Dr Pamela Anderson
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Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford pamela.anderson@regents.ox.ac.uk Regent’s Park College 'Philosophical Links to Sweden' Research InterestsPhilosophy of Religion (including Continental and Feminist Philosophy), Kant, Paul Ricoeur, Michèle Le Doeuff |
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Career & Education
MA & D Phil, University of Oxford
| 1997-2001 | Reader in Philosophy of Religion, Department of Philosophy, University of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear |
| 1993-1997 | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sunderland. |
| 1990-91 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 |
| 1986-1990 | Tutor in Modern Philosophy & Christian Ethics, Mansfield College, Oxford |
| 1989 | DPhil thesis completed on Kant and Ricoeur, supervised by Alan Montefiore, Balliol College |
Publications
Single Authored Books:
Ricoeur and Kant: Philosophy of the Will (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993), 147pp.
A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) 287pp.
A Philosophy of Love: ‘The Heart Has Its Reasons’ ( Oxford: One World Press, forthcoming)
God, Goodness and Gender (under review by the publisher).
Edited Books:
Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings, edited with Beverley Clack ( London: Routledge, 2004), 272pp.
New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate. edited by Pamela Sue Anderson; commissioned as part of a Series in Feminist Philosophy; ( Amsterdam/ New York: Springer Press, 2009)
Michèle Le Doeuff: A Woman Philosopher in Dialogue (Introduction to and Interviews with Le Doeuff; translation in progress).
Edited Journal: Single Special Issue :
Women’s Philosophy Review , no. 29, Special Issue on ‘Philosophy of Religion’ edited with Harriet A. Harris (2002), 110pp. [published byUK Society for Women in Philosophy] ISSN 1369-4324
Articles in Refereed Journals
‘Paul Ricoeur’s Aesthetics: Tradition and Innovation’, Bulletin de la société americaine de philosophie de langue francaise, edited by David Stewart, III/3 (1991): 207-220.
‘Ricoeur and Hick on Evil: Post-Kantian Myth’, Contemporary Philosophy, XIV/6 (1992): 15-20.
‘A Question of Personal Identity’, The Personalist Forum VIII/1 (Spring 1992): 55-68.
‘Having It Both Ways: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic of Self’, The Oxford Literary Review: ‘Experiencing the Impossible’. Edited by Timothy Clark and Nicholas Royle, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (1993): 227-252
‘Myth, Mimesis and Multiple Identities: Feminist Tools for Transforming Theology', Literature and Theology, 10, 2 (June 1996), 112-130.
'Tracing Sexual Difference: Beyond the Aporia of the Other', Sophia: Journal of Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion and Ethics 38, 1 (March-April 1999): 54-73.
‘Canonicity and Critique: A Feminist Defence of a Post-Kantian Critique’, Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory and Culture, vol. 13 (September 1999), 201-10; translated into Hungarian, ‘Kanonisag es kritika: egy posztkantianus kritika feminista vedelme’, in Korunk, XI, 5 (2000, Majus), 67-74.
‘Az interpretaciok konfliktusa feminista olvasatban’, trans. B. I. Jozsef, Korunk, XI/10 (2000, Oktober): 83-91.
'Sacrificed Lives: Mimetic Desire, Sexual Difference and Murder', Journal of Cultural Values, 4 (April 2000): 216-227.
‘A Case for a Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Transforming Philosophy’s Imagery and Myths’, Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1 (2000): 1-35.
'Standpoint: Its Proper Place in A Realist Epistemology,' Journal of Philosophical Research, xxvi (2001): 131-53.
‘Gender and The Infinite: On the Aspiration to Be All There Is’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Fifth Anniversary Issue (2001): 191-212.
‘Autonomy, Vulnerability and Gender’, Feminist Theory, 4(2) special issue on Ethical Relations: Agency, Autonomy and Care. Edited by Sasha Roseneil and Linda Hogan (August 2003): 149-164.
‘Can We Love as God Loves?’ Theology & Sexuality 12,2 (January 2006): 143-64.
