Dr Robert Plant

Dr Robert Plant The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272798 pref r.plant@abdn.ac.uk pref Room OBG16 (Old Brewery, ground floor)

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Biography

I completed my PhD in 2001. I have been lecturer in philosophy at Aberdeen since 2005.

  

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Research Interests

Wittgenstein (esp. regarding Philosophy of Religion, and On Certainty) 

Continental ethics (esp. Levinas and Derrida)

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Current Research

I am currently working on a number of articles and a book manuscript Wittgesntein on Religion

Authored books:

Wittgenstein and Levinas: Ethical and Religious Thought (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2005)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

'Is the other radically "other"? A critical reconstruction of Levinas' ethics', forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2011-2012)

'The banality of death', forthcoming in Philosophy

'This strange institution called "philosophy": Derrida and the primacy of metaphilosophy', forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2009/2010)

'Welcoming dogs: Levinas and the animal question', forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2009/2010)

'Absurdity, Incongruity and Laughter', Philosophy 84:327 (Jan 2009)

'Playing Games/Playing Us: Foucault on Sadomasochism', Philosophy & Social Criticism (USA), 33:5 (2007)

'On Testimony, Sincerity, and Truth', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory (Special Issue: Trauma, Therapy and Representation), 30:1 (March 2007)

'Perhaps...: Jacques Derrida and Pyrrhonian Scepticism', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Special Issue: Encounters with Ancient Thought), 11:3 (December 2006)

'The Confessing Animal in Foucault and Wittgenstein', Journal of Religious Ethics (USA), 34:4 (2006)

'Apologies: Levinas and Dialogue', International Journal of Philosophical Studies (Ireland), 14:1 (March 2006)

'The Wretchedness of Belief: Wittgenstein on Guilt and Religion Without Recompense', Journal of Religious Ethics (USA), 32:3 (Winter 2004)

'Christ's Autonomous Hand: Simulations on the Madness of Giving', Modern Theology (USA), 20:4 (October 2004)

'The End(s) of Philosophy: Rhetoric, Therapy and Wittgenstein's Pyrrhonism', Philosophical Investigations (UK), 27:3 (July 2004)

'Ethics Without Exit: A Response to C.F. Alford on Levinas and Murdoch', Philosophy and Literature (USA), 27:2 (October 2003)

'Blasphemy, Dogmatism and Injustice: The Rough Edges of On Certainty', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (USA), 54 (2003)

'Our Natural Constitution: Wolterstorff on Reid and Wittgenstein', Journal of Scottish Philosophy (UK), 1:2 (Autumn 2003)

'Doing Justice to the Derrida-Levinas Connection: A Response to Mark Dooley', Philosophy & Social Criticism (USA), 29 (2003)

'Pluralism, Justice and Human Vulnerability: Misappropriations of Wittgenstein', Sapientia, (online journal of Politics and International Relations) 1:4 (December 2000)

'Resisting Silence in the Face of Evil: Re-Thinking the Holocaust, Speaking the Unspeakable with Emmanuel Levinas', Philosophy in the Contemporary World (USA), 7:1 (Spring 2000)

Other publications:

'The Wittgenstein Archive' (with Peter Baumann), Philosophy Now, Issue 58 (Winter 2006)

Review articles:

Levinas and Theology, Michael Purcell, International Journal of Public Theology, 2 (Summer 2008) (with response from Purcell)

Book reviews:

Who's Afraid of Philosophy? Right to Philosophy I, Jacques Derrida, Philosophy in Review (Canada), Vol.XXIII, No.4 (August 2003)

Is It Righteous To Be? Interviews With Emmanuel Levinas, Jill Robbins (ed.), Philosophy in Review (Canada), Vol.XXII, No.6 (December 2002)

The Jewish Derrida, Gideon Ofrat; Arguing with Derrida, Simon Glendinning (ed.); Futures of Jacques Derrida, Richard Rand (ed.), Philosophy in Review (Canada), Vol.XXII, No.3 (June 2002)

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Teaching Responsibilities

Moral Philosophy; Ethical and Religious Themes in Wittgenstein, Levinas and Derrida; Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy and 'Ordinary' Life; The Meaning of Life; Ethics and Aesthetics; Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics and Personal Relationships; Key Themes in Nietzsche; Metaphilosophy; Death; Life, Death and Meaning; Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion.

 

 

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Plant, RC. (in press). 'Levinas and the Holocaust: A Reconstruction'. Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy.
• Plant, RC. (in press). 'Wittgenstein, Religious 'Passion' and Fundamentalism'. Journal of Religious Ethics.
• Plant, RC. (2012). 'Is the other radically 'other'?: A critical reconstruction of Levinas' ethics'. Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol 38, no. 9, pp. 977-995.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0191453712461347
• Plant, RC. (2012). 'Philosophical diversity and disagreement'. Metaphilosophy, vol 43, no. 5, pp. 567-591.
• Plant, RC. (2011). 'Religion, relativism and Wittgenstein's naturalism'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 19, no. 2, pp. 177-209.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2011.561615
• Plant, RC. (2009). 'The banality of death'. Philosophy, vol 84, no. 330, pp. 571-596.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S003181910999012X
• Plant, RC. (2009). 'Absurdity, incongruity and laughter'. Philosophy, vol 84, no. 327, pp. 111-134.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0031819109000060
• Plant, RC. (2007). 'Playing games/playing us: Foucault on sadomasochism'. Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol 33, no. 5, pp. 531-561.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0191453707078913
• Plant, RC. (2006). 'The Confessing Animal in Foucault and Wittgenstein'. Journal of Religious Ethics, vol 34, no. 4, pp. 533-559.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2006.00284.x
• Plant, RC. (2006). 'Perhaps ...: Jacques Derrida and Pyrrhonian scepticism'. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol 11, no. 3, pp. 137-156.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09697250601048606
• Plant, RC. (2006). 'Apologies: Levinas and Dialogue'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 14, no. 1, pp. 79-94.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09672550500445145
• Plant, RC. (2004). 'The Wretchedness of Belief'. Journal of Religious Ethics, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 449-476.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2004.00174.x
• Plant, RC. (2004). 'The End(s) of Philosophy'. Philosophical Investigations, vol 27, no. 3, pp. 222-257.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2004.00225.x
• Plant, RC. (2004). 'Christ's Autonomous Hand'. Modern Theology, vol 20, no. 4, pp. 547-566.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2004.00267.x
• Plant, RC. (2003). 'Ethics Without Exit Levinas and Murdoch'. Philosophy and Literature, vol 27, no. 2, pp. 456-470.
• Plant, RC. (2003). 'Blasphemy, dogmatism and injustice: The rough edges of On Certainty'. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol 54, no. 2, pp. 101-135.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1023/A:1025739719165
• Plant, RC. (2003). 'Doing Justice to the Levinas-Derrida Connection: A response to Mark Dooley'. Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol 29, no. 4, pp. 427-450.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/0191453703294004

Books and Reports

Books

• Plant, RC. (2005). 'Wittgenstein and Levinas: Ethical and religious thought'. Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy, Routledge, Abington, United Kingdom.

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