Shabbir Akhtar, Assistant Professor
William H. Brenner- Full Professor
Lisa A. Eckenwiler- Associate Professor
Rod L. Evans- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Lawrence Hatab- Professor & Chair
Harry K. Jones- Adjunct Instructor
William B. Jones- Associate Professor
Dale E. Miller- Assistant Professor
David P. Putney- Associate Professor
Shabbir Akhtar, Assistant Professor. Dr. Akhtar joined the faculty of the philosophy
department in the Fall of 2002. He hold a Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His areas of specialization
include philosophy of religion, Islam, and Christian-Muslim
relations. His course offerings at Old Dominion University include
World Religions: A Philosophical Introduction, and Islam.
Dr. Akhtar has published articles and books on philosophy of religion, Christianity, and Islam. He has also published two volumes of poetry.
Reach Dr. Akhtar by email at sakhtar@odu.edu
William H. Brenner, Full Professor. Dr. Brenner has been teaching
at Old Dominion since 1970. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Virginia in 1970. His areas of specialization include Wittgenstein, philosophy
of religion, modern philosophy, and logic. His course offerings at Old Dominion
University include Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Modern Philosophy,
Logic, Philosophy of Religion, and Wittgenstein.
Dr. Brenner has published numerous articles and several books, including:
- Logic and Philosophy
- Elements of Modern Philosophy.
- Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Reach Dr. Brenner by email at WBrenner@odu.edu.
Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Associate Professor. Dr. Eckenwiler joined
the faculty of the philosophy department in the Fall of 1997. She is a
graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989) and the University
of Tennessee-Knoxville (1997). Her area of specialization is biomedical
ethics. She is also interested in feminist philosophy, including feminist
ethics and epistemologies. Her dissertation examined feminist ethics and
clinical research for women, and in particular, the need for broadening
the conception of justice which governs research with human subjects.
She has authored two articles on women and the ethics of clinical research, and co-edited a book on institutional policy in pediatrics. Dr. Eckenwiler is currently teaching biomedical ethics. In addition, she offers consultation services for Eastern Virginia Medical School and its associated institutions.
Before coming to Old Dominion University, Dr. Eckenwiler taught a course in feminist ethics, women and health care at Loyola University Medical School in Chicago, and worked with the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago on ethics and health care for urban women. When she is not working, she can be found reveling in the outdoors, especially the mountains.
Reach Dr. Eckenwiler by email at LEckenwi@odu.edu.
Rod L. Evans, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Dr. Evans was a philosophy
major at Old Dominion University, graduating in 1978. He went on to earn
his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1987. His philosophical interests
include ethics and political philosophy. He is the editor of seven books,
including:
- Fundamentalism: Hazards and Heartbreaks
- Drug Legalization: For and Against
- The Right Words
- The Quotable Conservative
At Old Dominion University, Dr. Evans has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Bioethics, and Business Ethics.
Lawrence J. Hatab, Full Professor and Chair. Dr. Hatab began teaching
at Old Dominion in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from Fordham University
in 1976. His areas of specialization include 19th- and 20th-Century Continental
Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Social and Political Philosophy.
He has published over twenty articles and four books:
- Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence
- Myth and Philosophy
- A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics
- Ethics and Finitude
His course offerings at Old Dominion University include 19th-Century Philosophy, 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Ancient Philosophy, Myth and Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Postmodernism and Political Philosophy.
Dr. Hatab's claim to fame is that he was Denzel Washington's philosophy teacher at Fordham University. Dr. Hatab is also a recovering academic, and he has been jargon-free for six years. Reach Dr. Hatab by email at LHatab@odu.edu.
Harry K. Jones, Adjunct Instructor. Mr. Jones has
been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at Old Dominion
University since 1984. He is completing his Ph.D. from
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His
dissertation topic is "Categorial Interpretation as
Cultural Therapy."
His philosophical interests include metaphysics, the problem of alienation, epistemology, and the history of philosophy.
William B. Jones, Associate Professor. Dr. Jones
began teaching at Old Dominion in 1975. He received a Ph.D.
in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1970 and a
Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1974.
He has published numerous articles in the philosophy of science and technology and is currently working on a book that explores the relationships between technology, religion, and science.
His course offerings at Old Dominion University include Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Natural Science, Environmental Ethics, and Studies in Philosophy and Technology. Dr. Jones was Chair of the department from 1985-1991.
Reach Dr. Jones by email at WBJones@odu.edu.
David E. Loomis, Lecturer. Dr. Loomis has been
teaching at Old Dominion University since 1980. He
received his Ph.D. from Notre Dame in 1979. His
dissertation was titled, "The Philosophical
Praxis of Rhetoric in Plato's Republic."
His philosophical interests include Ancient Greek philosophy and the relationship between philosophy and literature.
At Old Dominion University, Dr. Loomis has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Plato, Logic, and Ancient and Modern Philosophy.
Reach Dr. Loomis by email at DLoomis@odu.edu.
Dale E. Miller, Assistant Professor. Dr. Miller
joined the faculty of the philosophy department in 1999.
He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.A. in economics
from the University of Pittsburgh; his B.A. is from
Wichita State University. Before coming to Old Dominion
he held positions at the University of Minnesota Duluth
and the University of Florida. In 1996-97 he was a
visiting research scholar and tutor in the U.K. at the
University of Reading.
Dr. Miller's primary research interests are in moral and social-political philosophy; he is especially interested in consequentialist approaches to moral theory, democratic theory, and the work of John Stuart Mill. His dissertation was entitled Public Spirit and Liberal Democracy: John Stuart Mill's Civic Liberalism. He has published articles on rule-consequentialism and on various aspects of Mill's thought. He is the book review editor for the journal Utilitas. At Old Dominion he has taught or is slated to teach courses in business ethics, computer ethics, and ethical theory. When not working he can be found reveling in the Internet, especially in e-mail.
Reach Dr. Miller by email at DEMiller@odu.edu.
Dr. Miller's Homepage is located at http://www.lions.odu.edu/~demiller/
David P. Putney, Associate Professor. Dr. Putney
began teaching at Old Dominion in 1990. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 1990. His area of
specialization is Asian philosophy and religion,
Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism and Taoism. Dr. Putney
is fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Japanese and
has a reading ability in Chinese, Sanskrit, and Pali.
He has published several articles in Buddhist philosophy and has a book coming out entitled, The Nature and Practice of Freedom: A Dialogue on Freedom and Determinism in Buddhist and Western Philosophy. His course offerings at Old Dominion University include World Religions, Introduction to Philosophy, Asian Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese Philosophy and Religion, Japanese Philosophy and Religion, and Modern Philosophy.
Reach Dr. Putney by email at DPutney@odu.edu.
Deborah Bond, Departmental Secretary. Deborah Bond, department
secretary, joined the department in May of 2004.
She is your one reliable source of information for anything regarding the university.
Reach Deborah Bond by email at DBond@odu.edu.
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