Thomas P. Miles. Department of Philosophy Chestnut Hill, MA (617)

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1 Thomas P. Miles Boston College Stokes Hall N359 Department of Philosophy Chestnut Hill, MA (617) EDUCATION Yale University, Department of Philosophy, Directed Studies Bachelor of Arts, Graduated with Distinction in the Major, June 1997 Cambridge University, Clare Hall College for Advanced Study, Department of Philosophy Master s Degree in Philosophy, July 1998 University of Copenhagen, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre Fulbright Scholar, Guest Researcher, January August, 2005 University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy Ph.D, August, 2006 Departmental Nomination for the University s Outstanding Dissertation Award Dissertation Committee: Robert Solomon, Kathleen Higgins, Louis Mackey (d.), Joakim Garff, Paul Woodruff AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE Aesthetics Ethics History of Philosophy 19 th Century Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Medical Ethics BOOK CURRENTLY IN PRINT: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life: A New Method of Ethics, Palgrave/Macmillan Press, Nov REVIEWS OF THE BOOK: Review by Roberto Sirvent for Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 18, Tome III Kierkegaard Secondary Literature (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2015) Review by Carson Webb for Religious Studies Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, p. 144 (September 2014) ARTICLES CURRENTLY IN PRINT: On Nietzsche s Ideal of the Sovereign Individual in International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXXIX/3, Summer Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Reconsidered in Kierkegaard Studies, Yearbook 2007, ed. Cappelørn, Deuser, Söderquist (Walter de Gruyter, 2007). Either/Or Reintroducing an Ancient Approach to Ethics in Kierkegaard Studies, Yearbook 2008, ed. Cappelørn, Deuser, Söderquist (Walter de Gruyter, 2008). Kierkegaard and Dante: Tours of Hell - Mapping the Landscape of Sin and Despair in Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions. (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2008) Kierkegaard and Horace: The Art of Poetry and the Search for the Good Life in Kierkegaard and the Roman World. (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2009) Kierkegaard and Hume: Faith, Reason, and the Ethics of Philosophy in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions. (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2009)

2 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Rival visions of the Best Way of Life in Kierkegaard and Existentialism (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2011) To Be Joy Itself : Kierkegaard on Being Present to Oneself and Others Through Faith Kierkegaard Studies, Yearbook 2011, ed. Shulz, Stewart, Verstrynge, (Walter de Gruyter Press, 2011) Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein: Kierkegaard s Influence on the Origin of Analytic Philosophy in Kierkegaard s Influence on Philosophy, Tome 1 German and Scandinavian Philosophy (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2012) Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion in Kierkegaard Studies, Yearbook 2013, ed. Shulz, Stewart, Verstrynge, (Walter de Gruyter Press, 2013) Book review of The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard, ed. Lippit & Pattison (Oxford University Press, 2013) for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014) The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical in Kierkegaard s Concepts (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing, 2015) Review of Louis Mackey s Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet in Kierkegaard Secondary Literature (Ashgate Ltd. Publishing) FORTHCOMING ARTICLES: Drawing the Knife: Why Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling is Not an Endorsement of Religiously Motivated Violence in Kierkegaard and Political Theology (Wipf & Stock Publishers) Joy, Gratitude, and Life-Affirmation in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in Kierkegaard and Joy in Modernity, ed. Carson Webb and Ed Mooney SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Drawing the Knife: Why Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling is Not an Endorsement of Religiously Motivated Violence APA Pacific Division, Political Theology Group Meeting, Kierkegaard and Political Theology, Vancouver, Canada, April 2015 Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and the Virtues of Philosophy, APA Pacific Division, Kierkegaard Society Group Meeting, Kierkegaard and the Educative Value of Philosophy, Vancouver, Canada, April 2015 Nietzsche on Autonomy, Recovery, and Great Health guest lecture for the Mendel Society, Bioethics division of Boston College s Pre-Medical Society, March Nietzsche s Christology and his (Kierkegaardian) Attack on Christendom 20 th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Birmingham, Great Britain, September Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Love and the Best Way of Life Perspectives on Knowledge Lecture Series, Boston College, April Kierkegaard s Concept and Critique of Individual Autonomy North Texas Philosophical Association Conference, Denton, TX, April Kierkegaard on Individual Autonomy and its Limitations Seventh International Kierkegaard Conference, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf s College, Northfield, Mn., June Kierkegaard and Dante s Inferno Søren Kierkegaard Society USA group meeting at the American Academy of Religion Conference, Chicago, IL, October Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion International Kierkegaard Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2012.

