Brian Lightbody

Department of Philosophy

Brock University

St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1

Office:  Room 268 at 573 Glenridge Ave.

Telephone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5313

Email: blightbody@brocku.ca

Areas of Specialization: 19-20^th century Continental Philosophy, Philosophical Genealogy, Nietzsche, Foucault and Epistemology
 

Areas of Competence: Bioethics, Logic, Philosophy of History, Ethics
 

Philosophical Genealogy: An Epistemological Reconstruction of Nietzsche and Foucault’s Genealogical Method (Appearing in Two Volumes) Forthcoming, Peter Lang Press, USA

“Nietzsche, Perspectivism, Anti-Realism: An Inconsistent Triad”, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, 15:3, 2010 (In press)

“``Deep Ethical Pluralism in Late Foucault,” Minerva--An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Volume 12, November 2008, 102-118.

 “Responding to the Call: Philosophy as Human Wonderment,” Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism (AJournal of the American Humanist Association), 16(1), 27-37, Spring-Summer 2008.

“Virtue Foundherentism”, KRITERION: Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 20, 2006, 14-22.

“Theseus vs. The Minotaur: Finding the Common Thread in the Foucault Chomsky-Debate” Studies in Social and Political Thought, Issue 8, Spring 2003, 67-84.

Current Research activities:

 Nietzsche and Naturalism, Metaphors and Fallacies, the Philosophy of Emotions.

Recent Teaching Activities: Foucault, Introduction to Philosophy, Bioethics, Logic