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Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Associate Professor, Philosophy (http://news-info.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/42.html)
Expertise: Derrida, environmental ethics, Existentialism, fishing, hunting, Husserl, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, philosophy, Wilfrid Sellars
Bio:
Evans is currently working in the field of environmental ethics. He recently completed a book called Life Lives From Life: The Environmental Ethics of Participation in Nature. The book challenges ethical positions that tend to remove humans from interaction with natural processes. It specifically deals with the ethics of hunting and the ethics of catch and release fishing.
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook
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M.A. in Philosophy at New School for Social Research
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B.A. in Philosophy at University of Texas
Additional Background: Evans is the author of The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity: Descartes, Kant and W. Sellars and of Strategies of Deconstruction: Derrida and the Myth of the Voice. He participated in "A Forum on Strategies of Deconstruction," for Philosophy Today in 1998. He teaches and writes in the areas of 20th Century continental philosophy, 19th Century philosophy, and environmental ethics. He recently finished a book titled Life Lives from Life: Living as a Part of Nature, a critique of contemporary biocentric egalitarian thought using hunting as the test case.
Areas of Specialization: Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Hunting and Fishing; Existentialism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche; 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Husserl, Derrida; Kant, History of Modern Philosophy; Wilfrid Sellars
Areas of Competence: History of Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature
Languages: Fluent German
Academic Positions
1991-Present - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis MO 63130
1984-1991 - Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis MO, USA
1982-1984 - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, West Germany
1978-1982 - Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1976-1978 - Graduate Assistant, SUNY Stony Brook
1973-1976 - Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1972-1973 - Graduate Assistant, SUNY Stony Brook
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