Dr. Ian M. Duckles EMPLOYMENT Adjunct August 2007-Present Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Grossmont Cuyamaca Community College District Adjunct August 2008-Present Department of Philosophy San Diego Community College District Adjunct August 2008-Present Department of Philosophy University of San Diego Lecturer July 2007-July 2008 Humanities Core Course University of California, Irvine Adjunct August 2007-December 2007 Department of Philosophy Chapman University Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track August 2004-August 2007 Department of Philosophy Indiana University of Pennsylvania EDUCATION PhD, Philosophy June 2004 Dissertation: “Shipwrecked with the aid of repentance”—Sin, Ethics and Normativity in Kant and Kierkegaard MA, Philosophy June 2000 University of California, Irvine BA, Philosophy May 1997 University of California, Berkeley TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lower Division Courses Critical Thinking Contemporary Moral Problems Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Ethics Introduction to Existentialism Logic Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology Reflection on Human Nature Upper Division Courses Ethics Existentialism and Phenomenology History of Philosophy: Socrates to Aquinas Justice and Human Rights Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Film Political Philosophy Honors Theses Kierkegaard Independent Studies Contemporary Continental Philosophy MacIntyre and Virtue Ethics PUBLICATIONS “Death and Kierkegaard” Forthcoming. “Death Don’t Have No Mercy: On the Metaphysics of Loss” co-authored with Eric Rubenstein, in The Grateful Dead and Philosophy. Open Court, 2007: 225-238. “A (Partial) Defense of MacIntyre’s Reading of Kierkegaard” Idealistic Studies 36, no. 2 (2006). “Kierkegaard’s Irrationalism: A Response to Davenport and Rudd” Southwest Philosophy Review 21, no. 2 (2005): 37-51. PRESENTATIONS “Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and the Limits of Reflection in Ethics” 2006 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL April 26-29, 2006 "A Kierkegaardian Critique of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ with Continual References to Scorsese" 19th Annual SSHE-Interdisciplinary Association of Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference, Edinboro, PA April 7-8, 2006 “Rousseau, Nietzsche and Anscombe: When the facts don’t matter” 18th Annual PASSHE Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies, Mansfield, PA April 1-2, 2005 "Guyer on the Relation between Morality and Happiness in Kant's Conception of the Highest Good" 2004 APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL April 22-25, 2004 “Kierkegaard and the Limits of Reflection in Ethics” Southern California Philosophy Conference. University of California, Riverside October 25, 2003 “Freedom and Ethical Subjectivity in Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard” Schleiermacher Kierkegaard Congress. University of Copenhagen October 9-13, 2003 “Kant’s Reciprocity Thesis: Towards an Existentialist Understanding” 2003 Berkeley Stanford Graduate Philosophy Conference. Stanford, CA May 3, 2003 “Why be Moral? Why be Ethical? An Examination of Arguments in Kant and Kierkegaard” Second International Kierkegaard Conference, “Kierkegaard: Between Ethics and Religion” University of Leeds July 5-8, 2001 Southern California Philosophy Conference. California State University, Long Beach October 21, 2000 COMMENTS Commentator on “Nietzsche on Perspectivism and Paradox Tolerance” 2003 Berkeley Stanford Graduate Philosophy Conference. Stanford May 3, 2003 SESSIONS CHAIRED Søren Kierkegaard Society Group Session: Kierkegaard and Epistemology 2006 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL April 28, 2006 Session on Continental Philosophy Southern California Philosophy Conference. University of California, Irvine October 26, 2002 SERVICE Departmental Tenure and Evaluation Committee Chairperson, IUP 2006-2007 Departmental Speaker Series Co-Coordinator, IUP 2006-2007 Member, APSCUF Committee on Gender Issues and Social Justice, IUP 2006-2007 APSCUF, Departmental Representative, IUP 2005-2007 Safe Zone Member September 2004-August 2007 Assistant Editor, Website Coordinator, Studies in the Humanities November 2004-June 2007 Judicial Board Member, IUP September 2004-June 2007 College Research Committee, Departmental Representative, IUP 2005-2006 College Technology Committee, Departmental Representative, IUP August 2004-May 2006 Website Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, IUP September 2004-June 2007 Advisor, Film Club, IUP September 2004-August 2006 Advisor, Philosophy Club, IUP January 2005-August 2006 Graduate Student Representative, UCI Fall 2000-Spring 2001 HONORS AND AWARDS IUP Senate Small Research Grant 2006 APA, Central Division, Graduate Student Travel Stipend 2004 Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, UCI 2003 Dissertation Research Fellowship, UCI 2003 Humanities Center Research Grant, UCI 2002 Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant, UCI 2001 Graduate Fellowship, UCI 1997 LANGUAGES Reading Knowledge of German and Danish |