PROFESSOR SHARON M. KAYE
Department
of Philosophy Phone: (216)
397-4769
John
Carroll University Fax:
(216) 397-1738
20700
North Park Boulevard Email:
skaye@jcu.edu
Born:
Education:
Ph.D. Philosophy:
Dissertation: William of Ockham’s
Theory of Conscience
Supervisors: Calvin Normore and
Bernard Katz
M.A.
Philosophy:
B.A. Philosophy:
Graduated with Distinction
Diploma in Massage Therapy:
Graduated
with Honors
Licensed by the Ohio State Medical Board to practice
Massage Therapy, 2008
Publications:
Books
Black Market
Truth, Book One of The Aristotle Quest: A Dana McCarter Trilogy
(Parmenides Publishing, 2008)
Medieval Philosophy (Oneworld Press, 2008)
Lost and
Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007)
Available
in Turkish and Portuguese
Philosophy
for Teens, with co-author Paul
Thomson
(Prufrock Press, 2006)
Available in Korean
More Philosophy for Teens, with co-author Paul
Thomson (Prufrock Press, 2007)
On Ockham,
with co-author Robert Martin (
On Augustine,
with co-author Paul Thomson (
Available in Slovak
Popular
Articles
“Why
Publish?” Academe 94:3 (May-June
2008): pp. 33-4.
“Quantum Physics and Ockham’s Eraser,” Science and Spirit 18:5 (November/December,
2007): 46-47.
“L.O.S.T. in Lost,” Lost and Philosophy, edited by Sharon M. Kaye (Blackwell, 2007):
1-5.
“It’s So Bad It’s Sick: Why Philosophy is for Teens,” Insights 17:1 (Fall 2007): 1-2.
“Mmmyez:
Stewie and the Seven Deadly Sins,” Family
Guy and Philosophy, edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Blackwell, 2007): 74-86.
“The Running Life:
Getting In Touch With Your Inner Hunter Gatherer,” Running and Philosophy, edited by Michael Austin (Blackwell, 2007):
161-170.
“Cosmic Sledding,” with co-author Robert Prisco, under
the pseudonym D.W. Ireland, The Dalhousie
Review 86:3 (Autumn 2006): 389-396.
“Dress Rehearsal For Life: Teaching Philosophy to High School Students” Analytic Teaching 26:1 (Spring 2006):
1-9.
“In the End it’s the Tail: Thomas Aquinas’s Fifth
Proof of the Existence of God,” with co-author Robert Prisco, Think (Summer 2005): 67-74.
“Could the
Universe be Infinitely Old? Thomas
Aquinas’
“Lassoing the Wind: Can the Doctrine of Analogy do the
Trick?” with co-author Nelson Foster, Dialogue
22 (2004): 3-6.
“Ockham’s Razor,” Think
4 (Summer 2003): 91-95.
“Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer’s Solution to Aristotle’s
Love Paradox,” with co-author Melissa Milavec in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and Philosophy, edited by James B. South (
“Is God the Source of Morality?” with co-author Harry
Gensler in God Matters, edited by Ray Martin and Christopher Bernard (
Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Articles
“William of Ockham” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007, http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ockham.htm.
“The Virtue of Playing Along,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 14:1 (Spring 2007): 1-10.
“Was There No
Concept of Evolution in the Middle Ages?:
The Case of William of Ockham,” British
Journal for the History of Philosophy, 14:2 (Spring 2006): 225-244.
“True Friendship and the Logic of Lying,” Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (2005):
475-485.
“Where Is the Antichrist? A Review
Article of Behold the Antichrist, by
“Personhood and Free Will,” The Philosopher 92:2 (Autumn 2004): 11-13.
“Free Will and Ockham’s Razor: A Revival of the
Argument from Introspection,” Personhood,
ed. Heikki Ikäheimo et al., University of
Jyväskylä Publications in Philosophy 68 (2004): 99-105.
