Dr. Guy Axtell (gsaxtell@radford.edu) is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, and serves as the critical thinking coordinator of Radford University's new Core A curriculum. He received his Ph.D. in the East/West comparative program at University of Hawaii’i, and his main teaching interests are in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, “STS” or science, technology and society studies, and philosophy of religion. JanusBlog: the Virtue Theory Discussion Forum has links to many of his recent and forthcoming papers in his research areas of epistemology and analytic and comparative philosophy of religion. When not teaching or writing, “Dr. Ax” often seeks his ataraxia through biking, tennis, skiing, windsurfing, and curiously speaking about himself in the third person. Ataraxia: Ancient Greek term for psychic balance and “freedom from disquiet.”

Sampling of recent and forthcoming research:

“Recovering Responsibility,” Logos and Episteme (2011).

“The Dialectics of Objectivity,” Philosophy of History (2012).

“From Internalist Evidentialism to Virtue Responsibilism” in Evidentialism and its Discontents, Trent Dougherty (ed.) 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press

“Three Independent Factors in Epistemology” (with Phillip Olson, VTU’s ASPECT Program), Contemporary Pragmatism, 2010.

“Character-Trait Ascription in Ethics and Epistemology,” in H. Battaly (ed.) Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic. Oxford: Wiley/Broadview Press, 2010 (reprinted from Metaphilosophy (2009).

“Virtue Theoretic Responses to Skepticism”, in Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, John Greco, ed., 2009.

Link to JanusBlog

Dr. Gilburt Goffstein (ggoffste@radford.edu)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. University of Missouri)

Ethics, History of Philosophy, Critical Social Theory

Dr. Joe Jones (jjones39@radford.edu) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Joe was an Air Force brat. His father took the family to the Philippines for two tours, 5 1/2 years, and one tour in Germany, 3 years, and did an unaccompanied year tour in Korea when Joe was 6. When Joe was 17, he went to college at Clemson University, majored in beer, and flunked out. In late 1968, at 19 1/2 and with a 1-A draft classification prior to the lottery, he enlisted for 4 years in the Air Force. Between 1970 and 1972, he spent twenty-one months in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. When he was discharged early, just turned 23, he had spent about ten years abroad, which has affected his view of the world. This view is not so centered on the United States as the views of some folk. Better motivated, Joe tried college again, discovered it comfortable, and became a lifelong student. After eleven years, Florida State University said there were no more degrees he could get and threw him out with a Ph.D. in ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, the history of science, logic, ethics, and a thing called metaphysics. He is still learning and appreciates the chance to speak with students concerning philosophical issues, which he sometimes considers ongoing therapy for himself. He wishes for students to also benefit from the conversations.

Dr. Sharon Hartline (shartlin@radford.edu)
Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook)

Ethics, Applied Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Dr. Glen Martin (gmartin@radford.edu)
Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. CUNY)

Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language, History of Philosophy, East-West Comparative Philosophy, Peace and World Order Studies

Courses I regularly teach are Ethics and Society (PHIL 112), Origins of Philosophy (PHIL 114), Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (PHIL 201), Philosophy of Religion (PHIL 350), Philosophy of Language (PHIL 370), and possibly soon Philosophy of Law. My research and scholarly interests (and passions) continue in the same path that was articulated in my 2005 book Millennium Dawn and developed in my 2008 book Ascent to Freedom.  These interests involve the problem of the transformation of human existence from planetary immaturity and our present suicidal behavior to planetary maturity under rational economic, political, and spiritual principles.   My new book that should be out in 2009 is entitled Planetary Democracy and Human Maturity: The Holistic Dynamic of Spirituality, Nonviolence, Democratic Economics, and Earth Federation. It focuses on the nature of authentic democracy, spirituality, nonviolence and other aspects of the human ascent to maturity, and links maturity with a global social order of peace with justice.

Dr. Martin's Web page
Institute on World Problems

Dr. Kim Kipling
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy (Ph.D. Penn State)

Aesthetics, Existentialism, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy