Dr. Aiken's Archival Nooks & Crannies

EARNED DEGREES

1995 - Docteur d'Etat ès Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and the History of Ideas (Nice): –“La croyance comme présupposé herméneutique.”

1981 - Docteur de Troisième Cycle in Philosophy (Strasbourg): –“La Dimension philosophique de la tragédie.”

1979 - Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in French and Comparative Letters (Strasbourg): –“La notion du tragique chez Nietzsche.” 

1978 - Master of Arts in Humanities (Literature, Philosophy, & Theology).  

1977 - Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies, Greek & Hebrew.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS  

• "On the Death of God. A Post-mortem Reflection on a 'Life'" To be published in 2019 in the Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte ZRGG 71,3 (Brill: https://brill.com/view/journals/zrgg/71/3/article-p285_5.xml).

•  "Philosophy, Archaeology and the Bible. Is Emperor Julian’s Contra Galilaeos a Plausible Critique of Christianity?" Published in the "Journal of Late Antique Religion and Culture" (JLARC, Vol 11, 2017, 1-37).

• TALK NOTES: "The Philosophical Foundations of Democracy. The History of an Idea." November 212, 2012, Theodor 6, 16.00-17.00, Lecture for the Political Society.

• "Skepticism, Stoicism, and the Jeffersonian Model"_The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 8, 2007.

• "Nietzsche's Zarathustra: The Misreading of a Hero"_Nietzsche-Studien, Band 35, 2006. 

• "History Undone. The Appropriation of Thucydides"_Zeitschrift fuer Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG, 77, 4 (2005), J. Brill), 2005. Another link: philpapers.org

• "Nietzsche and his Zarathustra: A Western Poet's Transformation of an Eastern Priest and Prophet"_Zeitschrift fuer Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG 55, 4 (2003), J. Brill), 2003.

• "Praxis Hermeneutika A Study in the Obscuring of the Divine: Mists and Clouds in Homer's Iliad"_Existentia, Vol. XI, pp. 277-296, 2001.

• "Hell, Hades and Other Badlands. The Relevance of Afterlife Traditions to Ethical Credibility. An East/West dialogue"_Insider Journal. Thoughts and Ideas from Faculty and Staff within the Ferris Community, May2001. 

• "Scientific Empiricism and the Philosophical Inquiry. A Case for the Speculative Methodology"-1997(?). 

• "Praxis and Technology. Or the Stalemate Between Knowing and Doing" (Panel Presentation_1997). 

• "Hermeneia. An Anatomy of History and Ab-wesenheit"_The Library of Living Philosophers (LLP), Vol on The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, ed. Lewis E. Hahn, Open Court, Chicago, 1996.

• "History, Truth and the Rational Mind. Why it is Impossible to Separate Myth from History"_Theologische Zeitschrift, The University of Basel, 1991. 

• "Essence and Existence, Transcendentalism and Phenomenalism: Aristotle's Answers to the Questions of Ontology"  Review of Metaphysics, Vol.45, No. 1, Sept. 1991.

• The Search for Truth. A Textbook for Transcendental Philosophy. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, European University Studies, 1988.

• A Philosophy of Ethics. The Birth of Morals at the Crossroads of Myth and History. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, European University Studies, 1988.