Richard Amesbury
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Richard Amesbury is a philosopher and scholar of religion with three main (occasionally overlapping) areas of interest: (a) religion and contemporary political thought; (b) Wittgenstein; and (c) the politics of the secular.
Prior to joining ASU he held the chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and chaired the Philosophy and Religion Department at Clemson University, where he was Professor of Philosophy and of Religious Studies.
Professor Amesbury’s current research examines the ensemble of dispositions, affects, and intuitions that comprise the secular – i.e., the epistemic regime within which religion emerges as an object of interest, anxiety, regulation, and academic study. More broadly, he is interested in methodology in the humanities and in the role our moral reactions play in providing access to an intelligible, objective world.
- Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
- Diploma, Oxford University
- A.B., Harvard University
Courses
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 591 | Seminar |
| PHI 591 | Seminar |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| FIS 494 | Special Topics |
| HUL 494 | Special Topics |
| HUL 598 | Special Topics |
| ENG 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 391 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |
| HST 357 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |
| PHI 391 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |