. 4 (December 2002).

A New Vision for Justice, Social Theory & Practice, Vol. 27, No. 3 (July 2001).

Cultivating Ethics Through the Body, Human Studies 23: 23-42 (2000).

Embodying Original Ethics:  A Response to Levinas and Caputo, Philosophy Today (1997)

A Development of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty towards a Holistic Conception of Health, Conference, Vol. 5, No.1 (Spring 1994).

 

Courses Taught/Teaching:

  • Ethics
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Philosophy of Knowledge
  • Philosophy of Human Nature
  • Logic
  • Existentialism
  • Search for Wisdom
  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • 20th Century Philosophy
  • Applied Philosophy
  • Problems of Philosophy
  • Roots of Modern Age:  Philosophy
  • Medical Ethics
  • Engineering Ethics
  • Business Ethics

Contact Information:

 

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