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Fred Evans received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University after having earned an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and completed a year of Ph.D. work in that field at 福利免费毛片. His dissertation was directed by Professor Edward S. Casey. Evans is currently Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department but still serving on dissertation committees, teaching a graduate course in the fall of 2021 and possibly thereafter, and presenting conference and invited papers, publishing others, and working on a new, single-authored book. Pre-retirement, Evans was Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator for the Center of Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR) at 福利免费毛片. He is the author of Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics (Columbia University, 2019); The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity (Columbia University, 2008); Psychology and Nihilism: A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind (SUNY, 1993); and co-editor (with Leonard Lawlor) of Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh (SUNY, 2000). Evans has published numerous articles and book chapters on figures and issues in continental philosophy, psychology, social and political thought, political aesthetics, and technology. He is currently working on a book addressing the political ethics of contemporary cosmopolitanism. He also worked for five years at the Lao National Orthopedic Center and other positions in Laos, under the auspices of the non-profit NGO, International Voluntary Services, Inc., and taught philosophy for a year at La Universidad del Rosario in Bogot谩, Colombia.

Education

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 1986
  • M.A., Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1977
  • M.A., Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1969
  • B.A., Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1966

 

School

Graduate
  • Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty
  • Philosophy of Michel Foucault
  • Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipus
  • Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition
  • Gilles Deleuze: A Thousand Plateaus
  • Philosophy of Communication: Saussure, Husserl, Derrida, Habermas, Lacan, Bakhtin
  • Language Theory and Continental Philosophy I: Saussure, Lacan, Irigaray, Kristeva
  • Language Theory and Continental Philosophy II: Gadamer, Habermas, Lyotard
  • Language Theory and Continental Philosophy III: Bakhtin
  • Power and Dialogue: Gadamer, Foucault, K枚gler
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Undergraduate
  • Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
  • Basic Philosophical Questions
  • Philosophical Roots of Psychology
  • Integrated Honors Program: Basic Philosophical Questions
  • Later Modern (Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche)
  • Philosophy of Technology

Books:

Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019; paper, 2021.

The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008; paper, 2011.

Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 Notion of the Flesh, eds. Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Psychology and Nihilism: A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Articles and Book Chapters in Philosophy:

