Carlo Filice has been a member of the 黑料传送门 faculty since 1985. His areas of expertise include ethics and comparative religious ideas. His recent book, The Purpose of Life: An Eastern Philosophical Vision, tackles some perennial questions and ventures some unusual answers.
Office Hours
Spring 2020 - M/T/W 2:45 - 3:45, and by appointment.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
B.A., Western Illinois University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois; 1986
Publications
The Purpose of Life: An Eastern Philosophical Vision (University Press of America, 2011) Buy it on Amazon
Selected Articles:
Success and Luck, Philosophy Now, No 166, 2025;
The First 鈥淔ake News鈥 Story (or, What the Serpent Would Have Said), Counterpunch, May 2018
Why is There a World, Philosophy Now, No 128, 2018;
Free Will is Still Alive, Philosophy Now, No 124, 2018;
Libertarian Autonomy and Intrinsic Motives, Social Theory and Practice, Vol 36, No 4, 2010.
Review of Understanding World Religions: A Road Map for Justice and Peace." In The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol 17, No 2, 2008.
The Moral Case for Reincarnation, Religious Studies, Vol 42, March 2006.
On the Autonomy of the Divine, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2004.
On The Obligation To Keep Informed About Distant Atrocities, newly revised and updated, included in Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, Third Edition, by May and Collins (Prentice Hall, 2002).
Interests
Theories of Freedom
Ethics/Justice Theories
Philosophy of Religion
Purpose of Life Accounts
Classes
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PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy
Encourages critical thinking about fundamental problems that concern existence, knowledge, and value. As a means to this end, several philosophical works are read, discussed, and evaluated.
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PHIL 201: Environmental Ethics
An inquiry concerning which entities, if any, have rights, whether non-human entities can have rights, and how one could justify claims about non-human rights. The outcome of the inquiry depends on an adequate account of good-in-itself. The course includes a survey of the environmental problems facing this planet.
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PHIL 497: Top: Free Will, Death&Reincarn
For advanced students. Focuses on a single philosophical problem or philosopher, or a pair of problems or philosophers. Topic varies from term to term, and student presentations comprise a significant portion of the course.