William P. Kiblinger
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Kinard Hall 326
803-323-4598
kiblingerw@winthrop.edu
Recent
Scholarly Work:
Delivered a paper - "Abstraction and
Hypochondria: Reflections on Kant's Dreams of a
Spirit-Seer" - at
the 35th Annual Conference of the Southeastern American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 5-7 March 2009, in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Currently reviewing Nietzsche's
Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young for the Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
Delivered a paper
- "To Explain or Not to
Explain: Voltaire, Leibniz, and Kant on the Problem of Evil"
- at the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 37th
Annual Conference, 3-5th January 2008 at St Hugh's College,
Oxford.
Review of Science of
God: Truth in the Age of Science by Kevin Sharpe for
The Journal of Religion (forthcoming).
Delivered a paper - "Freedom from
Libet's Impossible Demand: The Compatibilism of Dennett
and Hegel" - for the South Carolina Society for
Philosophy Meeting, February, 2007.
Published
"Evolution and Subjectivity" in Zygon: Journal of
Religion and Science (March 2007).
Published "Understanding the
Athenian Fear of Socrates:
A
Reading of Plato’s Apology of Socrates" in
The
Richmond Journal of Philosophy (June 2006).
Delivered a paper - "Evolution and Subjectivity:
Peircian Suggestions and Hegelian Reminders" for a panel
on
Peirce, Hegel, and Stuart Kauffman's Complexity Theory
- for the
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought
Group at AAR Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November, 2005.
Delivered a
paper -
"Protest in the State of Exception: Some Thoughts on the
Biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben" - at the
Eastern International Regional Meeting of the AAR at
McGill University, Montreal - May 6-7, 2005.
Delivered a paper - "Emergence out
of the Loop: Heidegger and the Hand" - at the Eastern
International Regional Meeting of the AAR at Cornell
University - May, 2004.
Review of
Peter C. Hodgson, Hegel
and Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the
Philosophy of Religion,
forthcoming in the Scottish Journal of Theology.
Review of Philip Clayton, Mind
and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness in The Journal of Religion
(April 2007).
Review of Charles Taliaferro, Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the
Seventeenth Century in The Journal
of Religion (April 2007).
Earlier
Work:
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“Complexity and Novelty:
Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science,” Henry Luce
Fellowship panel presentation, University of
Chicago—2002
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“Explaining the Organism
and Organic Explanations,” Henry Luce fellowship
presentation, University of Chicago—2002
-
“History of the Concept
of Culture,” presentation delivered at Thiel
College—2002
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“Naturalized Mindedness
and the Achievement of Spirit,” Martin Marty Center
presentation, University of Chicago—2001
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Review of
Radical Interpretation in Religion, ed. Nancy K.
Frankenberry in The Journal of Religion—2004
- Review of
The
Taboo of Subjectivity by B.
Alan Wallace in The Journal of Religion—2003
Spring 2010
Office
Hours:
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Walk-in hours: W 1:00-4:00;
F 1:00-2:00
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I'm happy to offer other times by appointment --
email or call
me.
Classes offered in Spring 2010
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