3 Nietzsche on the Virtues of Philosophy North Texas Philosophical Association Conference, Denton, TX, April Nietzsche and Aristotle: Taking Virtue Ethics Beyond Virtue North Texas Philosophical Association Conference, Denton, TX, April To Be Joy Itself : Kierkegaard on Being Present to Oneself and Others Through Faith International Kierkegaard Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Joy and Sovereignty Perspectives on Knowledge Lecture Series, Boston College, April Towards an Ethics of Philosophy Inaugural address of the Colby College Philosophy Symposium, September Nietzsche s Ethics of Philosophy International Symposium on Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life, Philosophy Department, Texas Christian University, April On Solomon s Nietzsche s Scholarship Robert C. Solomon Memorial Conference, Austin, TX. February Either/Or Reintroducing an Ancient Approach to Ethics International Kierkegaard Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August On Nietzsche s Ideal of the Sovereign Individual APA Central Division Meeting, North American Nietzsche Society Group Meeting, April Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life: An Examination of Their Points of Disagreement Søren Kierkegaard Research Center Internal Seminar, Copenhagen University, April Mackey on Kierkegaard s Ethics and the Joy of Faith Conference Wit, Scholar, Mentor: Celebrating the Life and Work of Louis Mackey. University of Texas at Austin, September The Source and Manifestation of Joy in Kierkegaard s Life of Faith Conference on Kierkegaard s The Lilies and the Birds, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen University, April The Despair of the Postscript s Religiousness A, or How Anti-Climacus is anti-climacus Øresund University s Summer Lecture Series Kierkegaard s Postscript, Copenhagen, August HONORS & AWARDS Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant, Boston College Office of International Programs, Grant for Research in Berlin, Germany, the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar, Germany and at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen Summer Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant, Boston College Office of International Programs, Grant for Research at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen and the Wittgenstein Archive of the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Summer Fulbright Fellowship, Danish-American Fulbright Foundation, Full Grant for Spring and Summer 2005 for study at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen Outstanding Teacher Award for , Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Teacher Award for , Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin Jane Stupp Memorial Scholarship for study at Cambridge University, 1997 R. C. Byrd Fellowship for study at Yale University, 1993.

4 TEACHING Boston College: Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), Fall 2006 Present Summer 2015 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Summer 2014 Spring 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Fall 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Ethics, Existentialism and the Good Life (Copenhagen, Denmark) Basic Problems in Philosophy I Ethics, Existentialism and the Good Life (Copenhagen, Denmark) Nietzsche on Ethics and the Virtues of Philosophy (advanced level elective) I I I Nietzsche on Ethics and the Virtues of Philosophy (advanced level elective) I I Albert Camus (graduate level Independent Reading and Research Class) Art, Ethics, and Modernity (advanced level elective) I Nietzsche (graduate level Independent Reading and Research Class) I Nietzsche (graduate level Independent Reading and Research Class) I Southwestern University: Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2004 Spring 2006 Fall 2004 Fall 2004 Spring 2006 Introduction to Ethics Biomedical Ethics Biomedical Ethics Austin Community College: Adjunct Instructor, Summer 2004 Summer 2004 Introduction to Ethics University of Texas: Teaching Assistant, Fall 1999 Spring semesters Plan II Honors Philosophy Phil semesters Introduction to Philosophy Phil semesters Philosophy of Religion Phil semester Contemporary Moral Problems Phil semester Intro. to the Philosophy of the Arts Phil 317K 1 semester Medicine, Ethics and Society Phil 318M 1 semester Existentialism and Phenomenology Phil 366 Cambridge University, Homerton College: Instructor/Tutor, Spring 1998 Spring 1998 Introduction to Western Philosophy (designed and taught)

5 FOREIGN LANGUAGES German Danish Yale: One year introductory, one year intermediate, daily classes Cambridge: One year weekly classes: German for Philosophers University of Texas: Completed First and Second Year Intensive Danish Copenhagen Studieskolen: Completed two intermediate-level classes SERVICE Member of the department s committee to establish new standards for the department s core Philosophy of the Person course (Spring 2014 present) Member of the lecture committee for the department s Fitzgibbons Lecture Series (Spring 2007 present) Publicity coordinator for the Fitzgibbons Lecture Series (Fall 2008 present) Contributor to the Philosophy Department s Philosophy and Film Series (Fall 2012 present) Member of the Research Committee for the department s self-study (Fall 2009)