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Joe Keith Green
Education
Ph.D. Brown UniversityReligious Studies 1992
M.Div. Yale UniversityDivinity School1984
Manchester College-OxfordPhilosophy and Theology1980-81
A.B.cum laude Saint Olaf CollegePhilosophy and History1980
Academic Appointment: Professor of Philosophy, East Tennessee State University
Graduate Faculty Associate Membership: March 2004 and ongoing
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, August 2008 with grant of tenure and promotion .,
Assistant Professor, 2002-2008,
Affiliations, Memberships and Awards
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Thought: University of Groningen (NL): Member (by nomination)
Publications: Peer Reviewed Articles
“Spinoza on Turning the Other Cheek”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Vol. VIII (forthcoming).
“Spinoza on Reflexive Affects and the Imitation of Affects;” Gábor Boros–Judit Szalai–Olivér
István Tóth (ed.):The Concept of Affectivity in Early Modern Philosophy. Budapest:
Eötvös University Press, 2017, 124-141.
"Forgiveness, Pardon, and Punishment in Spinoza’s Ethical Theory and 'True Religion'", Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS), Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 65-87.
“Spinoza on Self-Hatred,”Iyyun:The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 65 (January 2016), 73-95.
“Spinoza on Blame and Hatred,” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly62, (July,
2013), 195-233.
“Aquinas on hating sin in Summa Theologiae II-II Q34 A3 and I-II Q23 A1”,Sophia54/issue 4
(2013), 601-623. DOI: 10.1007/s11841-013-0359-z
“Loving Sinners to Death”, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 44, no. 4, (July 2010), 509-519.
with Joel Gereboff, Diana Fritz Cates, and Maria Heim, “The Nature of the Beast: Hatred in Cross-Traditional Religious and Philosophical Perspective”, Journal of the Society for Christian EthicsVol. 29.2, (2009), 175-205.
“Spinoza on Hatred and the Impotence of Reason”, An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol.
2, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Philosophy: Athens Institute for
Education and Research, (June 2008).
with Niall Shanks, “Intelligent Design in Theological Perspective”, SyntheseVol. 178, No. 1,
(January 2011), 307-330. (online publication, April 15, 2009, ISSN: 1573-0964, DOI:
10.1007/s11229-009-9541-9)
“Aquinas on Attachment, Envy, and Hatred in the Summa Theologica”, Journal of
Religious Ethics 35.3 (September 2007).
“Aquinas’s argument against the possibility of self-hatred”, Journal of
Religious Ethics35: 1. (March 2007)
with Richard Kortum, “Can Frege’s Farbung help explain the meaning of ethical
terms?” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 1, February, 2007)
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with Niall Shanks, “Evolution and the Ethics of Animal Research”, Essays in
Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2004, (
“Surrealism and Vision of Being in Sartre’s Nausea”, in Proceedings of the Hawaii
International Conference of the Arts and Humanities, (2003—CD)
"Introduction to Essays Representing Protestant Traditions," in Martha Nussbaum
and Saul Olyan, eds: Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American
Religious Discourse, (1998, Oxford University Press).
Reviews
Campos, André Santos, ed., Spinoza: Basic Concepts, (Imprint Academic. Exeter, UK, 2015), Journal of the History of Political Thought(forthcoming).
“Digging the Naturally Queer in Spinoza,” Review of Hasana Sharp, Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization, (University of Chicago Press, 2011), GLQ:A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies,Vol 21, no. 1, 2015.
Review of Heidi M. Ravven, The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, The New Brain Sciences, The New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will, (New York, The New Press, 2013), Iyyun63, July 2014.
Review (book comment) of Nichlas Rescher, On Leibniz (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) , Review of Metaphysics, Vol 68, 2014.
Review of Donald M. Broom, The Evolution of Morality and Religion, (Cambridge University Press, 2014) in Religious Studies, September 2005.
Presentations (Peer reviewed unless otherwise indicated) since 2015
“Spinoza on Reflexive Affects and the Imitation of Affects in Ethics IIIp30”, Budapest Early Modern Philosophy Seminar,Eötvös Loránd University, October 14-15, 2016.
"Hatred and Agency in the Light of Joy"; Joy, Love, and Hatred Consultation (supported by Templeton Foundation), Yale Center for Faith and Culture, May 27-28, 2016. (by invitation)
"The Body's Capabilities, in Ethics 5p39" Workshop: The Body in Spinoza's Philosophy: KU Leuven. Institute of Philosophy, March 18, 2016
"Spinoza, Imitation of Affects, and Reflexive Affects", North Carolina Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, February 27, 2016
With Hasana Sharp, “Spinoza’s Morality for Mortals,”Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP),at McGill University, October 2, 2015 (by invitation)
“Spinoza and Relational Autonomy”, Collegium Spinozanum, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, July 10, 2015, (by invitation).
“Spinoza on Self-Hatred” , British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of York, UK, April 10, 2015 .
Reviewer for:
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Epoche: A Journal of the History of Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2 reviews)
Second Dutch Early Modern Philosophy Seminar (2015)
Journal of Early Modern Studies
Journal of Value Inquiry
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly(ACPQ)
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
Journal of Appalachian Studies