William P.
Kiblinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
803-323-4598
My
Educational Background
Ph.D. Philosophy
of Religion.
2004. University of Chicago.
Dissertation: Hegelian Complexity:
Understanding the
Organism
M.A. Religious
Studies.
1998. University of
Chicago.
B.A.
Religion & Mathematics. 1992. Williams
College.
My Areas
of Academic Interest
I am interested in philosophical
issues related to the intersection of religion and
science. My philosophical grounding is in the German
idealist tradition, especially Kant
and Hegel.
I have presented or published
papers
on
- Kant's
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
- Plato's
Apology
- Giorgio Agamben and political
theology
- Heidegger and biotechnology
- Kant's theory of teleology
- Hegel and emergence theory
- The history of the concept of
culture
- Pragmatism and Stuart Kauffman's
biological investigations
- Hegel's
theory of freedom
Courses I
Teach at Winthrop
- PHIL 201
Basic
Issues in Philosophy
- PHIL 301/302
History of Philosophy: Ancient/Modern
- PHIL 303
Existentialism
- PHIL/RELG 390
Philosophy of Religion
- RELG 201
Introduction to Religious Studies
- PHIL 350
Hegel
and Postmodernism
- RELG 350
Modern Christian Thought
- RELG 360
Psychology of Religion
-
HMXP
102
The Human Experience
- RELG 495
Methods and Research Seminar
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