Curriculum Vitae
Rex Gilliland
Areas of Specialization
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Kant and German Idealism
Ethics
Areas of Competence
Ancient Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Race Theory
Social and Political
Aesthetics
Introductory Logic and Critical Thinking
Education
1995
- 2000 University of
Ph.D. in Philosophy (December 2000)
Dissertation: “Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom: His Confrontation with the Ethics of Kant and Schelling”
(Advisor: Robert Bernasconi)
Spring 1995 Ludwig
Maximillian Universität,
1991-1993 California
State University,
M.A. in Philosophy
Thesis: “Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on Language and Style”
1989-1991 California
State University,
B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude
1985-1989 Long Beach City College
A.A.
in Liberal Arts (concentration in Music), High Honors
Publications
“The Destiny of
Technology: Modern Science and Human Freedom in the Later Heidegger,” Heidegger
Studies vol. 18 (2002), 115-128.
“Kant’s
Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason and the Problem of a System of
Metaphysics,” in Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des 9. Internationalen
Kant-Kongress (
Under Review
“Determinacy and the Dice Throw: The Accidental in Derrida
and Deleuze”
“What Becomes of
the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and Derrida”
Work in Progress
“Aristotle, Moral Particularism, and the Indeterminacy of Principles”
“Freedom and the Bind: The Place of the Human
in Heidegger’s Thought” (Book-length project)
“Intuition and Concept in Continental Philosophy” (Book-length project)
“The Specter of Relativism: Objectivity and the Possibility of Knowledge”
“Merely Accidental? Reflections on Group Identity and
Individual Difference”
Papers Presented and Conferences Attended
“The Element of
Surprise,” Alumni Conference,
“Determinacy and
the Dice Throw: The Accidental in Derrida and Deleuze,”
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
Collegium Phaenomenologicum,
Topic: “Thinking Through the Difference between Immanence
and Transcendence: Levinas, Bergson,
and Deleuze,”
“Intuition and
Deliberative Judgment,” Southern
“The Singularity
of Being,” invited paper,
“What Becomes of
the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and Derrida,” North American Heidegger
Conference,
“Dasein,
Being with Others, and the Origins of Ethical Responsibility,” American
Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting,
“The Specter
of Relativism: Objectivity and the Humanities,”
“The Destiny of
Technology: Modern Science and Human Freedom in the Later Heidegger,” North
American Heidegger Conference,
“Can an Ethics
without Rules Avoid Relativism?”
“Who Decides History?
Human Being and Historical Decision in the Beiträge,”
Interpreting the Beiträge – 21st
Annual Martin Heidegger Symposium,
“Between
Arbitrariness and Simply Following Rules: Heidegger on Freedom, Causality, and
Ethics,”
“Aristotle, Moral
Particularism, and the Indeterminacy of Principles,”
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting,
“Heidegger’s
Concept of Freedom and the Possibility of a Heideggerian
Ethics,”
“Kant’s Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason and the
Problem of a System of Metaphysics,” Ninth International Kant Congress,
“Universality and
Particularity in Ethics: Aristotle, Moral Particularism,
and the Indeterminacy of Moral Rules,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
Commentator for
Don Kelly Coble’s “Heidegger on Kant’s Practical Philosophy: A Critique of
Kant’s Critic,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
“What is Kant’s
Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason?” Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology,
“Kant on the
Relation of Practical and Theoretical Philosophy,” Mid-South Philosophy
Conference,
Commentator for Hilary Thalman-Martinez’s
“Re-Assessing ‘Subjectivization’ in Kant’s Theory of
the Sublime,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
“Kant on the
Unity of Reason,”
Commentator for Marie de Lourdes Borge’s
“Hegel and Kant on the Ontological Argument,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
Collegium Phaenomenologicum,
Topic: “Heidegger and the Greeks,”
Teaching Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
Ethics (two sections Fall 2003)
Problems in Philosophy (two sections Fall 2003)
Logic (two sections Spring 2004)
Introduction to Philosophy (two sections Spring 2004)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Thought of the Outside (Winter 2003)
Social and Political Philosophy (Spring 2003)
Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
Introduction to Moral Theory (Winter 2003)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
What Becomes of the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and the French Philosophy of Difference (Spring 2002)
Ethical Choice (Spring 2002)
Ethical Issues in Business (Spring 2002)
Cultural Differences: Can We Make Sense of Particularity? (January Interim 2002)
The Specter of Relativism: Objectivity and the Possibility of Knowledge (Fall 2001)
History of Western Philosophy I – Ancient Greek (Fall 2001)
Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2001)
Visiting Assistant Professor in
Introduction to Philosophy (two sections Fall 2000, two sections Spring 2001)
Introduction to Ethics (two sections Fall 2000)
Critical Thinking (two sections Spring 2001)
Teaching
Assistant in Philosophy,
Elementary Logic (Fall 1996, Summer 1998, Spring 2000)
Classical Issues in Philosophy (Spring, Summer, Fall 1997, two sections Fall 1999)
Values in the Modern World (Spring and Fall 1998, Spring and Summer 1999)
Contemporary Moral Problems (Summer 1999)
Adjunct
Instructor in Philosophy,
Business Ethics (Fall 1998)
Substitute
Teacher for High School and Middle School, all subjects,
Academic Honors and Awards
Spindell Dissertation Fellow,
Graduate Travel Stipend Award for Philosophy, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 1999
Editorial Experience
Graduate Assistant,
Graduate
Assistant, University of Memphis, Eighth International Kant Congress, Fall 1996
(Duties: Editorial Assistant, Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant
Congress, vol. 1, parts 1-3 [Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995])
University Service
University Honors Committee Thesis Reader, Southern Connecticut State University, 2003-2004
Master’s Thesis
Committee Member, Electro-Acoustic Music Program,
Senior Thesis Director, Department of Philosophy, Birmingham-Southern College, 2001-2002
Senior Thesis Committee Member, Department of Philosophy, Birmingham-Southern College, 2001-2002
Travel Resources Committee Member,
Organizer of the
Research in Progress Speakers Forum, Department of Philosophy, University of
Memphis, 1999-2000
Student Representative, Hiring Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, 1997-1998
Languages
German (near fluency), French (reading), Greek (reading), Latin (reading), Spanish (reading, some spoken)
Graduate Courses
Democracy and Difference F ‘99 (Audit) Tina Chanter
Colloquium - Kant’s Post-Critical Essays, Tom Nenon
Sp ‘99 (Audit)
Plato’s Sophist, F ‘98 (Audit) John Ellis
Race Theory Colloquium, Sp ‘98 Robert Bernasconi and Jackie Scott
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Sp ‘98 (Audit) Hoke Robinson
Kant’s Ethics, F ‘97 Mark Timmons
Schelling Colloquium, F ‘97 Tom Nenon
Sartre, F ‘97 (Audit) Robert Bernasconi
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, F ‘97 (Audit) Hoke Robinson
Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy, F ‘97 (Audit) Tim Roche
Heidegger Colloquium (untranslated Robert Bernasconi
lecture courses), Sp ‘97
Derrida, Sp ‘97 Len Lawlor
Metaphysics: Truth and Ontology, Sp ‘97 (Audit) Terry Horgan
Empiricism and Rationalism in Ethics, F ‘96 Mark Timmons
Aristotle’s Metaphysics, F ‘96 John Ellis
Husserl, F ‘96 Len Lawlor
Feminist Epistemology, Sp ‘96 Tina Chanter
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Sp ‘96 Robert Bernasconi
Philosophy of Mind, Sp ‘96 Terry Horgan
Plato’s Erotic Dialogues, Sp ‘96 (Audit) John Ellis
Levinas, F ‘95 Tina Chanter
Heidegger Colloquium, (untranslated Robert Bernasconi
lecture courses), F ‘95
Plato’s Theaetetus, F ‘95 Tim Roche
Philosophy of Religion Seminar, Sp ‘92 Daniel Guerrière
Heidegger (later essays), Directed Study, Sp ‘92 Steven Davis
Contemporary French Philosophy, Sp ‘92 Steven Davis
Artistotle, Sp ‘92 (Audit) Al Spangler
Aesthetics Seminar, F ‘91 Julie Van Camp
Schopenhauer, Directed Study, F ‘91 Malek Khazaee
19th Century German Philosphy, F ‘91 Steven Davis
Existentialism, F ‘91 (Audit) Steven Davis
Graduate GPA: 4.0
References
Robert Bernasconi Julia L. Driver
Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy
(901) 678-3357
rbernscn@memphis.edu (603) 646-9389
John Ellis
Department of Philosophy Terry Horgan
(901) 678-4248
jellis@memphis.edu (901) 678-4689
Len Lawlor
Department of Philosophy Bill Myers
(901) 678-2553 Box 549013
lrlawlor@memphis.edu
(205) 226-4868
Tom Nenon bmyers@bsc.edu
Department of Philosophy
(901) 678-2156
tnenon@memphis.edu
Mark Timmons (330) 672-2315
Department of Philosophy gormisto@kent.edu
(901) 678-3352