Professor of Philosophy

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

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Professor Foltz draws on the history of philosophy (especially Ancient Greek, Byzantine, and Russian philosophy) and contemporary European methodologies (especially hermeneutics and phenomenology) in both his teaching and his writing to address issues in environmental philosophy and the philosophy of religion. He has published numerous articles on Heidegger, Russian and Byzantine philosophy, mysticism, and the philosophy of the natural environment, while contributing more than thirty articles to five encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Macmillan), the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale), and the Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Blackwell). He is author of Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature (Humanities Press) and co-editor of Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Indiana). Prof. Foltz directs the Senior Honors Program at Eckerd College, and he has served regularly as Visiting Professor at the St Johns College Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, NM. He has traveled widely and led off-campus programs to the American Southwest, England, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. He has founded or co-founded three professional societies (including the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and the Society for Nature, Philosophy, and Religion) and his writings have been translated into Greek, Arabic, and Portuguese.