‘Divinity, Incarnation and Intersubjectivity: On Ethical Formation and Spiritual Practice’, in Philosophy Compass 1/3 (2006) : 335-356; 10.111/j 1747-9991 .2006.00025.x )
‘ Life, Death and (Inter)-Subjectivity: Realism and Recognition in Continental Philosophy, International Journal of Philosophy of Religion 60: 1-3 (2006): 41-59. Special edition: Issues in Continental Philosophy of Religion: DOI 10.1007/s11153-006-0013-6
‘Feminist Challenges to Conceptions of God: Exploring Divine Ideals’, Philosophia 35 (2007): 361-370.
Chapters in Edited Books
‘Narrative Identity and the Mythico-Poetic Imagination,’ in David Klemm and William Schweiker. Eds. Meanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993), pp. 195-204.
‘Wrestling with Strangers: Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur on the Other,’ Talking It Over: Perspectives on Women and Religion (1993-1995). Edited by Alison E. Jasper and Alastair G. Hunter (Glasgow: Trinity St Mungo Press, 1996), pp. 129-149.
'Re-reading Myth in Philosophy', in Morny Joy. ed. Paul Ricoeur and Narrative: Context and Contestation (Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1997), pp. 51-68.
'"Abjection... the Most Propitious Place For Communication": Celebrating the Death of the Unitary Subject', Kathleen O'Grady, Ann Gilroy and Janette Gray. eds. Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 189-230.
'Writing on Exiles and Excess: Toward a New Form of Subjectivity', in Andrew Hass and Heather Walton. eds. Self/Same/Other: Revisioning the Subject in Literature and Theology ( Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 106-24.
‘A Feminist Ethic of Forgiveness’, in Alistair McFadyen and Marcel Sarot. eds. Forgiveness and Truth, with an Introduction by Alistair McFadyen. Explorations in Contemporary Theology Series ( London: T & T Clark, 2001), pp. 145-156.
‘Gender and The Infinite: On the Aspiration to Be All There Is’, reprinted in Eugene Thomas Long. ed. Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), pp. 191-212.
‘Myth and Feminist Philosophy’, in Kevin Schilbrack. ed. Thinking Through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives ( London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 101-122.
‘Ricoeur’s Reclamation of Autonomy: Unity, Plurality and Totality’, in John Wall, William Schweiker and W. David Hall. eds. Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought ( New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 15-31.
‘Ineffable Knowledge and Gender’, in Philip Goodchild. ed. Rethinking Philosophy of Religion: Approaches from Continental Philosophy, series edited by John Caputo ( New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), pp. 162-183.
‘Feminism in Philosophy of Religion’, in Deane-Peter Baker and Patrick Maxwell (eds), Explorations in Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion ( Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2003), pp. 189-205.
A revised version of this essay to be reprinted in Chad Meister (ed), The Philosophy of Religion Reader ( New York: Routledge, 2008).
‘Ethics Within the Limits of Post-Ricoeurian Kantian Hermeneutics’, and ‘Ethics, Hermeneutics and Politics: A Critical Standpoint on Memory’, in Jeffrey F. Keuss. ed. The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands on Hermeneutics ( Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2004), pp. 9-28 and 109-126, respectively.
‘An Epistemological-Ethical Approach to Philosophy of Religion: Learning to Listen’, In Anderson & Clack. eds. Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings ( London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 87-102.
‘”Moralizing” Love in Philosophy of Religion’, in Jerald T. Wallulis and Jeremiah Hackett. eds. Philosophy of Religion for a New Century (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), pp. 227-242.
‘Des contes dits au féminin: pour une éthique de nouveaux espaces’, in Alban Cain. ed. Espace(s) public(s), espace(s) privées: Enjeux et partages, Université de Cergy-Pontoise CICC ( Paris, France: L’Harmattan, 2004), pp. 43-52.
’What’s Wrong with the God’s Eye Point of View: A Constructive Feminist Critique of the Ideal Observer Theory’, in Harriet A. Harris and Christopher J. Insole. eds. Faith and Philosophical Analysis: A Critical Look at the Impact of Analytical Philosophy on the Philosophy of Religion ( Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2005), pp. 85-99.
‘Conflicts in Virginia Woolf: ‘Our Collective Historical Experience’, in Odile Boucher-Rivalain. ed. Litterature et conflit: Enjeux et representation ( Paris, France: L’Harmattan, 2006), pp. 131-150.
‘Un-Selfing in Love: A Contradiction in Terms’, in Lieven Boeve, Joeri Schrijvers, Wessel Stoker and Hendrik M. Vroom (eds) Faith and Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited, Currents of Encounter series, 30 ( Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 243-267.
