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Open Court Press, 2006) and baseball was balanced by his youthful participation in the arts of song, guitar, and poetry --all interests which he continues to pursue. Educated in the public schools of Memphis, Tennessee, he received an undergraduate degree in philosophy and criminal justice in 1986 and a master’s degree in philosophy in 1988 from the University of Memphis before receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from Emory University in 1992. He chaired the philosophy department at Oklahoma City University from 1992-1997 and was founding director of the OCU Institute of Liberal Arts from 1994-1999. He accepted a position at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2000 and was appointed the third editor of the Library of Living Philosophers in 2001, one of the longest running and most notable books series in the discipline of philosophy (since 1939, http://www.siu.edu/%7Ephilos/llp/index.html). Since taking the post he has completed volumes on Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Marjorie Grene and Jaakko Hintikka. Volumes in preparation are devoted to Michael Dummett, Arthur Danto, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Martha C. Nussbaum. Auxier’s interest in philosophical personalism led him to become editor of the scholarly journal The Personalist Forum in 1997, a journal which expanded its mission and was renamed The Pluralist in 2005 (http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/plur.html). Subjects on which he has published range widely --from John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, Josiah Royce, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Frank Lloyd Wright, to the limits of evolution, biker bars, and ministries related to homosexuality to name only a small sample. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers and presentations around the United States and in several other countries, written many scholarly articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, and edited numerous books. Currently he is working on two book manuscripts, Time, Evolution, and History, and Politics as a Symbolic Form. Auxier's creative works have also included two published short stories, a poetic piece of theological meditation, and three music CD’s which feature many of his original compositions, his work as a producer of recordings, as well as his facility on guitar, bass, percussion, and vocals. See www.redbudhill.com. With his wife Gaye, a gifted computer programmer, Auxier lives in an old mansion in Murphysboro, Illinois, where they service the needs of many cats and are active members in the United Methodist Church. Auxier serves as the permanent teacher of the Passages Sunday School Class and directs the Handbell Choir. |
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