M. Jamie Ferreira, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Carolyn M. Barbour Chair in Religious Studies, Professor;Philosophy of Religion Office:  209 Halsey Hall 434-924-6712 email: JamieF@virginia.edu UVa instructor ID # 5267 Philosophy of Religion and history of philosophy, with special attention to questions of epistemology, language, and religious experience; Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Newman, Schleiermacher, Wittgenstein, Levinas. Interests in ethical and religious imagination, in 20th century existentialism, as well as issues of sameness and difference with respect to neighbor-love. Education : Ph.D., Princeton University (1977) (Philosophy of Religion) M.A., Princeton University (1975) B.A., Brown University (1973) Courses Fall 2004 RELG 722 Modern Religious Thought RELG 728 Modern Religious Thought Spring 2004 RELG 357  Existentialism RELG 722 Modern Religious Thought Fall 2003 RELG 238 Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age RELG 728 Modern Religious Thought Spring 2003 RELG 357  Existentialism RELG 728 Modern Religious Thought   Professional Career: 2003: Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies (endowed chair) 1992- present: University of Virginia , Professor, Departments of Religious Studies and of Philosophy 1993-95: Assistant Dean of the Faculty, College of Arts & Sciences l985-1992: University of Virginia, Associate Professor, Departments of Religious Studies and of Philosophy 1980-l985: University of Virginia , Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies 1977-1980: Yale University , Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies 1976-1977: Yale University , Acting Instructor, Department of Religious Studies Academic Distinctions, Grants: DAAD Study Grant, Phillips-Universität, Marburg , Germany (fall 2002) Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia (1999) Visiting Professor, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center , University of Copenhagen (July-August, 1996) Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia (1992-93) Faculty Research Summer Grant, University of Virginia (l988, l989, 1992, 1997) Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia (l987) Faculty Research Summer Grant, University of Virginia (l986) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1983-84) (Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College , Oxford ) National Humanities Research Center Fellowship (1983-84: declined) Faculty Research Summer Grants, University of Virginia , (1981, 1982) American Council of Learned Societies, Recent Recipients of Ph.D. Fellowship (1979) W. Griswold Faculty Grant, Yale University (1979) Major Publications : Books KIERKEGAARD. Great Thinkers Series (Blackwell Publishers). This forthcoming book looks at both Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works and his religious writings. LOVE’S GRATEFUL STRIVING: A Commentary on Kierkegaard’s Works of Love (New York: Oxford University Press, May 2001) TRANSFORMING VISION: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991) SCEPTICISM AND REASONABLE DOUBT: THE BRITISH NATURALIST TRADITION (Wilkins, Hume, Reid, and Newman) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, l986) DOUBT AND RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT: The Role of the Will in Newman’s Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980) Articles and Chapters in Edited Books: “‘The Misfortune of the Happy’: Levinas and the Ethical Dimensions of Desire ” Journal of Religious Ethics (forthcoming). “Levinas and Kierkegaard on Triadic Relations with God ” (forthcoming in an edited volume). “Kierkegaard and Levinas on Four Elements of the Biblical Love Commandment,” (forthcoming in an edited volume). “John Henry Newman,” addendum, the new Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Donald M. Borchert (2006). “The ‘Next Thing’: The Maieutic Relation between Works of Love and the Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits,” forthcoming International Kierkegaard Commentary volume on Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits “Love and Neighbor: Two Ethical Themes in Schleiermacher’s Speeches,” The Journal of Religion 84, 3 (July 2004). “Vision and Love: A Wittgensteinian Ethic in Culture and Value,” in Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, eds. Jeffrey Stout and R. MacSwain, SCM/Macmillan (2004). “Immediacy and Reflection in Works of Love,” in Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard’s Thought, eds. Cruyberghs et al, Louvain Philosophical Series, 17, 2003. “Engagement and the Passionate Imagination,” reprinted in Soren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. II, ed. Daniel W. Conway (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 114-41. “Surrender and Paradox: Imagination in the Leap,” reprinted in Soren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. III, ed. Daniel W. Conway (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 142-67. “The Glory of a Long Desire: Need and Commandment in Works of Love,” in Ethik der Liebe, Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 4, ed. Ingolf Dalferth (Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2002) “Phillips: Hume’s Inheritance Reconsidered,” in The Possibilities of Sense, ed. John Whittaker (Macmillan/Palgrave, 2002) “Normativity and Reference in a Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion,” Faith and Philosophy 18: 4 (2001) “Total Altruism in Levinas’s ‘Ethic of the Welcome’,” Journal of Religious Ethics 29: 3 (fall 2001) “A Kierkegaardian View of Divine Hiddenness,” in Divine Hiddenness: New Essays, eds. Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser (Cambridge University Press, December, 2001) “Impotent Mercifulness in Works of Love,” Anthropology and Authority inSøren Kierkegaard, ed. Sven. H. Rossel and G. Marino (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 2000) "Making Room for Faith: Possibility and Hope in Kant and Kierkegaard," Kant and Kierkegaard on Religion, eds. D. Z. Phillips and Timothy Tessin (MacMillan Press, 2000) "Mutual Responsiveness in Relation: the Challenge of the Ninth Deliberation," International Kierkegaard Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love, ed. Robert Perkins (Mercer University Press, 2000) "Kierkegaard and ‘the Lover'," Enrahonor: Quaderns de Filosofia 28 (fall 1998) "Otherworldliness in Kierkegaard's Works of Love," Philosophical Investigations 21:1 (1999) "Hume's Mitigated Scepticism: Some Implications for Religious Belief," Religion and Hume's Legacy, eds. D. Z. Phillips and T. Tessin (Macmillan Press, 1999) "Faith and the Kierkegaardian ‘Leap'," in The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, eds. A. Hannay and G. Marino (Cambridge University Press, 1997) "The Point Outside the World: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Nonsense, Paradox and Religion," reprinted in Wittgenstein Studies 1 (1997) “Impartiality, Equality, and Moral Blindness in Kierkegaard's Works of Love," Journal of Religious Ethics (spring 1997) "Imagination and the Despair of Sin," in Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook: 1997, eds. N. J. Cappelørn and H. Deuser (Walter de Gruyter, 1997) "Moral Vision and Moral Blindness in Works of Love,” in Kierkegaard Revisited, Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series 1 (Walter de Gruyter, 1997) “Hume's Naturalism: Proof and Practice," in Great Political Thinkers: Section 1, eds. Dunn and Harris (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1997), reprint from The Philosophical Quarterly (1985) "Wittgenstein and Religious Imagination: Between Ontology and Ethics," Philosophy of Religion between Ethics and Ontology, ed. M.M. Olivetti (Biblioteca dell' Archivio di Filosofia, Milano, 1996) "Religion and ‘Really Believing': Belief and the Real," in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief, eds. T. Tessin and M. von der Ruhr (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Macmillan Press and St. Martin's Press, 1995) "Hume's Naturalism: Proof and Practice," in David Hume: Critical Assessments, ed. S. Tweyman (Routledge, 1995), reprint from The Philosophical Quarterly (1985) "Hume's Natural History: Religion and ‘Explanation,'" Journal of the History of Philosophy 33:4 (October, 1995) "Religion's ‘Foundation in Reason': the Common Sense of Hume's Natural History," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (December 1994) "Leaps and Circles: Kierkegaard and Newman on Faith and Reason," Religious Studies 30 (December 1994) "Hume and Imagination: Sympathy and the ‘Other'," International Philosophical Quarterly (March 1994) "The Point Outside the World: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Nonsense, Paradox, and Religion," Religious Studies 30 (March, 1994) "The Grammar of the Heart: Newman on Faith and Imagination," in Discourse and Context: An Interdisciplinary Study of John Henry Newman, ed. Gerard Magill (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993) "Kierkegaardian Imagination and the Feminine," Kierkegaardiana XVI (April, 1992) "Seeing (Just) is Believing: Faith and Imagination," Faith and Philosophy (April 1992) "Kierkegaardian Transitions: Paradox and Pathos," International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (March 1991) "Kierkegaardian Faith: the `Condition' and the Response," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 28 (1990) "Repetition, Concreteness, and Imagination," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 25 (l989) "Newman and James on Religious Experience: the Theory and the Concrete," The Heythrop Journal XXIX (January l988) "The Faith/History Problem and Kierkegaard's A Priori 'Proof'," Religious Studies 23 (September, l987) "Locke's `Constructive Skepticism'--A Reappraisal," The Journal of the History of Philosophy (April l986) "Newman on Belief-Confidence, Proportionality, and Probability," The Heythrop Journal XVI (April l985) "Hume's Naturalism--`Proof' and Practice," The Philosophical Quarterly (Jan. l985) "Universal Criteria and the Autonomy of Religious Belief," The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 15 (1984) "Certainty"; "Doubt". Dictionary of Christian Theology (Westminster Press, October 1983) "Newman and `the Ethics of Belief'", Religious Studies (October, 1983) "A Common Defense of Theistic Belief: Some Critical Considerations," The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (1983) "Kant's Postulate: The Possibility or the Existence of God?", Kant-Studien (January 1983) Recent Papers , Lectures, Panels: “Rethinking Religious Faith and Imagination,”Philip Thayer Memorial Lecture, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg , VA , April 14, 2005 “The Misfortune of the Happy: Levinas and Dimensions of Desire,” Conference on “Jewish Philosophy of Religion: Levinas and Rosenzweig,” Danish Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen , March 10-11, 2005 SPR response, Hilton Head, Feb. 24-27, 2005 “The Problematic Agapeistic Ideal—Again,” University of Copenhagen , August 14, 2004 “Schleiermacher and the Neighbor: Need, Love, and Kinship,” Society for Philosophy of Religion, Mobile , AL , March 4, 2004 “The Single Individual and Kinship: Reflections on Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher,” “Subjectivity and Truth”: Schleiermacher/Kierkegaard Congress, University of Copenhagen , Oct. 9-13, 2003 “Schleiermacher and the Neighbor: Need, Love, and Kinship,” University of Marburg , December 17, 2002 “Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard: Immediacy and the Neighbor,” University of Zuerich , Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion and Faculty of Theology, December 12, 2002 “In Defense of a Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion,” Goethe University, Frankfurt , Institute for Philosophy of Religion, December 10, 2002 , “Schleiermacher and the Neighbor: Need, Love, and Kinship,” Goethe University , Faculty of Theology, Frankfurt , November 25, 2002 “The Image of God and the Need of Love,” American Philosophical Association, Atlanta , GA (December 2001) “Immediacy and Indirection in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love,” Conference on Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard’s Thought, Catholic University of Leuven (October 10-13, 2001) Respondent, 28 th Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Victoria (July 25-28, 2001) “The ‘As Yourself’ of the Love Command: Kierkegaard and Levinas, Søren Kierkegaard Society of the UK conference “Kierkegaard” Between Ethics and Religion” (July 5-8, 2001) Professional Societies: American Philosophical Association Society for Philosophy of Religion 1989-90: President; l988-89: Vice-President; 1985-91: Executive Council American Academy of Religion Kierkegaard Society 1992—President; 1991--Vice-President (President-elect) Hume Society