“Why the Liberty of Indifference is Worth Wanting:
Buridan’s Ass, Friendship, and Peter John Olivi,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 21:1 (January, 2004): 21-42.
“Saying ‘No’ to God: The Emergence of Metaphysical
Freedom,” Dalhousie Review 82:1 (Spring 2002): 153-170.
“Some Philosophical Reflections on the Coming of the
Antichrist,” Sophia 39 (Oct/Nov 2000): 79-103.
“Realism, Conventionalism, and William of Ockham,”
Proceedings of the World Congress in Philosophy II (August 1999): 207-216.
“Later Medieval Nominalism and the Politics of
Supposition,” Eidos XIV (January 1999): 29-50.
“There’s No Such Thing as Heresy and It’s a Good
Thing, Too: William of Ockham on Freedom of Speech,” Journal of Political
Philosophy (March 1998): 41‑52.
“Against a Straussian Interpretation of Marsilius of
Padua’s Poverty Thesis,” History of Philosophy Quarterly (July 1994):
269‑280.
Current Projects:
“Evolution and Existentialism,” paper for a symposium in honor of the 200th Birthday
of Charles Darwin and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of "Origins
of Species" at San Diego State University 20-22 November 2009
“Using Second Life to Teach Social Justice”
paper for the national Jesuit Justice Conference at Fairfield University June
8-21, 2009
The
Onion and Philosophy, editor, (Opencourt
Press, forthcoming 2009)
Critical
Thinking (Oneworld Press, forthcoming
2009)
<Title Withheld> Book Two, The Aristotle Quest: A Dana McCarter
Trilogy (Parmenides Publishing, forthcoming 2009)
“Lust, Sport, and the Will to Win” (under
review with the Journal of Sexuality and
Culture)
Touch
and Transcendence: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Massage
Therapy on Attitudes toward Spirituality (under review with the Center for
Theology and Science)
“Political Pessimism in Christian
Thought” (part of a project under review for an NEH grant)
Book Reviews
Waiting for Antichrist, by Damian Thompson, Sophia 46 (2007): 93-94.
Passions in
William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology, by Vesa Hirvonen, Journal of the
History of Philosophy 45:2 (2007): 330-332.
Expecting
Armageddon, edited by Jon R. Stone, Sophia 43:1 (May-June, 2004): 56-8.
Paulus
Venetus Logica Parva, edited by Alan
R. Perreiah, in History and Philosophy of
Logic 23 (2002): 304-306.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, edited by Eleonore Stump, in Philosophical Books 43:4
(2002): 300-301.
Philosophical
Cartoons
“Last Words Cartoon” in The Philosophers’ Magazine 28 (2004): 95.
“The Modern-Day
Buridan’s Ass” and “Descartes’ Matrix” in The
Philosophers’ Magazine 25 (2004): 23, and 50.
Grants, Awards, and Honors:
American Philosophical Association Award for
Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, 2006
YWCA of
Bellefaire JCB Biathlon Winner, 2005
Bellefaire JCB Biathlon Winner, 2003
Phi Beta
Kappa Key, 1992-present
Phi Kappa
Phi Honor Society, 1990-present
University Courses Taught:
Philosophy of Beauty and Art, Two-Thirds On-Line
Introduction to Philosophy On-Line
First Year Seminar – Social Justice in Second Life:
Building a Utopia
Analytic Philosophy
First Year Seminar – The Body in Art, Science, and
Literature
Philosophy
of Education – Diversity
First Year
Seminar – Science, Democracy, and Capitalism
Philosophy
of Friendship
Topics in
Metaphysics Seminar
First Year
Seminar – Frontiers and Borders
Writing
Intensive Philosophy of Education
Philosophy
of Education
Writing
Intensive Medieval Philosophy
Medieval
Philosophy
Introduction
to Philosophy
Philosophy
of Religion
Formal
Logic Tutorial Leader