REX GILLILAND, Department of Philosophy

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

“Kant’s Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason and the Problem of a System of Metaphysics,” in Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Ralph Schumacher, eds., Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des 9. Internationalen Kant-Kongress (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002), 29-38.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

“What Becomes of the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and Derrida,” Proceedings of the North American Heidegger Conference, May 2002.

“The Destiny of Technology: Modern Science and Human Freedom in the Later Heidegger,” Proceedings of the North American Heidegger Conference, May 2001.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

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

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

“Transformation in Deleuze and Heidegger: Serial and Thematic Repetition,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, October 2004.

“The Element of Surprise,” Alumni Conference, University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy, May 2004.

“Novelty and Explanation,” Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Philosophy, February 2004.

“Determinacy and the Dice Throw: The Accidental in Derrida and Deleuze,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, November 2003.

Commentator on Ruben Pelayo’s “Garcia Marquez’s Short Stories in Medias Res,” In Medias Res Faculty Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, November 2003.

“Intuition and Deliberative Judgment,” Southern Connecticut State University, Department of Philosophy, June 2003.

“The Singularity of Being,” invited paper, University of Mississippi, Department of Philosophy, October 2002.

“What Becomes of the Human after Humanism? Heidegger and Derrida,” North American Heidegger Conference, New Haven, May 2002.

“Dasein, Being with Others, and the Origins of Ethical Responsibility,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, April 2002.

“The Specter of Relativism: Objectivity and the Humanities,” Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, June 2001.

“The Destiny of Technology: Modern Science and Human Freedom in the Later Heidegger,” North American Heidegger Conference, New York, May 2001.

“Can an Ethics without Rules Avoid Relativism?” Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, May 2001.

“Who Decides History? Human Being and Historical Decision in the Beiträge,” Interpreting the Beiträge – 21^st Annual Martin Heidegger Symposium, Denton, Texas, April 2001.

“Between Arbitrariness and Simply Following Rules: Heidegger on Freedom, Causality, and Ethics,” Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, April 2001.

“Aristotle, Moral Particularism, and the Indeterminacy of Principles,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 2001.

“Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom and the Possibility of a Heideggerian Ethics,” Kent State University, Department of Philosophy, November 2000.

“Kant’s Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason and the Problem of a System of Metaphysics,” Ninth International Kant Congress, Berlin, Germany, March 2000.

“Universality and Particularity in Ethics: Aristotle, Moral Particularism, and the Indeterminacy of Moral Rules,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2000.

Commentator for Don Kelly Coble’s “Heidegger on Kant’s Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Kant’s Critic,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2000.

“What is Kant’s Doctrine of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason?” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1999.

“Kant on the Relation of Practical and Theoretical Philosophy,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1999.

Commentator for Hilary Thalman-Martinez’s “Re-Assessing ‘Subjectivization’ in Kant’s Theory of the Sublime,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1999.

“Kant on the Unity of Reason,” Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, Tennessee, October 1998.

Commentator for Marie de Lourdes Borge’s “Hegel and Kant on the Ontological Argument,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1997.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Heidegger, Postwar French Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Ethics, Social Philosophy, Novelty and Transformation, Holism, Freedom

DISSERTATION TITLE:

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

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:

University of Memphis