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Dr. Alexander E. Hooke

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Dr. Alexander E. Hooke
Professor of Philosophy

Location: The Coop
Phone: 443-334-2294
Email Address: f-hooke@mail.vjc.edu

EDUCATION
B.S., Towson University
M.A., West Chester State College
Ph.D., University of Missouri

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Encounters with Alphonso Lingis (Lexington, 2003); Co-Editor

Virtuous Persons, Vicious Deeds: Introductory Readings in Ethics (Mayfield, 1999), Editor

Instructor's Manual for Virtuous Persons, Vicious Deeds (Mayfield, 1999)

Articles
"Silence, Sound and Sarcasm in The Maltese Falcon" Humanities/AITIA (Forthcoming)

"The Original Magic Show" Basketball Times (December 2006)

"The Pain Beyond Law" The Long Term View (Spring 2006; Vol. 6, 4)

"Justice and Biology, Revisited" Philosophy Now (January/February 2005)

"Virtue Ethics" Encyclopedia for Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham (MacMillan, 2005)

"Michel Foucault" Encyclopedia for Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham, (MacMillan, 2005)

"The Most Silent of Men: Nietzsche's Other Madness" Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (Winter, 2003, 34/1)

"Alphonso Lingis's We - A Collage, Not a Collective" Diacritics (Winter 2003, 31/4)

"We Envious Ones" Humanities AITIA (Fall, 2003, 24/3)

"Silent Communities: Focault and Lingis on the End of Philosophy" in Encounters with Alphonso Lingis, ed. Hooke and Fuchs (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2003)

"Faces For a Philosophy of the Morning: Alphonso Lingis and a Wanderer's Will to Truth," Philosophy Today, (Winter, 1998)

"An Ethic of Accompanying the Dying: Reflections on the Work of Alphonso Lingis," Philosophy Today, (Supplement, 1998)

"Spectacles of Morality, Spectacles of Truth" International Studies in Philosophy, (Spring, 1998)

"Crime, Theory, and Science: A Rejoinder to Anarchic Criminology" Social Pathology, co-author (January 1997)

"Training Police in Professional Ethics: Violence and the Ethos of Distrust" Contemporary Journal of Criminal Justice, (August, 1996)

"Existentialism and Ad Hominen Arguments" Argumentation: Proceedings of Third Annual ISSA Conference, (University of Amsterdam, 1996), Vol. 2

"Blind Justice Versus the Civilizing Eye: Sartre and Foucault on the Paradox of Race, Crime, and Justice" Contemporary Journal of Criminal Justice, (Spring 1992, 8/2)

"Tortuous Logic and Tortured Bodies: Why is Ad Baculum a Fallacy?" Proceedings of ISSA Conference, (University of Amsterdam, 1991)

"Convicts, Deviants, and Flawed Utopias" Taking Sides: Clashing Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, ed. R.C. Monk (Dushkin Publishing Co., 1989)

"The Order of Others: Is Foucault's Antihumanism Against Human Action?" Political Theory, February, 1987, (Reprinted in Michael Foucault: Critical Assessments, Vol. 111, ed. Barry Smart (Routledge, 1994)

"Self-Esteem and the Second Principle of Rawls" Leviathan, ed. Bien and Robinson (Klare Ltd., Allentown, PA, 1986)

"On the Genealogy of Foucault" Structures of Knowing, ed. R.C. Monk (University Press of America, 1986)

Essays and Reviews
Review of The First Person Singular, by Alphonso Lingis (Northwestern University Press, 2007), for Philosophy In Review (Forthcoming)<

Review of Animal Philosophy: Ethics and Identity, ed. Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco (Continuum) for Parallax 38 (2006)

"'Big House' Gaines: His noble way dealt bigotry a beating" Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, April 2005

"Religion and Science do have Something in Common" Baltimore Chronicle, Fall 2005

"In Fiction and Reality, Terrorists Don't Always Fit Profile" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, March 2005

The Mayor is not Overstating the Power of Art" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, November 2004

"Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions: An Interview with Alphonso Lingis." In Encounters with Alphonso Lingis, ed. Hooke and Fuchs (Lexington Books, 2003)

"Let it Be, Paul" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, October 2003

"A Day to Honor Bearers of Secrets" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, April 2003

"The Weapons of Greatness" Commentary; Baltimore Chronicle, March 2003

"John Rawls, An Appreciation" Commentary; Baltimore Chronicle, December 2002

"Are We Willing to Risk our Flesh and Blood?" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, October 2002 (Reprinted: Miami Herald, Commondreams, Virginia Pilot)

"Character Education Cannot be Schooled" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, August 2002

"A Silent End to Memorials?" Baltimore Chronicle, September 2002

"Secularism, Too, Requires Some Faith" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, January 2002

