CH’s CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Charlie Huenemann
Charlie.Huenemann@usu.edu
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: History of modern philosophy (especially Spinoza and Nietzsche)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: History of philosophy generally, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science
EMPLOYMENT:
2010-present Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
2009-present Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
2002-2006 Department Head, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication.
2000-2009 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
1994-2000 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
EDUCATION:
1994 Ph. D, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dissertation: “Spinoza’s Philosophy: Monism, Freedom, and Piety.” Advisor: Edwin Curley.
1989 M.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Thesis: “Two Kinds of Modal Realism.” Advisor: Fabrizio Mondadori.
1987 B.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Phi Beta Kappa.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
(book) God or Nature: Spinoza’s Radical Theology. Under contract with Acumen Publishing.
PUBLICATIONS:
(forthcoming) (invited chapter) “Nietzsche and the Perpsective of Life,” Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, edited by Manuel Dries. Walter de Gruyter Press. Chapter submitted to editor, 12/2010.
(forthcoming) (invited chapter) “But why was he a necessitarian?” Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, edited by Michael Della Rocca. Oxford UP. Chapter submitted to editor, 8/2009.
(forthcoming) (invited chapter) “Nietzsche’s madness,” Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, edited by Ken Gemes and John Richardson. Oxford UP. Chapter submitted to editor, 5/2009.
2010 “Nietzschean Health and the Inherent Pathology of Christianity,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy. Volume 18, number 1 (January 2010), pp. 73-89.
2009 Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart (self published through createspace.com). This book is an introduction to Nietzsche’s life and thought. It is self-published (with createspace.com) due to its original, unorthodox style.
2008 Understanding Rationalism (Acumen Publishing). This volume is part of Acumen’s Understanding Movements in Modern Thought series. The book explores the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. It is aimed at college juniors.
2008 Interpreting Spinoza: critical essays (Cambridge University Press). This is a scholarly anthology with Cambridge UP. The volume is dedicated to Edwin Curley. I contributed the introduction and an essay, “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza.”
2004 “Why Not to Trust Other Philosophers,” American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 41, number 3 (July 2004), pp. 249-258.
2004 “Spinoza and Prime Matter,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, volume 42, number 1 (January 2004), pp. 21-32.
2004 “The Sage Meets the Zombie: Spinoza’s Wise Man and Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind,” Studia Spinozana, volume 14 (1998), pp. 21-33. [Published in 2004]
2001 (invited chapter) “The Middle Spinoza,” in Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, edited by John Biro and Olli Koistinen, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 210-220.
1999 New Essays on the Rationalists. Rocco Gennaro & Charles Huenemann, eds. (Oxford University Press). This included Huenemann, “Geometrical Containment and the Necessity of Finite Modes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” pp. 224-240.
1999 (invited chapter) “Spinoza and the Light of Scripture,” in Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize, edited by Paul Bagley (The New Synthese Historical Library, vol. 47). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 45-66.
1997 “Spinoza’s Free Man,” Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, vol. VI, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 105-135.
1997 “Predicative Interpretations of Spinoza’s Divine Extension,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1 (January 1997), pp. 53-76.
