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C.
Allen Speight
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Placement
Office: STH 517
E-mail: casp8@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Hegel and German Idealism, Ethics, Philosophy of
Action, Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy |
Before coming to Boston University, Dr. Speight
taught at St. Xavier University of Chicago and
the University of Chicago, where he chaired the
university’s Basic Program of Liberal Education
for Adults. He has been a Berlin Prize Fellow
of the American Academy in Berlin (2003), a Fulbright
Scholar at the Hegel Archive of the Ruhr-Universität
Bochum (1991-92), and a fellow of the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 1990). Dr. Speight
has twice won the Undergraduate Philosophy Association’s
Excellence in Teaching Award and also received
the College Honors Program Oustanding Teaching
Award.
Dr. Speight’s current research interests
include the philosophy of action and the ethics
and aesthetics of German Idealism. His graduate
level teaching has included courses on the concept
of responsibility, the history of ethics and
the philosophy of literature.
Recent publications include:
Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001).
“The Metaphysics of Morals and Hegel’s Critique of Kantian Ethics,” History
of Philosophy Quarterly 14.4 (October 1997): 379-402.
"Butler and Hegel on Forgiveness and Agency," Southern Journal
of Philosophy 43:2 (Summer 2005): 299-316.
"'Listening to Reason': The Role of Persuasion in Aristotle's Account of
Praise, Blame and the Voluntary," Philosophy and Rhetoric 38:3
(2005): 213-225.
“The Beautiful Soul and the Language of Forgiveness,” in Die
Metaphysik der praktischen Welt, ed. C. Jamme and A. Grossmann (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2000), pp. 238-245.
“Arendt and Hegel on the Tragic Nature of Action,” Philosophy
and Social Criticism 28.5 (September 2002): 523-536.
"Hegel, Jacobi and Skepticism," Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie 10
(2005): 187-197.
“Hegel and Aesthetics,” article commissioned for The New Cambridge
Companion to Hegel (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
"Friedrich Schlegel," The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming),
Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu
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