Faculty & Staff

Drew Leder
Professor of Philosophy
Office: HU 050o
410-617-2325
dleder@loyola.edu
Web page: www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~dleder

Education and Experience

• B.A. – Yale University (Psychology/Philosophy), 1976
• Ph.D. - Philosophy,  State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1987.
• M.D. -Yale University School of Medicine, 1986.

Areas of Specialization

• Cross-cultural Spirituality
• Philosophy of the Body
• Philosophy of Medicine
• Asian Philosophy
• Continental Philosophy

Recent Courses Taught

• PL 216 Asian Thought (Philosophies of Hinduism and Buddhism)
• PL 201 Foundations of Philosophy
• HN 280 Honors - Modern World
• PL 398 Philosophy of Film
• PL 354 East Asian Philosophy (Taoism)
• PL 314 Environmental Ethics
• PL 324 Philosophy of Service (I have a special interest in service-learning teaching)

Selected Publications

• Sparks of the Divine: Finding Inspiration in Our Everyday World, Sorin Books/Ave Maria Press, 2004.
• The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death and Hope (with inmate co-authors, foreword by Cornel West) Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, paperback, 2001.
• Games for the Soul: 40 Playful Ways to Find Fun and Fulfillment in a Stressful World, Hyperion, 1998. Translated into Chinese, forthcoming in Korean.
• Spiritual Passages: Embracing Life's Sacred Journey, Tarcher/Putnam, 1997.
• The Body in Medical Thought and Practice, editor, Kluwer Academic Press, 1992.
• The Absent Body, University of Chicago Press, 1990.