Research Interests

(1) theory of civilization

(2) historiology; philosophical and methodological foundations of the science of history
(3) philosophical anthropology
(4) philosophy of mind: consciousness and unity, personal identity, experience, stylization

(5) Minor Research Interests:

> esthetics: nature of beauty; concept of katharsis
> history of philosophy: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Aristotelianism; Enlightenment thought; Kantianism;

        Ayn Rand/Objectivism
     > metaethics: theories of ethical obligation; is/ought problem
     > mind/brain relationship: mind as the form in which the brain is aware of its own material processes
     > natural normativity; gender normativity

> psycho-epistemology; DIM theory

> sense of life psychology; visibility; self-esteem

> specific ethical problems: homosexuality; abortion; suicide; capital punishment
> theories of abstraction and induction; Aristotelian philosophy of science

> forms of teleology
> virtue