Brian Treanor is the current Casassa Chair in Social Values, Professor of Philosophy in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the academic director of the Academy of Catholic Thought & Imagination at

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. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College where he studied with

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and

Jacques Taminiaux Jacques Taminiaux (; 29 May 1928 – 7 May 2019) was a Belgian philosopher and professor at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Biography Born in Seneffe, Taminiaux studied law and philosophy at the Catholic Univers ...

Early life

Brian Treanor was born in

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. He completed his undergraduate degree in political science at

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and attended both

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and

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for his graduate work.

Research

Treanor's research is in the area of philosophical hermeneutics, with significant focus on

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philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...

, and

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

. He is the author or editor of six books: * ''Carnal Hermeneutics'', co-edited with Richard Kearney (New York:

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, 2015, ) * ''Being in Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World'', co-edited with Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba (New York:

, 2015, ) * ''Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics'' (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014, ) * ''Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics'', co-edited with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler (New York:

, 2013, ) * ''A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur'', co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema (New York:

, 2010, ) * ''Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel and the Contemporary Debate'' (New York:

, 2006, ) He has also written numerous article related to his field.

Teaching and administrative work

Treanor is an advocate for

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. He has worked regularly in LMU's core curriculum, including founding a Great Books Learning Community. He was the founding director of the Environmental Studies program, and the founding director of the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination.

Awards

Treanor has been honored by the Associated Students of LMU as Teacher of the Year twice, and in 2011, was given the President's Fritz B. Burns Teaching Award, the university's highest honor.

References

External links

Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination
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