Jim Bennett

See Also: Complete CV

My Ph.D. is from Tulane University and I joined the department in 1975.

Research Interests

The nature of personal existence and its relation to philosophic activity

Recent, representative publications

• "Selves and Personal Existence in the Existentialist Tradition," The Journal of the History of Philosophy (January 1999)
  
  
• "Karl Jaspers and Scientific Philosophy," Journal of the History of Philosophy (Summer 1993)
  
  
• "The Meaning of Life: A Qualitative Perspective," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Winter 1984)
  
  
• "Dewey on Causality and Novelty," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Summer 1980) 
  
  
• "Beyond Good and Evil: A Critique of Taylor's 'Moral Voluntarism'," The Journal of Value Inquiry (Summer 1978)

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate courses in introductory philosophy, logic, existentialism, and pragmatism graduate courses in existentialism and pragmatism

Contact Information

Jim Bennett
Retired Associate Professor
808 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480

Phone: 865-974-7206
Fax: 865-974-3509

Email: jobennet@utk.edu