  • Co-authored with Greg M. Nielsen, 鈥淢ikhail Bakhtin and Phenomenology,鈥 Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine, eds. (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2024, forthcoming).
  • 鈥淰oice, as a Theme in Phenomenology鈥 (2024), in N. de Warren and T. Toadvine, eds., Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer, Cham.
  • 鈥淐osmopolitanism and Creative Activism in Global Public Art,鈥 a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 鈥淭he Aesthetics of Creative Activism,鈥 eds. Elspeth Tilley and Nick Holm. 81 (2) 2023, XX, 1鈥15.
  • 鈥淒eleuzian Cosmopolitanism: From the Capitalist Axiomatic to the 鈥楥haosmocene鈥,鈥 in Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice, eds. Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023), 227鈥43.
  • 鈥淲hither? Black Lives Matter and the Shape of Democracy,鈥 Soci茅t茅s: Revue Des Sciences Humaines et Sociales. Le num茅ro sur 芦 Fractures sociales 禄, 2020/4 (n掳 150), 99鈥111.
  • 鈥淭he Removal of Confederate Monuments in Public Locations,鈥 Columbia University Press Blog, June 24, 2020.
  • 鈥溌縑oces de la democracia?: ciudadan铆a y arte p煤blico en el Millennium Park de Chicago,鈥 en Cosmopol铆tica, democracia, gobernanza y utop铆a. An谩lisis transdisciplinares en diferentes contextos, ed. Luis Herrera Montero (Coor.), Editorial Centro de Estudios Sociales de Am茅rica Latina 2020, 79鈥117. (Translation of my 鈥淰oices of Democracy? Citizenship and Public Art in Chicago鈥檚 Millennium Park鈥濃攕ee below).
  • 鈥淧ublic Art in Urban Spaces,鈥 Handbook of Philosophy and the City, eds. Sharon Meager and Ronald Sundstrom (New York: Routledge, 2020), 149鈥59.
  • 鈥淢ente cosmopolita: matices en el 鈥榤anifiesto cosmopolita鈥 de Beck,鈥 en Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad (RELACES), No. 31, 2019, 20鈥31.
  • 鈥淎driana Cavarero and the Primacy of Voice,鈥 Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (3), 2018, 475鈥87.
  • 鈥淢arx: Historical Materialism, Ethics, and Communication,鈥 in An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics, eds, Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino (New York: Peter Lang, 2018), 309鈥13.
  • Critical Review of Edward S. Casey, The World on Edge, Indiana University Press, 2017, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Nov. 2017.
  • 鈥淓l cosmopolitismo que viene: Derrida y el pensamiento 鈥榝ronterizo Latinoamericano鈥,鈥 traducido por C茅sar Zamorano D铆az, Revista de Humanidades de Valpara铆so, Chile, A帽o 5 / 2017 / 1er semestre / N掳 9 p谩gs. 49鈥72.
  • 鈥溾楳urmurs鈥 and 鈥楥alls鈥: The Significance of Voice in the Political Reason of Foucault and Derrida,鈥 in Between Foucault and Derrida, eds. Yubraj Aryal, Vernon Cisney, Nicolae Morar (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), 153鈥68.
  • 鈥淭he Dilemma of Diversity: Rawls and Derrida on Political Justice,鈥 in Justice through Diversity? ed. Michael Sweeny (New York: Rowan and Littlefield), 2016, 123鈥55.
  • 鈥淒errida and the 鈥楢utoimmunity鈥 of Democracy,鈥 Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Special SPEP Edition, 30 (3), 2016, 303鈥15.
  • 鈥淭he Dilemma of Public Art鈥檚 Permanence,鈥 Public Art Dialogue, Special Edition on Permanence in Public Art, Guest Editor, Erika Doss, 6 (1), Spring, 2016, 58鈥81.
  • 鈥淒eleuze鈥檚 Political Ethics: A Fascism of the New?鈥 Deleuze Studies 10 (1), 2016, 85鈥99.
  • 鈥淢artin, Derrida, and 鈥楨thical Marxism鈥,鈥 Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2), 2015, 203鈥21.
  • 鈥淐osmopolitanism 鈥楾o Come鈥: Derrida鈥檚 Response to Globalization,鈥 in A Companion to Derrida, eds. Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), 550鈥65.
  • 鈥淓thics and the Voices of the Past,鈥 Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 5 2014, 5 (3), 359鈥73 (a special edition on 鈥楾he Middle Ages and the Holocaust,鈥 eds. N. Caputo and H. Johnson).
  • 鈥淔oucault and the 鈥楤eing of Language鈥,鈥 in The Cambridge-Foucault Lexicon, eds. Leonard Lawlor and John Nole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 236鈥42.
  • 鈥淐itizenship and Public Art: The Political Aesthetics of New York鈥檚 9/11/01 Memorial,鈥 Belmont University Symposium Journal 3, 2013/backdated 2012, 79鈥105.
  • 鈥淭he Clamor of Voices: Neda, Barack, and Social Philosophy,鈥 Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 17 (2), Fall/Automne, 2013, 158鈥77.
  • 鈥淰oices and the 鈥楽pirit of Place鈥,鈥 In Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination, eds. Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), 215鈥24.
  • 鈥淐itizenship and Public Art: Chicago鈥檚 Millennium Park,鈥 in Outrage! Art, Controversy, and Society, ed. Richard Howells, Andreea Ritivoi, Judith Schachter (New York: Palgrave, 2012), 144鈥71.
  • 鈥淐itizenship and Public Art: The Political Aesthetics of New York鈥檚 9/11/01 Memorial,鈥 Belmont University Symposium Journal 3, 2013/backdated 2012, 79鈥105.
  • 鈥9/11: The 鈥楥lash of Civilizations鈥 and Cultural Rights,鈥 Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 6.14, Winter, 2011.
  • 鈥溾楿nnatural Participations鈥: Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, and Environmental Ethics,鈥 Philosophy Today 54, 2010, 142鈥52. (SPEP Supplemental Volume 35 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, eds. Cynthia Willett and Leonard Lawlor).
  • 鈥淒eleuze, Bakhtin and the 鈥楥lamour of Voices鈥,鈥 Deleuze Studies 2(2), 2008, 178鈥200.
