Meet the Faculty

Michael Morgan

  • Chancellor's Professor, Department of Philosophy
  • Chancellor's Professor, Department of Jewish Studies
  • Chancellor's Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. at University of Toronto, 1978

Contact Information

Sycamore Hall, Rm. 026
(812) 855-0206

Background

Michael Morgan Professor Morgan's interests include the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy and modern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and Jewish philosophy. He has won several teaching awards. Books include: Platonic Piety (Yale, 1990), Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana, 1992), Interim Judaism (Indiana, 2001), and Beyond Auschwitz (Oxford, 2001). He has edited Classics of Moral and Political Theory (Hackett), A Holocaust Anthology (Oxford), translated and edited, with Paul Franks, Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological Writings, and edited The Collected Works of Spinoza (Hackett, 2002). He is currently working on a book on Emmanuel Levinas.

Research Interests

  • Ancient, Modern and Jewish Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion

Courses Recently Taught

  • Response to the Holocaust: Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, Film, Politics and Historiography
  • Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy
  • Alienation & Community in Early 20th century Europe 1900-1940
  • Rosenzweig & Levinas
  • Modern Jewish Philosophy