Biography
Josh Hayes is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at 午夜福利精品福利. His interest in Philosophy began as a high-school student at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California during a trip to El Salvador. He pursued his B.A. in Classics-History-Politics with a minor in German Studies at Colorado College where he completed his undergraduate thesis on the 1938 papal encyclical, Humani Generis Unitas, in light of the early Christian history of AntiSemitism. He completed his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2005 under the direction of Dr. Claudia Baracchi. His primary research interests are ancient and medieval philosophy and Twentieth Century and Contemporary European Philosophy.
He enjoys introducing students to Philosophy and promoting the practice of philosophy as way of life by organizing opportunities for students to participate in service-learning projects relevant to their communities and the environment. Over the last decade, he has taught a wide range of courses including social and political philosophy, applied ethics (biomedical ethics, business ethics, ethics and community engagement, environmental ethics), logic, environmental philosophy, and historically thematic courses in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, and nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy.
He is the author of numerous articles exploring the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics, to Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the medieval Arabic tradition, and the continental tradition. After co-editing a volume of essays, Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition for Cambridge University Press, his current research explores the contemporary relevance of nature, place, and political community in light of ancient philosophy and Christian, Jewish, and Islamic medieval commentaries. He is currently finishing a manuscript entitled 鈥淎l-Farabi and the Arabic Cosmopolitan Tradition鈥 where he defends Al-Farabi as a proponent of a cosmopolitan conception of citizenship and community. He is also working on another project treating the role of poetry and place in the Anthropocene Age with a particular focus on West Coast poetry-especially Robinson Jeffers, William Everson, and Gary Snyder. As part of his service to 午夜福利精品福利, he developed and now directs the Minor in Community Engagement and serves as a Faculty mentor for the Reading Collegiate Scholars Program. He also serves as chair of the Faculty Development and Research Committee.
In addition to his teaching, scholarship, and service, he is an active member of the Ancient Philosophy Society having served as a member of the Program Committee, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the International Association of Environmental Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association, and a founding member and editor of JPACT, Journal of the Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition.
Ph.D., New School for Social Research: Graduate Faculty, 2005
M.A., New School for Social Research: Graduate Faculty, 2001
B.A., Classics-History-Politics, The Colorado College, 1998
Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Books:
Heidegger in the Islamicate World, ed. Urs Gosken, Josh Hayes, Kata Moser (Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2019)
Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, eds. Ahmed Alwishah and Josh Hayes (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Recent Articles and Contributions:
"Benevolence and the Nature of Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics," Epoche, Spring 2019.
鈥淎l-F?r?b?鈥檚 Cosmpolitanism and the Arabic Commentary Tradition鈥 The Edinburgh Critical History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, eds. Andrew La Zella and Richard Lee (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
鈥淥ikeiosis and the Fate of Nature in the Stoic Tradition鈥 Continental Stoicisms, eds. Andrew Benjamin and Kurt Lampe (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming)
鈥淭he Ambivalence of Eros: Plato and the Beginning(s) of Nature鈥 Ontologies of Nature, eds. Marjolein Oele and Gerard Kuperus (Kluwer Academic Press, 2017)
鈥淭he Arabic Reception of Aristotle鈥檚 Nicomachean Ethics鈥 Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, eds. Ahmed Alwishah and Josh Hayes (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
鈥淏eing Ensouled: Desire as an Efficient Cause in Aristotle鈥檚 De Anima鈥 Epoch?: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 17.2 (2013): 313-335.
鈥淏eing at Home: Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Place鈥 Philosophy of the Beats, ed. Sharin Elkholy (University of Kentucky Press, 2012), 47-62.
鈥淏eing-Affected: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Pathology of Truth鈥 Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays, ed. Daniel Dahlstrom (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 156-173.
鈥淒econstructing Dasein: Heidegger鈥檚 Earliest Interpretations of Aristotle鈥檚 De Anima鈥 The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 61 (2007): 263-293.
鈥淗eidegger, Aristotle, Animality鈥 Philosophy Today, vol. 51 (2007): 82-88.
鈥淔undamental Ontology and the Problem of Animal Life鈥 Revue de th茅orie et culture existentialistes et ph茅nom茅nologie 2, no. 2 (2007): 42-60.
鈥淗eidegger鈥檚 Metontology and the Metaphysics of Transcendence鈥 Gatherings: Proceedings of the North American Heidegger Circle, 2007.
鈥淎 Life of Time and Desire: Reflections on Heidegger鈥檚 De Anima鈥 Existentia: An International Journal of Philosophy, vol. XVI (2006): 365-378.
鈥淭he Desire of Dasein: Heidegger鈥檚 Interpretation of Aristotelian Orexis鈥 Gatherings: Proceedings of the North American Heidegger Circle, 2006.
