Daryl Hale
Philosophy and Religion Department
Associate Professor
Phone: 828-227-3853
Email: dhale@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: Stillwell Building, Room 230
Website: http://paws.wcu.edu/dhale/
Education
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
- M.A., Vanderbilt University
- B.A., Calvin College
- B.S., Oakland City College
Areas of Interest
Early modern philosophy, Kant, Neoplatonism, Late Antiquity, Jefferson and American Enlightenment.
Selected Publications & Presentations
- “’Our Master Epicurus’: Thomas Jefferson’s Epicurean Philosophical Vision”, editing Fall 2004 (sent to William & Mary Quarterly, Fall 2003; editor and Jefferson scholar praised it, suggest it be sent to Journal of History of Ideas)
- “Thomas Jefferson: Sublime or Sublimated Philosopher?”, International Social Science Review, Vol. 72, Numbers 3 and 4 (Fall 1997)
- Manuscript “The Stoics and Epicureans”, written for Knowledge Products (Nashville, TN), Great Ideas in Philosophy audiocassette series; written June 1995; recorded by Lynn Redgrave, October 1995
- “’Leading Geometry out of Calypso’s Arms’: Kant’s Neoplatonic Re-Visions of Knowing”, The Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, Spring 1995