Jack Simmons
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Professor, Philosophy Armstrong Campus Ph.D., Tulane University |
TEACHING INTERESTS |
Postmodernism, Philosophy of Film, 20th Century Philosophy and Medieval Philosophy |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
Philosophy of Film/TV/Visual Media & Information Science and Media Ethics |
RECENT COURSES |
PHIL 2010: Introduction to Philosophy PHIL 2030: Introduction to Ethics and Moral Issues PHIL 3140: Kant and the 19th Century PHIL 3150: Twentieth Century Philosophy PHIL 3310: Philosophy of Film PHIL 3320: Postmodernism PHIL 3340: Symbolic Logic |
RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
“The Afterbirth of the Clinic: A Foucauldian Perspective on ‘House M.D.’and American Medicine in the 21st Century,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51:2, (Spring, 2008). Co-authored with Leigh Rich, David Adams, Michael Mink, and Scott Thorpe. “Why Greeks Tolerate Violent Student Protest,” International Journal of Decision Ethics: on Global Conflicts, Higher Education, Business and Economics, Oxford University, Global Scholarly Publications, Volume III:I (Fall, 2006). “What is a Liberal Education?” Immortal Longings 8 (2003). “Educational Technology and Academic Freedom,” Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, 5:3 (Spring 2001), http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/ “The Future of Academic Freedom: Educational Technology and Academic Freedom,” Distance Education Online Symposium News, 10:3, (2000). “Distance Learning: Education or Economics,” The International Journal of Value-Based Management, 14, 2001. Rpt. New Wine in Old Bottles: Business Education and Training, a Value-Laden Process, 7 (2000). “Truth and Method (Gadamer, Hans-Georg),” World Philosophy, Rev. Ed., Salem Press (2000). Three Dashes Bitters, a novel (2017). “The Continental Perspective on Death”. Published in: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life, (2017). “Hannibal and the Horrors of Hyper-Rationality”. Co-author Leigh Rich. Published in: Film and Philosophy, Vol. 20, (2016). “Universal Principles of Evolution”. Co-authors Joung Vo and Dr. Gene Mesco. Published in: World Futures, Volume 70, Issue 7, (2014). |
Last updated: 11/12/2020