Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
PhD, DePaul University (2006)
Professional Experience
Professional Experience
Professor of Philosophy
Assistant Director of FCPE
Recent Courses
Recent Courses
Bioethics
First Year Seminar: Citizenship
First Year Seminar: Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Philosophical Psychology
Social Science Seminar: Ethics And Justice In Medicine And Healing
Courses Previously Taught
Courses Previously Taught
Business Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Medical Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Specialization/Interests
Specialization/Interests
--Applied Ethics
--Political Philosophy
--Aesthetics
--Cultural History
Teaching Philosophy
Teaching Philosophy
My teaching philosophy places a strong emphasis on active learning and interdisciplinarity. I am interested in creating lasting learning experiences by allowing students to actively construct knowledge. In a philosophical context, this means that I do not just teach philosophy but facilitate students learning to do philosophy. In addition, I aim to make what I teach more relevant and applicable by facilitating connections to other fields of knowing.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Research interests include:
Critical Theory
Social Theory
Applied Ethics (especially business ethics and medical ethics)
International Experience
International Experience
Teaching Medical Ethics at MDIS in Singapore
Research in Germany, including Fulbright fellowship
Books
Books
Walter Benjamin's First Philosophy (Routledge, 2021)
https://www.routledge.com/Walter-Benjamins-First-Philosophy-Experience-Ephemerality-and-Truth/Ross/p/book/9780367613242
The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience (Palgrave, 2017)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-52304-0
Art as Human Practice (Translator) (Bloomsbury, 2019)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-as-human-practice-9781350063150/
The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook, ed. Nathan Ross
Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history. This Handbook provides students and scholars with a guide to Walter Benjamin’s work that explores each of these areas in depth while also giving the reader a chance to discover connections to other areas of thought.
In order to do justice to the complexity of Benjamin’s thinking, this volume includes international scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, and is organized such that a dialogue emerges between them. Each section presents an argument for the integration of its subject into the whole, demonstrating that what might seem specialized and esoteric actually intersects with the problems and questions of the other sections.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-palgrave-walter-benjamin-handbook-nathan-ross/1146357216
Philosophy of Jazz (author Daniel Marti Feige, transl. Nathan Ross)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666959512/Philosophy-of-Jazz
The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook (forthcoming 2024)
Chapters
Chapters
Towards a Philosophy of Urban Life (In Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook)
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
'The Ethics of Refusing Bureaucratic Work in Higher Education and Beyond' at The Ethics of Choosing and Refusing Work conference at Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Pubic Affairs at University of Edinburgh Scotland.
Towards a Mimetic Theory of Truth at 'Perceiving, Listening, Mimesis and Crictism, Graz Austria
https://kunst-musikwissenschaft.uni-graz.at/en/events/workshop-perceiving-listening-mimesis-and-criticism/
Towards a Philosophy of Urban Life at Rome Critical Theory Conference
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