Brian Harding, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Core Undergraduate Faculty

Office: CFO 709
940-898-2302  phone | 940-898-2301 fax | email: bharding@twu.edu

Education

Courses Taught
Contemporary Philosophy, Ethics, History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Medieval & Modern Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy, Logic and Critical Thinking,  Philosophy of Religion in America

Research Interests
Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy (especially Ancient and Medieval), Moral & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology

Recent Publications

• Harding, B. (forthcoming) “Machiavelli’s Politics and Critical Theory of Technology.” Argumentos de Razón Técnica: Revista española de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, y Filosofía de la Tecnología, 12.
• Harding, B. (2010). "Is Machiavelli’s Discussion of the Eternity of the World Averroistic?" Southwest Philosophical Studies, 32.
• Harding, B (2008). Augustine and Roman Virtue (London: Continuum Publishing).
• Harding, B. (forthcoming). “The Virtue of Suicide and the Suicide of Virtue: A Reading of Cicero’s On Ends and Tusculan Disputations.”  Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy.
• Harding, B. (2008).“What is Minimalist Phenomenology?” Alea: Revista Internacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica, 6, 161-181.
• Harding, B. (2008). “The Use of Alexander the Great in Augustine’s City of God” Augustinian Studies, 39, 113-128
• Harding, B. (2007).  “Dialects of Desire and the Psychopathology of Alterity: From Levinas to Kierkegaard via Lacan.” The Heythrop Journal, 48, 406-422.
• Harding, B. (2006). “Epistemology and Eudemonism in Augustine’s Contra Academicos” Augustinian Studies, 37, 247-271.
• Harding, B. (2005). “Epoché, the Transcendental Ego, and Intersubjectivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology.” The Journal of Philosophical Research, 30, 141-156.
• Harding, B. (2004). “Metaphysical Speculation and its Applicability to a Mode of Living: The Case of Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae.”  Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter, 9, 77-89.
• Harding, B. (2003). “Skepticism, Illumination and Christianity in Augustine’s Contra Academicos.”Augustinian Studies, 34, 197-212.

Honors/Grants/Service

• University Curriculum Committee
• Library Advisory Committee                                                                                                    
• Undergraduate Program Committee                                                                                                
• Summer Stipend, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (2008)