Richard Amesbury
School Director, Associate Director for Graduate Studies & Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy,
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
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.
Education
- Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
- Diploma, Oxford University
- A.B., Harvard University
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| PHI 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 294 | Special Topics |
| REL 294 | Special Topics |
| POS 294 | Special Topics |
| POS 294 | Special Topics |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PHI 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 591 | Seminar |
| PHI 591 | Seminar |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |