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William P. Kiblinger, Ph.D.
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My Educational Background

Ph.D. Philosophy of Religion. 2004. University of Chicago.
Thesis: Hegelian Complexity:
Understanding the Organism

M.A. Religious Studies. 1998. University of Chicago.

B.A. 1992. Religion & Mathematics. 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…

  • 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

  1. PHIL 201 – Basic Issues in Philosophy
  2. PHIL 301/302 – History of Philosophy: Ancient/Modern
  3. PHIL 303 – Existentialism
  4. PHIL 390 – Philosophy of Religion
  5. RELG 201 – Introduction to Religious Studies
  6. RELG 360 – Psychology of Religion
  7. HMXP 102 – The Human Experience
 
 

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