Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: HU 050F
410-617-2500
fcunning@loyola.edu

Education and Experience

• B.S. Fairfield University (1966)
• M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University (1968, 1974)
• M.B.A. Loyola (1991)
• Research Fellow, Associate Research Scientist, Biology Department, Johns Hopkins University (1978-80)

Administrative Duties

• Department Chair (1973-78)
• Director of January Term (1974-78)
• Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs (1986-2000)
• Acting Director, Center for the Humanities (2001-02; 2005-06)
• Acting Director, Honors Program (2003-05)

Areas of Specialization

Plato, American Pragmatism, Process Philosophy, Bioethics

Recent Courses Taught

• PL201 Foundations of Philosophy
• PL202 Philosophical Perspectives: Project of Modernity
• HN220 Honors: The Ancient World
• HN260 Honors: Renaissance to Modern
• HN280 Honors: The Modern World
• NH300 Honors: Junior Seminar
• PL311 Bioethics
• PL366 Studies in Plato
• PL 390 American Philosophy
• PL 394 Process Philosophy

Selected Publications

• "Altizer's Understanding of the Death of God," Philosophy Today, Vol. 13 No. 1/4 (Spring 1969), 48-59.
• "Plat Archaic or Modern Man?", Thought, Vol. L, No. 199 (December 1976), 400-417.
• "Mimesis: A Theory of Limited Scope for Plato," University of Portland Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 3-15.
• "Writing Philosophy: Sequential Essays and Objective Tests," College Composition and Communication, Vol. XXXVI (May 1985), 166-172.
• "The Particular Problems of Science for Humanists," in The Tradition in Modern Times: Graduate Liberal Studies Today, Charles B. Hands, ed. (New York: University Press of America, 1988), pp. 91-98.