Dr.
Jerome Miller, Professor Emeritus
Retired at the end of the
Spring 2008 semester
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Dr. Jerome Miller
Philosophy House #106
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, Maryland 21801-6860
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E-Mail : jamiller@salisbury.edu
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Teaching in a small department is wonderful because it allows me to
teach an
array of courses that are reflective of my wide-ranging intellectual
interests. (It’s depressing to realize I will die before being able to read
all the books on my lists!) My approach to philosophy is "existential" which
means that I try to emphasize the relevance of philosophical questioning to
our personal lives and ask students to rigorously examine the meaning of
their experiences. I’m especially interested in the issues that arise in the
philosophy of religion (such as the existence of the God and the nature of
spirituality) and in theory of knowledge ("What is truth and is it possible
for us to access it?"). In addition to my courses in these areas, I teach a
seminar course entirely devoted to discussion of Plato’s Republic, and a
course in African American Philosophy that begins with Jimi Hendrix’s Star
Spangled Banner and goes on to explore texts by Frederick Douglass, Martin
Luther King and Ralph Ellison. I write on a regular basis both for
professional journals and for a wider "non-academic" audience. I've
published two books: The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis and
In the Throe of Wonder: Intimations of the Sacred in a Post-modern World.
I am currently working on a book about what it means to be historical, the
provisional title of which is In the Throe of the Future: History,
Culture and Normative Order.
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