Daniel Conway, Professor and Head of Philosophy

Areas of Research Specialization

19th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

Other Areas of Interest

20th Century European Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature, American Philosophy

Education

Faculty Appointments

Honors, Grants, and Awards

• Residential Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 2006-07
• Interdisciplinary Group Award for "Beyond Boundaries, Creating Connections: American Indian Housing Initiative," The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 2002
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, nominated in 2000
• Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick (U.K.), Spring Semester, 1996
• STS Grant for Innovative Course Design and Development, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996
• Research Fellowship, The Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, 1995-96 (declined)
• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Stipendium, 1994
• William J. and Charlotte K. Duddy University Endowed Fellowship in the Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991-92
• Research Initiation Grant, The Pennsylvania State University, 1990-91
• Summer Research Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center, 1990
• Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University, 1988-89
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant and Stipend, 1988
• Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California, San Diego, 1985
• Oney M. Nicely Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 1984
• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 1981
• Regents Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 1979-80
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1979

Recent Publications

• Reader's Guide to Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Under contract with Continuum Books. Forthcoming, 2008.
• The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II: The Revolutionary Age and as Responses to Hegel. Under contract with Acumen Press. Forthcoming, 2008.
• "Abraham's Final Word?," in Confronting Kierkegaard: Ethics, Faith, and Love, ed. Edward F. Mooney. Forthcoming, Indiana University Press.
• "Nietzsche," in The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II, ed. Daniel W. Conway. Under contract with Acumen Press. Forthcoming in 2008.
• "The First-Person Perspective: A Reply to Drummond," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV, 2007 (Supplement), pp. 45-48.
• "Nietzsche's Proto-Phenomenological Approach to the Theoretical Problem of Race," in Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought, eds. Jacqueline Scott and A. Todd Franklin. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006, pp. 125-48.
• "How We Became What We Are: Tracking The 'Beasts of Prey'" in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays, ed. Christa Davis Acampora. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, pp. 305-320.

Recent Presentations

• "Modernity on the Fritz: Almost Everything is Permitted." Invited paper, Nietzsche's New Politics. Richmond, VA, April 2007.
• "The Bad Conscience of Politics." Plenary Address, Nietzsche, Power, and Politics: The 16TH International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Leiden, The Netherlands, March 2007.
• "Another Mode of Convalescence? On the Warpath to Wisdom." Invited paper, Nietzsche in New York, New York, NY, March 2007.
• "Kierkegaard's Modernity." Invited presentation, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University, Durham, NC, February 2007.
• "The First-Person Perspective: Reply to Professor Drummond." Spindel Conference, Memphis, TN, September 2006.
• "Remembrance of Things Present: Nietzsche's Rhetoric of Nihilism." American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006.
• "Wild Men: Thoreau and Bugbee." Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society: Mountains, Moonlight, and Seashores: Thoreau's Exploration of Wildness. Concord, MA, July 2006.
• "Revisiting Mt. Moriah: Rembrandt's Depictions of Abraham." Invited paper, Philosophy Department, Baylor University, Waco, TX, March 2006.
• "Keeping the Secret of Life: The Limits of Nietzsche's Lebensphilosophie." Invited paper, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2006.
• "Forget and Forgive." Plenary Address, Nietzsche, Culture, and Society. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, January 2006.