Christopher Hauser

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Contact Info

christopher.hauser@scranton.edu

(570) 941-4808

[LSC] Loyola Science Center 402A

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Education

PhD in Philosophy, Rutgers University (2020)
BA in Philosophy and History, Dartmouth College (2014)

Teaching Interests

Chris Hauser regularly teaches PHIL 121X: (FYS) Faith and Reason, PHIL 210J: Ethics (for the SJLA program), PHIL 229: Philosophy of Religion, PHIL 220: Ancient Philosophy, PHIL 339: Philosophy of the Person, and PHIL 384: Free Will, Science, and the Self. He is very happy to mentor students and help them pursue their academic interests and career goal. He especially enjoys working one-on-one with students in Honors Tutorials and Independent Studies. In recent years, Dr. Hauser has supervised an Honors Thesis on Free Will and Honors Tutorials on free will, free will & science, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time.

Scholarship

Dr. Hauser has published in several areas of philosophy, including ancient philosophy (Aristotle), medieval philosophy (Aquinas), metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. Recent publications include “The Status of Souls as Hupokeimena in Aristotle” (Metaphysics), “Evolution, Emergence, and the Divine Creation of Human Souls” (Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association), “Aquinas on Persons, Psychological Subjects, and the Coherence of the Incarnation” (Faith and Philosophy), “St. Thomas Aquinas’s Concept of a Person” (NTU Philosophical Review), “Persons, Souls and Life after Death” (chapter in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature), “On Being Human and Divine: The Coherence of the Incarnation” (Faith and Philosophy), and “Aristotle’s Explanationist Epistemology of Essence” (Metaphysics).

Other Involvements

Dr. Hauser is involved in various other initiatives on campus. For example, he is currently Faculty Coordinator of the University’s Ethics Across the Curriculum initiative and the Faculty Advisor for the University’s Faith & Reason Club and Thomistic Institute Club.