Marcia Morgan Dean, Global Education & Professor, Philosophy |
Education
Teaching Interests
My teaching focuses on connections between philosophical ethics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy in the European and American traditions. I teach courses in the history of philosophy (ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy) and in the special areas of ethics, aesthetics, and social philosophy.
Research, Scholarship or Creative/Artistic Interests
I focus on the intersection of ethics and aesthetics and their implications in areas of social and political philosophy. I have taken up the investigation between ethics and aesthetics in the context of the ongoing international forced migration and refugee situation. My sole-authored monograph on this research, titled Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis: Emotions, Contestation, and Agency (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics, Routledge, 2020) analyzes three domains of human experience in regard to the ethics of forced migration: the aesthetic, the ethical-political and the religious. I argue for a rethinking of the relationship between care and justice by recontextualizing care as contestation, specifically considering emotion as a necessary constituent of agency. The book has been reviewed in Review of Politics, vol. 85 (2023) Cambridge University Press; PhilPapers, "Philosophy of Immigration" article; and Journal of Refugee Studies vol. 35, no. 3 (September 2022) Oxford University Press.
Prior to this, I published an edited anthology titled Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy, co-edited with Megan Craig (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). The book has been reviewed in CHOICE (July 2016) and in the Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society (2019). Additional publications are included below.