Lee Hardy, Professor, Philosophy
616-526-6417
lhardy@calvin.edu
Hiemenga Hall 347
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
PhD, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 1987
MA, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1981
MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 1979
BA, Philosophy, Trinity Christian College,1976
Courses
Research Interests
Phenomenology, Early Modern Philosophy, Cultural History of Urbanism
Books
The Fabric of this World (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990).
Recent Publications/Presentations
"Kant’s Reidianism: the Role of Common Sense in Kant’s Epistemology of Religious Belief,” forthcoming in an anthology from Walter De Gruyter.
"Hume’s Defense of True Religion,” forthcoming in an anthology from Notre Dame University Press.
"Nature and Nature’s God: The Religious Background of the Garden City Movement,” in Christian Scholars Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4, (Summer 2009), pp. 435-456.
"Context and Temporality: Heidegger’s View of the Person,” in Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, edited by Kelly James Clark and Chen Xia, Sichuan University Press, 2005, pp. 234-248 [in Chinese].
"How to Destroy the World Without Hurting Anyone: The Existential Import of Husserl’s Idealism,” in Fenomenologica Hoje, edited by R. T. De Souza and N. F. De Oliveira, (Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2001), pp. 121-135.
"Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche’s Critique of Knowledge,” in Christian Philosophy and Postmodern Thought, edited by Merold Westphal, (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999)
Hobbies and Interests
Urban design, graphic design, photography