Steven G. Smith |
smithsg@millsaps.edu | 601-974-1334 | Box 150390, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 39210 | Fax 601-974-1324
On leave for academic year 2011-12
RECENT AND CURRENT CLASSES TAUGHT and their syllabi
THE MUSIC SIDE: information on original music for theater, film and dance; the small college musical Real Life, the Idea; the pop projects Woodpecker Street and The Assemblers; and improv with The Ruminants
HOOKS: a site for closer looks at great things in rock music. See also The Millsaps Hooks Project
GREAT READING suggestions in various categories; GREAT VIEWING and GREAT LISTENING suggestions too
Chapters of Appeal and Attitude on THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SUPREME APPEAL and THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SOVEREIGN ATTITUDE
Extracts from Gender Thinking on THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN NATURE and THE CONCEPT OF RACE
THE SYNTHESIS OF EXPERIENCE IN FILM: SOME GOOD QUESTIONS AND EXAMPLES IN A PHILOSOPHY OF FILM COURSE
Academic Background
Florida State University, B.A. (Religion) 1972
Vanderbilt University, M.A. (Religion: Religious & philosophical ethics) 1978
Duke University, Ph.D. (Religion: Systematic & contemporary studies) 1980
Research Interests
Philosophy of religion, philosophical anthropology, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of history, metaphysics
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Appeal and Attitude. Prospects for Ultimate Meaning (Indiana University Press, 2005)
Worth Doing (State University of New York Press, 2004)
Gender Thinking (Temple University Press, 1992)
The Concept of the Spiritual. An Essay in First Philosophy (Temple University Press, 1988)
The Argument to the Other. Reason Beyond Reason in the Thought of Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas (Scholars Press, 1983)
SOME RECENT ARTICLES“The Roar of the Lion, the Taste of the Salt: On Really Religious Reasons.” Religious Studies, © 2012 Cambridge University Press.
“Staging Shared Action: The Museum as Historical Mobilizer.”International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 3/3 (2011), 27-38.
“Intrinsic Value, Goodness, and the Appeals of Things.” International Philosophical Quarterly, 50 (June 2010), 167-181.
“Hume, Kant, and Road Runner on Causation.” Film and Philosophy, 14 (2010), 63-70.
“The Structure of Unlimited Action Sharing.” Philosophical Frontiers, 4 (July-December 2009), 57-71.“Hooks.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 67 (Summer 2009), 311-319.
“The Work of Service: Levinas’s Eventual Philosophy of Culture.” Jeffrey Bloechl, ed., Levinas Studies, Vol. 4 (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009)
“Historical Meaningfulness in Shared Action.” History and Theory, 48 (February 2009), 1-19.
“What Is Scripture? Pursuing Smith’s Question.” Anglican Theological Review, 90 (Fall 2008), 753-775.
Personal Interests
Music, literature, film
Softball, basketball, kayaking
