Faculty Profiles
Dr. Phil Cary
Professor of Philosophy
(610) 341-5928
pcary@eastern.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- M.A., Yale University: Philosophy
- B.A., Washington University, St. Louis: English Literature and Philosophy
Professor Cary has taught at Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Hartford. He also taught seminars on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance thought, and on modern thought as the Arthur J. Ennis Post-Doctoral Fellow at Villanova University.
At Eastern, Dr. Cary is the Director of the Philosophy Program and Scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College. Dr. Cary teaches the year-long Western Civilization seminar taken by all first year students of the THC. The seminar focuses on intensive (rather than extensive) reading of writings that have formed the Western tradition, including those by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Descartes, Austen, Nietzsche and Flannery O'Connor. Dr. Cary is a philosopher and theologian known for his taped lecture series, Augustine: Philosopher and Saint, and Philosophy and Religion in the West, published by The Teaching Company.
Professor Cary's book Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self, has been published by Oxford University Press. He recently completed another Augustinian work titled, Signs and Inwardness, and is currently working on a book about the prophet Jonah.
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