  • 鈥淟a sociedad de todas las voces: Los zapatistas, Bajt铆n y los derechos humanos,鈥 traducci贸n por Juan Carlos Grijalva, Alteridad (revista acad茅mica, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educaci贸n, Universidad Polit茅cnica Salesiana, Ecuador), No. 5, Nov. 2008, 44鈥62 (Spanish trans. of published English versi贸n).
  • 鈥淚ris Marion Young and 鈥業ntersecting Voices鈥,鈥 Philosophy Today 52, 2008, 10鈥18. (SPEP Supplemental Volume 33 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, eds. Peg Birmingham and James Risser).
  • Entries on 鈥淕enealogical Critique鈥 and 鈥淭he Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research,鈥 for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, ed. Lisa M. Given (London: Sage Publications, Inc.), 369鈥71, 73鈥74, 2008.
  • 鈥淐hiasm and Flesh,鈥 in Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, eds. Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2008, 184鈥93.
  • (with Barbara McCloskey) 鈥淪ixties Redux? A Report from the 2004鈥05 Carnegie International (or, Kutlug Ataman鈥檚 Provocation),鈥 Kunst und Politik 9, 2008, 175鈥81.
  • 鈥淐itizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko鈥檚 The Homeless Projection.鈥 In Acts of Citizenship, eds. Engin Isin and Greg Nielsen. London: Zed Books, 2008, 227鈥46.
  • (with Barbara McCloskey) 鈥淭he New Solidarity: A Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization,鈥 Toward a New Socialism, ed. Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, 483鈥96.
  • 鈥淟yotard, Foucault, and 鈥楶hilosophical Politics,鈥欌 International Journal of the Humanities 3, 2006, 85鈥98.
  • Entries on 鈥淧sychology,鈥 鈥淐ognitive Science,鈥 鈥淏akhtin,鈥 鈥淗ubert Dreyfus,鈥 鈥淒ialogism,鈥 and 鈥淗eteroglossia/Monoglossia鈥 for the Edinburgh University Press Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2005, and for A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, Yale University Press, 2006.
  • 鈥淢ulti-Voiced Society: Philosophical Nuances on Salman Rushdie鈥檚 Midnight's Children,鈥 Florida Journal of International Law 16:3, 2004, 727鈥41.
  • 鈥淐yberspace and the Concept of Democracy,鈥 Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Philosophy 4:1, 2004, 71鈥101. (Originally published in First Monday.)
  • 鈥淲itnessing and the Social Unconscious,鈥 Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Philosophy 3:2, Fall 2003, 57鈥83.
  • 鈥淟yotard, Bakhtin, and Radical Heterogeneity,鈥 Continental Philosophy 8, 2003, 61鈥74.
  • 鈥淏akhtin, Communication, and the Politics of Multiculturalism.鈥 Reprinted in Mikhail Bakhtin: Sage Masters of Modern Social Thought, vol. IV, ed. Michael E. Gardiner. London: SAGE Publications, 2003, 271鈥93. (Originally published in Constellations.)
  • 鈥淒ialogisme et droits de l鈥橦omme au Chiapas,鈥 trans. Louis Jacob, Cahiers de recherche sociologique no. 36, 2002, 75鈥104 (translation of my 鈥淰oices of Chiapas鈥).
  • 鈥淕enealogy and the Problem of Affirmation in Nietzsche, Foucault, and Bakhtin,鈥 Philosophy and Social Criticism 27:3, 2001, 41鈥65.
  • 鈥淐yberspace and the Concept of Democracy,鈥 First Monday 5 (10) (October 2000) URL: (a peer-reviewed electronic publication).
  • 鈥淰oices of Chiapas: The Zapatistas, Bakhtin, and Human Rights,鈥 Philosophy Today 42, 2000, 196鈥210. (SPEP Supplemental Volume 25 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ed. Linda Mart铆n Alcoff and Walter Brogan).
  • 鈥溾楥haosmos鈥 and Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 Philosophy of Nature,鈥 Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty 2, 2000, 63鈥82.
  • 鈥淭he Value of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 Philosophy and the Modernism/Postmodernism Debate鈥 (with Leonard Lawlor); critical introductory essay to Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh, ed. Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000, 1鈥20.
  • 鈥淢erleau-Ponty, Lyotard and the Basis of Political Judgment,鈥 in Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Across the Continental-Analytic Divide, ed. Lawrence Hass and Dorothea Olkowski. New York, NY: Prometheus Press, 2000, 253鈥74.
  • 鈥溾楽olar Love鈥: Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and the Fortunes of Perception,鈥 Continental Philosophy Review 31:2, 1998, 171鈥93.
  • 鈥淰oices, Oracles, and the Politics of Multiculturalism,鈥 Symposium 2:2, 1998, 179鈥89.
  • 鈥淏akhtin, Communication, and the Politics of Multiculturalism,鈥 Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 5:3, 1998, 403鈥23.
  • 鈥淭echnology as Art and the 鈥楽pheres of Freedom and Necessity,鈥欌 Research in Philosophy and Technology 14, 1994, 219鈥34.
  • 鈥淢arx, Nietzsche, and the 鈥榁oices of Democracy,鈥欌 in Paradigms in Political Theory: Marxism-Liberalism-Postmodernism, ed. Steven Jay Gold, Iowa State University Press, Spring 1993, 79鈥97.
  • 鈥淭o 鈥業nformate鈥 or 鈥楢utomate鈥: The New Information Technologies and Democratization of the Work Place,鈥 The Journal of Social Theory and Practice 17:3, 1991, 409鈥39.
  • 鈥淐ognitive Psychology, Phenomenology, and the 鈥楥reative Tension of Voices,鈥欌 Philosophy and Rhetoric 24:2, 1991, 105鈥27.
  • 鈥淟anguage and Political Agency: Derrida, Marx, and Bakhtin,鈥 The Southern Journal of Philosophy 28:4, 1990, 249鈥66.
  • 鈥淢arx, Nietzsche, and the 鈥楴ew Class,鈥欌 Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4:3, 1990, 505鈥24.
  • 鈥淢arx, Nietzsche, y 鈥楲a Nueva Clase,鈥欌 trad. por Magdalena Holguin, Ideas y Valores num. 74鈥75, Agosto-Diciembre, 1987, Publicacion de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot谩, Colombia, 81鈥98.

