John Rudisill
Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Pre Law Advising
Phone: 330-263-2353
Office: Scovel 002
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Degrees
- B.A., Coe 1991
- Ph.D., Iowa 2001
Areas of Interest
Rudisill specializes in social and political philosophy and theoretical ethics. Additional teaching interests include the philosophy of race and gender, philosophy and literature, and the history of modern philosophy. His current research focuses on the problem of political legitimacy and justification in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world and a critical analysis of various alternatives to liberalism.
Courses Taught
- Political Philosophy
- Ethical Theory
- Junior Independent Study Seminar
- Existentialism
- Art, Love and Beauty
- Ethics, Justice and Society
Publications
- “”听Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 37, 2012, pp. 243-248.
- “”听Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 37, 2012, pp. 221-232.
- “听.”听Teaching Philosophy, Volume 34, No. 3, September 2011. Winner of the 2012听.听Reprinted together with commentaries (by Wendy Turgeon, Christopher Mayer, and M.J. Mulnix and Jennifer Wilson Mulnix) and my “Reply to Turgeon, Mayer, and Mulnix and Mulnix” in听Philosophy Through Teaching, ed. Emily Esch, Kevin Hermberg, and Rory E. Kraft, Jr. (Charlotsville, VA. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2014).
- “.”听Discusiones Filos贸ficas, Volume 11, No. 17, July-December 2010.
- “Review of John Christman鈥檚听Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction.” Teaching Philosophy,听volume 27, number 2, June 2004.
- 听Essays in Philosophy,听Volume 5, number 1, January 2004.
- “”听Janus Head,听5.1 Spring 2002.
- 听Auslegung, Volume 23, No. 2. Spring/Summer 2000. 听
- “Culture as Cure鈥ometimes Worse than the Disease: A Review of Geoffrey Hartman鈥檚听The Fateful Question of Culture.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies,听Volume 18, April 1999.