Centre College Faculty

Daniel Kirchner

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Telephone: 859-238-5348
E-mail: daniel.kirchner@centre.edu
Office: Crounse Hall—436

Kirchner came to Centre in 2009 as a Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy and began as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2010. Prior to completing his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Indiana University in 2010, he received a B.A. in International Relations and German at the Johns Hopkins University, and completed a Masters of Theological Studies at Harvard University.

Kirchner specializes in ethics and 19th-century philosophy, and on Hegel's use of ancient views of the self in his ethics in particular. He teaches a range of courses including humanities, philosophy of religion, introduction to ethics, biomedical ethics, ethical theory, 19th-century philosophy, and the ethics of food.

Kirchner recently published a paper entitled "Augustine's Use of Epicureanism: Three Paradigmatic Problems for a Theory of Friendship in the Confessions" in International Philosophical Quarterly (June 2010), and is currently researching a book manuscript on The Ethics of Food to accompany his course and the Ethics of Food Symposium he is organizing for April 2012.

Kirchner is the founder and director of The Centre Institute for Food Ethics Research (CIFER), a think-tank dedicated to research and publication on food ethics.



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