Translations in Philosophy:
  • Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard, 鈥淥n the Strength of the Weak,鈥 in Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard, Toward the Post-Modern, ed. Robert Hurley and Mark Roberts, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1993, 62鈥72.
  • Mikel Dufrenne, 鈥淚ntentionality and Aesthetics,鈥 in Mikel Dufrenne, In the Presence of the Sensuous: Essays in Aesthetics, ed. Dennis Gallagher and Mark Roberts, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1987, 3鈥12.
  • With Hugh J. Silverman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 鈥淭he Experience of Others,鈥 in 鈥淢erleau-Ponty and Psychology,鈥 a special issue of the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 18 (1, 2, & 3), 1985, 33鈥63.

Inter-Disciplinary Publications:
  • 鈥淚ntegrating Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture: Report on the Biopesticides Conference Workshop,鈥 (with Anne K. Hollander and Alan Wood), in National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Report 1: Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture: Policy Alternatives, ed. June Fessenden MacDonald (Ithaca, NY: Boyce Thompson Institute, 1989), vol. 1, 14鈥20.
  • 鈥淩esearch and Socio-Economic Rehabilitation Concerning the Handicapped in Laos,鈥 in M. Barber and A. Dore, eds., Sangkhom Khady San: Colloques en Sciences Humaines, Vientiane, Laos, 1974, 65鈥72.
  • 鈥淟ao Village Study: Economic, Social and Cultural Factors Related to Community Development in Tasseng Xieng Mene,鈥 a research monograph prepared for the Lao Government/International Voluntary Services, Inc., 1971; a copy of this monograph is included in the Cornell University South East Asian Studies Microfilm Library.