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Philosophy

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Steven Vogel

Affiliation Faculty
Title Professor
Office Knapp 205A
Email vogel@denison.edu
Phone 740-587-6579

See full resume [pdf]

Steve Vogel, who holds an A.B. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University, has been a member of the Philosophy Department at Denison since 1984. He teaches courses in continental philosophy, nineteenth-century philosophy, environmental ethics, social and political philosophy, and logic. He has special research interests in environmental philosophy, in the work of Jürgen Habermas and of the Frankfurt School, and in Marxism, Hegel, and Heidegger. He is the author of Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory, published in 1996 by SUNY Press, and has published articles in Environmental Ethics (where he is also a member of the editorial board), Environmental Values, Philosophy Today, Rethinking Marxism, Social Theory and Practice, Tikkun, Dissent, and elsewhere. In 2003 he was awarded the Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence at Denison.

Research and Publications

Selected Publications

Denison Magazine First Person article [pdf]

Thomas Heyd (ed), Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Theory and Practice (Human Ecology, 2007) [pdf]

The Silence of Nature (Environmental Values, 2006) [pdf] 

Nature as Origin and Difference (Philosophy Today, 1999) [pdf]