Recent Book Reviews:
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis, by Jason M. Wirth, Frontiers of Philosophy in China (2017)
Naturalizing Heidegger: His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental Philosophy by David. E. Storey, Phaenex: Revue de th茅orie et culture existentialistes et ph茅nom茅nologie, vol. 11, no. 1 (2016): 119-131.
Aristotle on the Nature of Community by Adriel Trott, Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 135 (2015): 291-292.
Plato鈥檚 Gods by Gerd Van Riel, Review of Metaphysics, vol. 67 (2014): 891-93.
The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition by Roger Berkowitz, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 3 (2008): 523-526.
Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being by Walter Brogan Existentia: An International Journal of Philosophy, XVII (2007): 473-479.
Praxis und Logos bei Aristoteles by Friederike Rese, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 26, no. 1 (2005): 224-228.
Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Papers:
鈥淎ristotle, Avicenna, and the Nature of Inclination in De Caelo III.2 and De Anima II.4鈥 Marquette University Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition Workshop, June 2017
鈥淩obinson Jeffers鈥 Inhumanism and the Poetics of Place 鈥 International Association of Environmental Philosophy, October 2016
鈥淥riginary Anxiety: Henry, Freud, and the Incarnation of Animal Life鈥 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, October 2016
"Robinson Jeffers and the Reinvention of Stoicism鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, Sheldon Jackson College, August 2016
鈥淎l-F?r?b?鈥檚 Cosmopolitanism and the Aristotelian Commentary Tradition鈥 Ancient Philosophy Society, Colby College, May 2016 (keynote panel)
鈥淎 Politics to Come: On Benevolence and the Nature of Friendship in Aristotle鈥檚 Ethics鈥 Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, October 2015
鈥淔easting Socrates: Hospitality and the Play of Number in Plato鈥檚 Timaeus鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, Seattle University, September 2015
鈥淎l-F?r?b? and the Arabic Reception of the Nicomachean Ethics鈥 Marquette University Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition Workshop, June 2015
鈥淲allace Stegner and the Place of the American West鈥 International Association of Environmental Philosophy, New Orleans, October 2014
鈥淔ifty Days At Illiam: Cy Twombly and the Homeric Tradition鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, Loyola Marymount University, October 2014
鈥淎lways Coming Home: Wallace Stegner鈥檚 West鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, University of San Francisco, November 2013
鈥淎ristotle鈥檚 Zoo: Thinking with Other Animals鈥 午夜福利精品福利 Salon Series, November 2013
鈥淎 Conflict of Interpretation: Agamben and Derrida before the Law鈥 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, November 2012
鈥淏ack on Fire: D?gen, Snyder and the Heraclitean Logos鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, University of Hawaii, September 2012
鈥淎mbiguities of Eros: Heidegger鈥檚 Encounter with Plato鈥檚 Theaetetus鈥 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, 2011
鈥淏eing at Home: Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Place鈥 International Association of Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, October 2011
鈥淭he Myth of the Trickster: Old Man Coyote and Hermes as Political Animals鈥 Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition, Seattle University, October 2011
鈥淭he Striving Soul: On Plato鈥檚 Theaetetus 186a鈥 William J. Prior Philosophy Conference, Santa Clara University, May 2010
鈥淎 Fact of Life: Heidegger and the Facticity of Ruinance鈥 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, November 2010
鈥淏eing Ensouled: Desire and Movement in Aristotle鈥檚 De Anima鈥 Ancient Philosophy Society, Michigan State University, April 2010
鈥淟ife and Logos: Revisiting the Problem of Animal Cognition鈥 Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association, University of San Francisco, May 2009
鈥淭aking the Leap: Heidegger and the Other Beginning鈥 Philosophy Research Group, Stanford University, October 2008
鈥淭he Logos of the Living: An Ontology of the Animal鈥 International Association of Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, May 2008
鈥淏eing Open and Being True: Reading Heidegger, Reading Aristotle鈥 Philosophy Lecture Series, University of San Francisco, February 2007
鈥淒asein and the Facticity of Animality鈥 Philosophy Lecture Series, California State University-Stanislaus, May 2007
鈥淗eidegger鈥檚 Metontology and the Metaphysics of Transcendence鈥 North American Heidegger Conference, DePaul University, May 2007
鈥淗eidegger, Aristotle, and Animal Life鈥 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, Fall 2006
鈥淭he Desire of Dasein: Heidegger鈥檚 Interpretation of Aristotelian Orexis鈥 North American Heidegger Conference, Boston University, Spring 2006
鈥淒econstructing Dasein: Heidegger鈥檚 Earliest Interpretations of Aristotle鈥檚 De Anima鈥 Invited lecture, University of Wisconsin, December 2005
鈥淜ant鈥檚 Phenomenology of Respect鈥滳ollegium Phaenomenologicum, July 2004