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A brief resume of Jeffrey Wattles

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University

Education

            B.A. in philosophy, Stanford University, 1966
            M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy, Northwestern University, 1970, 1973


Additional study:

            Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (Rotary Fellowship), 1967- 68
            Fuller Theological Seminary, 1973-74
            University of Toronto, Centre for Religious Studies, 1989-90


Academic Publications

            “Religious Experience, Fanaticism, and Kant.”  In R. Blake Michael, ed., The Ohio Academy of Religion Scholarly Papers 2002, 27-34.  Delaware, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University: 2002.

            "The Universal Family: More than Metaphor?" 100-104 in Emmanuel K. Twesigye, ed., The Ohio Academy of Religion Scholarly Papers 2000.  Athens, Ohio: The Ohio Academy of Religion: 2000.


            The Golden Rule. Oxford University Press, 1996.

            "Spiritual Dwelling and Environmental Ethics." Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, pp. 13-14 in (4.1), Winter 1993.

            "Plato's Brush with the Golden Rule." The Journal of Religious Ethics (21.1), Spring 1993.

            "Dialectic and Spiritual Experience in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy as Metanoetics (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1990). 

            "Philosophy, Religion, and Indoctrination."  Teaching Philosophy, January 1988. 

            "Levels of Meaning in the Golden Rule." The Journal of Religious Ethics (15.1), Spring 1987.