Department of Religious Studies
Faculty
Tony Edwards
Associate Professor
PhD, Stanford University, 1981
2601 Cathedral of Learning
412.624.2053
e-mail
Fields
Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, metaphor, religious ethics, Aquinas, Maimonides
Teaching
Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Rationality, Wisdom, Paul, and graduate seminars on philosophy and ethics, teaching religious studies, the language of religion
Selected Publications
Interior Acts: Teleology, Justice, and Friendship in the Religious Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, University Press of America, 1986
"Durkheim, Kant, and the Social Construction of the Categories," in Reappraising Durkheim, edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian Wilson, Brill, 2002
"The Teacher's Dilemma: Redescription in the Teaching of Religious Studies," Teaching Theology and Religion 2.1 (1999)
"Rorty on the Literalization of Metaphor," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 9.2 (1997)
"Play, Ritual, and the Rationality of Religious Paradox," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 5.1 (1993)
"Structure and Change in Aquinas's Religious Ethics," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54.2 (1986)
Current Projects
"Justice and Eternal Punishment"
“Justice, Empathy, and the Relation to the Other”
"Academic Naturalism: Ockham's Razor and the Existence of God"
"Is God Beyond Logic"
University Affiliation
Core faculty member of the Program in Cultural Studies