Faculty Experts- Philosophy
Name: Alberto Hernandez-Lemus
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6029
E-mail: ahernandez@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D., New School University, philosophy, 2000; M.A., New School University, philosophy, 1996; B.A., Colorado College, comparative literature, 1987
Came to CC: 1999
Courses taught: FYE Ethics/Aesthetics, Latin American Philosophy, FYE Modernity/Post-Modernity, Philosophy and Race, Aesthetics; History of Modern Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Aesthetics; Latin American philosophy; deleuze
Major publications: Civil society, globalization; zapatismo; liberation theology
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Halian cinema
Name: Jonathan Scott Lee
Title: Professor and chair
Office phone: (719) 389-6860
E-mail: jlee@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: A.B. Temple University, 1973; M.S. University of Connecticut, 1974; Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1978
Came to CC: 1992
Courses taught: Variety of courses on the history of Western philosophy, philosophies of India, philosophies of Africa, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and philosophy and film in the work of Jean-Luc Godard
Areas of expertise: History of philosophy, both Western and non-Western; philosophy of the arts (aesthetics); the complex relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy; yoga tradition of philosophical Hinduism; issues where Western philosophy and Buddhism overlap; contemporary music and art: a composer, spent much of professional life teaching, writing, and thinking about contemporary arts
Major publications: "Mimesis and Beyond: Mallarmé, Boulez, and Cage," (1986) in Richard Kostelanetz (ed.), "Writings about John Cage "(University of Michigan Press, 1993)
"Jacques Lacan". (University of Massachusetts Press, 1990)
'"I Am Because We Are"-Readings in Black Philosophy", co-edited with Fred Lee Hord. (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995)
Name: John Riker
Title: Jadson Bemis professor of the humanities
Office phone: (719) 389-6566
E-mail: jriker@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Middlebury College, philosophy; Ph.D. Vanderbilt, philosophy
Came to CC in: 1968
Courses taught at CC: Ethics; History of Philosophy; Metaphysics
Areas of expertise: Ethics and depth psychology; ethics and the unconscious
Major publications: "Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious"; "Human Excellence and an Ecologual Conception of the Psyche"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Hiking in the San Juans; philosophies of nature
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