Joe Lynch
Professor
PHIL Major and Minor Advisor
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 47, Rm. 34C
- Phone: 805-756-2064
- Email: jlynch@calpoly.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate School (1992)
- M.A., Religion, The Claremont Graduate School
- B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University
Professional Interests
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of religion
Courses Taught
- PHIL 422: Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL 342: Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL 320: Asian Philosophy
- RELS 307: Buddhism
- PHIL 231: Philosophical Classics - Ethics & Political Philosophy
Selected Publications
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Review of Michael Murray’s Nature: Red in Tooth & Claw for Faith and Philosophy 29 No. 4, October 2012.
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Review of Animals as Biotechnology by Michael Twine in Journal of Animal Ethics 2, 2, Fall 2012.
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“Buddhism, Daoism, and Dudeism” in The Big Lebowski and Philosophy (ed. Peter S. Fosi), Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.
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Confessions of a Tattooed Philosopher” in I Ink Therefore I Am: Philosophy and Tattoos (ed. Robert Arp), Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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“Suffering, Spirituality, and Sensuality: Religion and the Blues,” in The Blues and Philosophy, (ed. Abrol Farweather and Jesse Steinburg.) Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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“God, Zombies, and Animals,” Agora 30, 2, Fall 2011.
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“Plato Versus Shaolin Warriors on the Nature of the Self” in Beatings and Nothingness: Martial Arts and Philosophy (ed. Priest and Young) Open Court Press 2010.
Chief Editor: Between the Species
Chair of the Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts