Michael Berman, Associate Professor

Office: GL 273
Extension: 3317; Email: mberman@brocku.ca

Education:
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992-1997, Ph.D. in Philosophy
State University of New York at Binghamton, 1986-1990, Bachelor of Arts in History and Philosophy

Research Specialization:
Continental philosophy (especially M. Merleau-Ponty)
Phenomenology
Asian thought
Comparative philosophy
Philosophy of Religion

Research Interests:
World religions
African philosophy
Islamic thought
Psychoanalytic theory

Teaching Areas:
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology
Comparative philosophy: continental thought and Buddhism
Comparative religions
Empiricism
Logic
Science Fiction
Comic Books

Selected Publications:

"Heroes, Monsters and Values: Philosophy and Sci Fi Films of the 1970s", Michael Berman and Rohit Dalvi, editors, edited anthology for Cambridge Scholars Press (2011).

“The Uses of the Science Fiction Genre”, edited anthology for Cambridge Scholars Press (2008).

"The Thought Space of God: the haunting below the I-Thou relation", The Heythrop Journal, (LIV (2013), 70-76).

"Relations in Altered Carbon (2002)", The International Journal of Humanities, (Volume 8, Number 11, 2011).

"The Happy Accident: Merleau-Ponty and Kant on the Judgment of God", The European Legacy, (16:2, 2233-236, 2011).