Rex Gilliland

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Southern Connecticut State University

Office: Engleman D210

Office Phone: (203) 392-6783

Cell Phone: (203) 430-8228

Fax: (203) 392-6779

Email: gillilandr1@southernct.edu

Mailing address: Rex Gilliland

Department of Philosophy

Southern Connecticut State University

501 Crescent St.

New Haven, CT 06515

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Memphis, December 2000

Dissertation: “Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom: His Confrontation with the Ethics of Kant and Schelling”

Advisor: Robert Bernasconi

M.A. in Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach, 1993

Thesis: “Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on Language and Style”

Advisor: Steven Davis

B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, California State University, Long Beach, 1991

A.A. in Liberal Arts (concentration in Music), High Honors, Long Beach City College, 1989

Areas of Specialization: 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Ethics

Areas of Competence: Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Race Theory, Aesthetics, Social and Political, Introductory Logic and Critical Thinking

Curriculum Vitae

Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Description of Teaching and Research Interests

Summary of Dissertation

Spring 2008 Courses

19^th Century Philosophy

Logic

Fall 2007 Courses

Phenomenology and Existentialism

Logic

Spring 2007 Courses

Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Logic

Fall 2006 Courses

Early Modern Philosophy

Logic

Spring 2006 Courses

19^th Century Philosophy

Race and Ethnicity in the 20^th Century (Honors)

Logic

Fall 2005 Courses

Phenomenology and Existentialism

Philosophy of Education

Logic (LINKS – first-year students)

Spring 2005 Courses

Derrida and Contemporary French Philosophy

Logic

Fall 2004 Courses

Problems in Philosophy: Community and Group Identities

Introduction to Philosophy (LINKS – first-year students)

Ethics

Spring 2004 Courses

Introduction to Philosophy (Section 5, Section 6)

Logic (Section 2, Section 3)

Fall 2003 Courses

Problems in Philosophy: Technology, the Self, God, and Nature (Section 1, Section 2)

Ethics (Section 4, Section 7)

Spring 2003 Courses

Social and Political Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy (with Sam Levey)

Winter 2003 Courses

Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Thought of the Outside

Introduction to Moral Theory (with Susan Brison)

Fall 2002 Course

Introduction to Philosophy (with Julia Driver)

Spring 2002 Courses

What Becomes of the Human After Humanism? Heidegger and the French Philosophy of Difference

Ethical Choice

Business Ethics

January 2002 Interim Course

Understanding Cultural Difference: What is Unique about the South?

Fall 2001 Courses

Contemporary Philosophy – The Specter of Relativism: Objectivity and the Possibility of Knowledge

History of Western Philosophy I – Ancient Greek Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy

Other Syllabi and Course Descriptions

Introduction to Heidegger

Ethical Theory

Plato and Aristotle

Early Modern Philosophy

19^th Century Continental Philosophy

The Relation of the Practical and Theoretical in Eastern and Western Philosophy

Writing Samples

“The Destiny of Technology: Modern Science and Human Freedom in the Later Heidegger” (In Heidegger Studies vol. 18 [2002], 115-128)

“Kant’s Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason and the Problem of a Unitary System of Philosophy” (In Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des 9. Internationalen Kant-Kongress [Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002], 29-38)

Aristotle, Moral Particularism, and the Indeterminacy of Principles

What Becomes of the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and Derrida