CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark A. Tietjen
University of West Georgia
Philosophy Program
TLC 2249
1601 Maple Street
Carrollton, GA 30118
678-839-6294
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:
August 2006 – present Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of West Georgia
August 2002 – July 2006 Graduate Assistant, Baylor University
Research and teaching assistance; Primary instructor of record
for Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, and Philosophy and Religion
EDUCATION:
August 2002 – July 2006 Baylor University
Ph.D., Philosophy; Dissertation: Kierkegaard’s Practice of Edification: Indirect Communication, the Virtues, and Christianity (director: Dr. Robert C. Roberts)
M.A., Philosophy
July 1998 – May 2002 Princeton Theological Seminary
Th.M., Philosophical Theology
M. Div.
August 1994 – May 1998 Palm Beach Atlantic University
B.S., summa cum laude, Suppers Honors Program
Major: Finance
Minor: Russian Studies
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Kierkegaard, Philosophy of Religion / Philosophical Theology
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ancient Philosophy, Virtue Ethics
Publications:
I. Articles
(forthcoming) “Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard on Prudence,” International Kierkegaard Commentary: ‘Christian Discourses' and ‘The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress,’ ed. Robert L. Perkins (to be published late 2007, Macon University Press).
(under review) “Edification as a Philosophy of Pedagogy,” Issues in Integrative Studies.
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love,” Southwest Philosophy Review 21(2), 23-35.
“Being Anxious for Nothing: Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Anxiety,” Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 47(2-3), 67-78.
“Motivation and Job Satisfaction,” Management Decision 36(4), 226-31, 1998.
II. Book Reviews
Invited review of proposed comparative religion textbook by Louis Vaughn, Anthology of World Religions, Oxford University Press (October – November 2006).
Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2001), in Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 46(2-3), 121-23, April 2004.
Presentations:
“Blunt Readings of Kierkegaard,” presented at the spring meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society (Athens, GA, March 2007)
“Edification as a Philosophy of Pedagogy,” presented at the 28th Annual Association of Integrative Studies Conference (Atlanta, GA, October 2006)
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love (revised)”, presented before the Søren Kierkegaard Society meeting at the Central APA (Chicago, IL, April 2006)
“Kierkegaard’s Bad News about Christian Love,” presented at the Pacific Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Newberg, OR, April 2005)
“Love for the Other in Kierkegaard,” presented at Loyola University’s graduate philosophy conference (Chicago, IL, March 2005)
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love,” presented at the Eighth Annual Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference (Oxford, England, November 2004).
“Earnestness and the Task of Existence,” presented at the Tenth Biennial BAPT (Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers) Meeting (Dallas, TX, October 2004)
“Rorty and Kierkegaard on the Nature of Human Finitude,” presented at the Pacific Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (La Mirada, CA, February 2004).
Works in Progress:
- Kierkegaard as Socratic Virtue Thinker
- Blunt Readings of Kierkegaard
- Indirect Communication in Kierkegaard’s Lectures and The Point of View
- Kierkegaard and Contemporary Moral Philosophy
COURSES TAUGHT:
- Logic
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Introduction to Religion
- Critical Thinking
- Philosophy and Religion
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Religious Texts
- Philosophy of Religion
Fellowships:
June – July 2005 Summer Fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, MN
Professional Affiliations:
American Philosophical Association
American Academy of Religion
Søren Kierkegaard Society
Society of Christian Philosophers
Association of Integrative Studies
Professional References:
Dr. C. Stephen Evans Dr. Robert C. Roberts, director
Baylor University Baylor University
(254) 710-6363 (254) 710-3368
C_Stephen_Evans@baylor.edu Robert_Roberts@baylor.edu
Dr. John Davenport Dr. Margaret Watkins Tate
Fordham University Baylor University
(212) 636-7928 (254) 710-7337
Davenport@fordham.edu Margaret_Tate@baylor.edu
Dr. Anne-Marie Bowery Dr. Jeremiah Alberg
Baylor University University of West Georgia
(254) 710-4403 (678) 839-4848
Anne_Marie_Bowery@baylor.edu jalberg@westga.edu