Professor
Philip
Rossi, S.J. (Ph.D., University of
Texas, [1975]), specializes in the philosophy of religion and
Christian ethics and has published extensively on the theological
import of the work of Immanuel Kant. He has been visiting
professor at Sogang University, Seoul Korea and at the Ateneo
de Manila University in the Philippines. In 1992 and in
1999, was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He is the author
of Together Toward Hope: A Journey to Moral Theology (University
of Notre Dame Press, 1983), co-editor (with Michael J. Wreen)
of Kant's Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered (Indiana
University Press, 1992) and co-editor (with Paul Soukup, S.J.)
of Mass Media and the Moral Imagination (Sheed and Ward,
1994). He has presented papers at meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion, the
Catholic Theological Society of America, the College Theology
Society, the Society of Christian Ethics, the Russian Kant Society
and at the last four International Kant Congresses. He has published
more than twenty-five articles in books and professional journals,
was editor of Philosophy & Theology from 1993-2000
and served on the board of editorial consultants for Theological
Studies from 1991-98. He is currently a member of the
Board of Directors of the College Theology Society and of the
Global Ethics and Religion Forum. He has
recently completed a book manuscript, The Social Authority
of Reason: Critique, Radical Evil and the Destiny of Humankind,
which will be published by SUNY Press. In addition to continuing
research on Kant, his current interests focus on a theological
appropriation of the work of the Canadian philosopher Charles
Taylor, and on the impact of a globalized, postmodern culture
upon the practices of philosophical and theological inquiry.
Recent publications: “The Idiom of Spirit: Discourse, Human
Nature, and Otherness. A Response to Philip Clayton and
Steven Smith,” in An Advent of the Spirit: Orientations in
Pneumatology, edited by D. Lyle Dabney and Bradford Hinze,
Marquette University Press, 2002: 233-39. “Autonomy: Towards
the Social Self-Governance of Reason,” American Catholic Philosophical
Quarterly 75, 2001: 171-77. “War: The Social Form of Radical
Evil,” Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des IX.
Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Band 4, edited by Volker
Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Ralph Schumacher, Walter de
Gruyter, 2001: 248-256. “The Leveling of Meaning: Religious Ethics
in the Face of a Culture of Unconcern,” Ethics in the World
Religions, edited by Nancy Martin and Joseph Runzo, One World
Press, 2001: 161-74.
- Philosophical Theology
- Christian Ethics
- Immanuel Kant