"A City in Chaos?" Commentary; Baltimore Chronicle, September 2001

Review of Alphonso Lingis's The Imperative, Continental Philosophy Review (August 2001)

"Shooting Down Law and Order" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, May 2001

"An Endless Punishment?" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, March 2001

"To Choose to Die on One's Own Terms," Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, December 1996)

"Superbowl: Roman Spectacle at any Price" Baltimore Sunday Sun/Perspective, January 1995

"In the Right Direction?" Op-Ed; Baltimore Evening Sun, January 1995

Essay Review of Bruce DiCristina's Method in Criminology: A Philosophical Primer, Social Pathology, co-author, Fall 1995

"Needlepark Zoo" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, March 1992

Book Review of Mark Warren's Nietzsche and Political Thought (MIT Press, 1988) Political Theory, August 1990

"God = Comic" Op-Ed; Baltimore Sun, November 1986

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 1994)
"Biologies and Justice" Towson University Annual Philosophy Conference, October 2004

"Tomorrow's Justice? Biologies and Criminal Bodies" World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, August 2003

Keynote Speaker for Towson Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, May 2003, "Pet Subjects"

"We Envious Ones" Towson University Annual Colloquium, March 2000, The Work of John Rawls

"In Other Words: Foucault and Lingis on Silent Communities" Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Columbia, Missouri, March 1998

"An Ethic of Accompanying the Dying" Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Kentucky, October 1997

"Faces for a Philosophy of the Morning: Alphonso Lingis and a Wanderer's Will to Truth" Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Kansas City, April 1996

"Spectacles of Morality, Spectacles of Truth" National Conference in Honor of Nietzsche's 150th Birthday, Goucher College, Fall 1994

"Nietzscheans," Towson University, Fall 1994

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• NEH Study Grant, "Nietzsche on Ascetic Ideals," Summer 1995
• Sabbatical Leave, Fall Semester, 1995
• NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, "Modern Moral Philosophy" under Jerome B. Schneewind, The Johns Hopkins University, 1992
• Project Director, Institution Grant from NEH, 1990
• Grant Writer, Institutional Grant for National Endowment for the Humanities, Project Funded, 1989
• NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, "The Postmodern Turn: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Rorty" under Bernd Magnus, University of California-Riverside, 1987
• NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, "Interpretation and Genealogy in Political Thought" under Professor William E. Connolly, Univeristy of Massachusetts, 1984

COLLEGE SERVICES

• Chair, Honor Society - Alpha Chi
• Chair, Honor Society - Phi Theta Kappa
• Co-Chair, Annual Undergraduate Conference at Villa Julie College
• Member of Search Committees: President of VJC; Dean of Arts and Sciences; Chair of Humanities
• Member of Curriculum Review Committee, 1999
• Presentations for College-wide symposia, including: "The Other Child and Juvenile Justice," for Faculty Forum: "Humanity's Myth of Humanity" for Millennium Course; "Passion of Justice" for first Annual Faculty/Student Symposium

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Ethics
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Introduction to Logic
• Patterns of Thought: Human Nature
• Logic, Language, and Thought
• Professional Ethics
• Philosophical Issues in Technology
• Aesthetics
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Philosophical Problems: Self-Knowledge
• Philosophical Problems: Bodies Sacred and Profane
• Philosophical Problems: Love
• Philosophical Figures: Plato
• Philosophical Figures: Existentialists
• Philosophical Figures: Nietzsche
• Self and Other
• Troubled Truths: Fact, Fantasy, and Fiction (Honors)
• The Beatles: A Musical and Cultural Event (Interdisciplinary)
• Sports (Interdisciplinary)
• Pleasures & Pains (Interdisciplinary)
• Human(e) Nature(s)
• The Face (Interdisicplinary)

Graduate Courses (Ecumenical Institute)

• Social Justice and Modern Thought
• Philosophical Critiques of Christianity

SUPERVISION OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
"A Practically Real Fantasy" JoAnn Benzing, in Critical Thinking and the Media (Institute for Critical Thinking: Montclair University Press, 1995)

"High - Risk and the Socratic Method: Confronting the AIDS Crisis," Jeanine L. Dilly The National Honors Report (SVIII, 1) * Received award as one of the top three papers in the national contest, Spring 1997)

"Truth Through Taboo: The Transgression of Death," Jason Supenski, Proceedings of International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Tufts University, 1998

"Ethics and the Pharmacist" Chris Buchar, Maryland Pharmacist, Spring 1995

"Computers and Recent Debates on Artificial Intelligence," Chris Engel Kalaidescope,the Student Magazine for Valdosta State, 1996

"Sacred Cuts" Lisa Howe, Proceedings of Virginia Humanities Conference, 1997