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Katharine Loevy, PhD
Education
PhD, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
MA, Religion, Vanderbilt University
MA, Art History, Vanderbilt University
BA, Grinnell College
Publications
“Literary Resistance to the Philosophy of Slavery in Medieval Islam: The Ikhwan as-Safa’ and al-Farabi,” Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2 (October 2020): pp. 237-254.
“The Ikhwan al-Safa’’s Animal Accusers: An Islamic Debate on Animal Slavery,” Environmental Philosophy: The Journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (fall 2019): 319-338.
“Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal Within,” in Face-to-Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question, eds. Peter Atterton and Tamra Wright (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 167-183.
“The Poetics of the Body in Islamic Mysticism,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2018): 161-173.
“The Fear of the Dog: Levinas’s Animal Images,” Philosophy Today, Vol. 61, No. 1 (March 2017): 155-173.
“Al-Farabi’s Images,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 1 (fall 2016): 67-84.
“Animal Compassion: What the Jatakas Teach Levinas About Giving ‘The Bread from One’s Own Mouth,’” in Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics: Rethinking the Non-Human, eds. Neil Dalal and Chloë Taylor (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 56-72.
“Levinas and the Binding of Isaac,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (spring 2012): 407-423.
“Confronting Natural Death in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” PhaenEx: Revue de théorie et culture existentialistes et phénoménologiques/Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1 (spring/summer 2010): 59-91.