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I received my B.A. (UPenn) in South Asia Studies (with a concentration in the religious traditions of India and Sanskrit studies) in 2001. I conducted original research in India and wrote my thesis on on Utpaladeva, a tenth-century Hindu philosopher of the Pratyabhijna school of Shaiva philosophy, under the supervision of Wilhelm Halbfass, one of the most accomplished scholars of Indian philosophy. My Ph.D. (UPenn, 2007) is in Religious Studies (with a concentration on Modern Religious Thought and Philosophy of Religion). I wrote my dissertation on the role of intersection of religious and philosophical thought in the work of three important twentieth-century philosophers: Heidegger, Marion and Ricoeur. I am currently elected an officer in the Society for Ricoeur Studies.Degree
PhD in Religious Studies
University of Pennsylvania
BA in South Asian Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Other in
Collège de Sorbonne
Other in Classical Indian Philosophy, Kashmir Saivism, Medieval Indian Aesthetics
Banaras Hindu University
Other in Philosophy
University of Minnesota
Published Works
- Graves, J. A. (2022). Eros, accusation and uncertainty: Kantian ethics after Freud. (pp 339-362). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110735550-019
- Graves, J. A. (2022). "Responsibility and the Unity of Self: Variations on a Kantian Theme in Brandom and Korsgaard". Existenz, 15(1), 23. .
- Graves, J. A. (2021). The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion and Ricoeur . (pp 256). . https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793640574/The-Phenomenology-of-Revelation-in-Heidegger-Marion-and-Ricoeur
- Graves, J. A. (2020). "The Ambiguity of Flesh" . (pp 19-36). Lexington Books (An Imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.).
- Graves, J. A. . Review of Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity (Małgorzata Hołda, Ignatianum University Press, Krakow, 2018). Studia Philosophiae Christianae, https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2019.55.1.31
- Graves, J. A. (2019). "The Limits of Tolerance: Religion and the ‘Right to Offend’ in Liberal Democracies" ("Os Limites da Tolerância: A Religião e o ‘Direito de Ofender’ nas Democracias Liberais"). (pp 1-14). Lumen Juris .
- Graves, J. A. (2019). "Hermeneutics, Historicism and The Concept of History". Existenz , 14(1), 53-58. .
- Graves, J. A. (2018). "Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom". (6Issue Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action , pp 57-70). Springer. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319992945#aboutBook
- Graves, J. A. (2018). Freedom and Resentment and Ricoeur. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982480.ch-12
- Graves, J. A. (2018). "'Freedom and Resentment' and Ricoeur: Toward A Normative-Narrative Theory of Agency". (pp 207-226). https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498578899/A-Companion-to-Ricoeur%27s-Freedom-and-Nature.
- Graves, J. A. (2015). Review of The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander. Routledge Philosophy Companions, 2014. Choice ,
- Graves, J. A. (2013). "Before the Text: Ricoeur and the Theological Turn in Phenomenology". Studia Phaenomenologica, XIII42-368. .
- Graves, J. A. (2011). "Revelation and Event: Ricoeur on the Uniqueness of Scripture". (Paul Ricoeur: Poetics and Religion, pp 503-517). Peeters Press (Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 240th ed.).
- Graves, J. A. (2011). Review of Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry (Wesley J. Wildman, SUNY Press, 2010). Choice,
- Graves, J. A. (2011). Review of Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard’s Pluralist Epistemology (M. G. Piety, Baylor University Press, 2010). Choice,
- Graves, J. A. (2011). Review of Empathy in the Context of Philosophy (Lou Agosta, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Choice,
Research Interests
Modern European philosophy of religion, with particular interest in phenomenological philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion); the development of hermeneutic theory from Schleiermacher to Gadamer, Ricoeur and Vattimo; methodological issues in the study of religion; sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization; the theological and philosophical sources of modern theories of autonomy.
Teaching Interests
I enjoy teaching a range of subject within philosophy (ethics, phenomenology, existentialism, history of modern philosophy) and the field of religious studies (introduction to western and eastern religions, the history of Christian thought, religion and culture, etc.).
Office Hours
Tuesday - [12:15 to 01:30]
Thursday - [12:15 to 01:30]