‘Redeeming Truth, Restoring Faith in Reason: A Feminist Response to the Post-modern Condition of Nihilism’, in Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Frank Parsons. eds. Redeeming Truth: Considering Faith in Reason ( London: SCM Press, 2007), pp. 60-84.
‘Liberating Love’s Capabilities: On the Wisdom of Love,’ in Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis Benson (eds), Transforming Philosophy and Religion ( Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008), Chapter 13, pp. 201-226.
‘The “Post”-Age of Belief: Wither or Whither Christianity’, in Lisa Isherwood and Kathleen McPhillips. Eds. Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Approach. ( Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2008), Chapter 2, pp. 25-38.
‘Transcendence and Feminist Philosophy: On Avoiding Apotheosis’, in Gillian Howie et al., Women and the Divine: Touching Transcendence ( New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2009), pp. 27-54.
Essays in Edited Anthologies, Companions or Encyclopedia
'Introduction to Julia Kristeva', in Graham Ward. ed. The Postmodern God (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp 215-23.
'Identity', in Serinity Young. ed. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, Vol. 1 (New York: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 449-51.
'Philosophy of Religion', in Serinity Young. ed. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 775-7.
‘An Ethics of Memory: Promising, Forgiving and Yearning’, in Graham Ward. ed. Companion to Postmodern Theology ( Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 231-48.
‘Feminism and Philosophy,’ in Sarah Gamble. ed. The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism ( London/ New York: Routledge, 2001), chapter 13.
‘Feminist Theology as Philosophy of Religion’, in Susan Frank Parsons. ed. Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology ( Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 40-59.
‘Postmodernism and Religion’, in Stuart Sim. ed. The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism, second edition ( London/ New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 45-50; also the contribution by Anderson includes entries on several individual names and terms (see Part II)
‘Beauty’, in Lindsay Jones (editor in chief), Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition ( USA, Thomson Gale, 2005), volume 2, pp. 810-814.
‘Feminism and Patriarchy’ in Andrew Hass, Elizabeth Jay and David Jasper. Eds. The Oxford Handbook to English Literature and Theology ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 810-828.
‘Feminist Philosophy of Religion’, in Paul Copan and Chad V. Meister. eds. Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues ( Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), chapter 18, pp. 389-410.
‘Postmodern Theology’, in Chad Meister and Paul Copan (eds) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion. ( New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 509-520.
‘Feminism in Philosophy of Religion’ (rev. 2003) in C. Meister (ed), The Philosophy of Religion Reader (Routledge, 2008), chapter 61, pp. 655-670.
Book Reviews (most recent)
Hass, Andrew. The Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textualty. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. 184 pp. Review in Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory and Culture, Special Issue – ‘Challenge and Pluralism: The Power of Interpretation’, 19/3 (2005): 289-292.
Pears, Angela. Feminist Christian Encounters: The Methods and Strategies of Feminist Informed Christian Theologies. Aldershot, Hampshire, England. Ashgate Publishing Limited. 2004. 197pp. Review in Journal of Contemporary Religion 21/2 (May 2006): 268-269.
Joy, Morny, O’Grady, Kathleen and Pozon, Judith L. eds. Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2003. 232 pp. Review Article, ‘Rethinking Religion/Rewriting Divinity: The Critical Challenge of Contemporary ‘French’ Thinking’ European Journal of Women’s Studies 13/1 (2005): 63-66.
Le Doeuff, Michèle The Philosophical Imaginary, by. Translated by Colin Gordon. Continuum. London, 2002. 199 pages including Index. The Sex of Knowing, by Michèle Le Doeuff. Translated by Kathryn Hamer and Lorraine Code. Routledge. New York, 2003. 242 pages including Index. Feminist Theory 8/ 1(2007): 107-114.
Review Article: ‘Forever Natal: In Death as In Life’, Literature and Theology 21:2 (June 2007): 227-231. [review of Canters, Hanneke and Jantzen, Grace M. Forever Fluid: A Reading o Luce Irigaray’s Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2005].
Forthcoming Publication
‘The Urgent Wish… To Be More Life-Giving’, in Elaine Graham. Ed. The Gift of Life in the Work of Love. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming.
‘Spatial Locations Understood After Kant’, paper presented at the Kant Society Conference, University of Sussex, August 2008.