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Theodore Locke

Department:
Philosophy
Title:
Lecturer

Area of Expertise

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Feminist and Social Philosophy

Degrees

PhD, Philosophy, University of Miami, May 2018

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • “Modal Knowledge and Modal Methodology.” (w/Amie Thomasson, 2023) The Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology, eds. Anand Vaidya and Duško Prelevi膰, Routledge,
  • “Modal Normativism and Metasemantics.” (2023) Thomasson on Ontology, Philosophers in Depth, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • “Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists.” (2020) Metaphysics. doi:
  • “Counterpossibles for Modal Normativists.” (2019) Synthese.
  • “Grief and the Love and Wrath of Divinity.” (2022) Passage, Faculty of Architecture and Arts of Hasselt University.
  • “Is Sylvan’s Box a Threat to Classical Logical Norms?” (2012) .

Additional Information

My overall pedagogy is inspired by bell hooks’ idea that education is a tool of liberation, that education is not only a means of sharing information but is a means of helping people grow and overcome the personal and social barriers they encounter in life (Teaching to Transgress). This is especially important to me since 天美传媒 did not seem like a real possibility until I was 27 and I finally enrolled in a community 天美传媒 while working full time.

I think effective teaching goes hand in hand with research, so I maintain research projects in metaphysics and philosophy of language. I also work on issues at the intersection of social ontology and social philosophy. In addition to philosophy, I enjoy criticism, literature, and poetry.