Steven G. Smith |
smithsg@millsaps.edu | 601-974-1334 | Box 150390, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 39210 | Fax 601-974-1324
Office hours Spring 2009 to be announced
RECENT AND CURRENT CLASSES TAUGHT and their syllabi
GREAT READING suggestions in various categories
Extracts from Gender Thinking on THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN NATURE and THE CONCEPT OF RACE
Chapters of Appeal and Attitude on THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SUPREME APPEAL and THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SOVEREIGN ATTITUDE
THE MUSIC SIDE --information on the Assemblers, Woodpecker Street, and Real Life, the Idea, and listening suggestions
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
Selected Publications
BOOKS
The Argument to the Other. Reason Beyond Reason in the Thought of Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas (Scholars Press, 1983)
The Concept of the Spiritual. An Essay in First Philosophy (Temple University Press, 1988)
Gender Thinking (Temple University Press, 1992)
Worth Doing (State University of New York Press, 2004)
Appeal and Attitude. Prospects for Ultimate Meaning (Indiana University Press, 2005)
SOME RECENT ARTICLES
"Abraham's Family in Children of Gebelaawi [by Naguib Mahfouz]." Literature and Theology, 11 (June 1997), 168-184.
"Comment on Hawkesworth's 'Confounding Gender'." Signs, 22 (Spring 1997), 691-697--reprinted in Provoking Feminisms, ed. Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
"Kinds of Best World." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 44 (December 1998), 145-162.
"Three Religious Attitudes." Philosophy and Theology, 11 (1998), 3-24.
"Deep Jokes: Reflections on Ultimate Explanation in Metaphysics and Myth." Soundings, 83 (Spring 2000), 21-38.
"Worthy Actions." Journal of Ethics, 5 (2001), 315-333.
"The Worth of Owning." Public Affairs Quarterly, 16 (April 2002), 155-172.
"'The Gates of Greatness Break Open': Religious Understandings of Worth in Action." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 70 (June 2002), 301-321.
"The Mind-Matter Reversals: Bergson's Conception of Mental and Material Actuality." Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40 (2002), 295-314.
"The Religious Appeals of Transworth and Transtrying." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 55 (2004), 109-125.
"What Is Scripture? Pursuing Smith's Question." Anglican Theological Review, 90 (Fall 2008), 753-775.
"Historical Meaningfulness in Shared Action." Forthcoming in History and Theory (February 2009).
Personal Interests
Music, literature, film
Softball, basketball
