Josef Mendoza
- Adjunct Instructor Philosophy
- CHSS Grader (Morgan) College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- mendozaj@montclair.edu
Biography
Education: B.A. degrees in Social Ecology and Comparative Culture from the University of California, Irvine; M.A. degrees in Philosophy from Boston College (Ancient, Continental) and the New School (Modern, Pragmatism); and Ph.D. in Postsecondary Adult and Online Education at Capella University.
Courses: Ethics & Community Engagement 102; Logic 106. Additional teaching competences: History of Western Philosophy, Native American Pragmatism, Continental Philosophy.
Current Research Interests and Writing Projects: 1) Environmental Philosophy and Water Ethics; 2) Hume’s Finite Mind; 3) L. Maria Child’s Romantic Pragmaticism; 4) Mood and Caring Beyond the Home (Heidegger, Kant, Noddings).
Favorite Non-Academic Life Activities: hiking, bicycling, fresh-water fishing, theater, music, culinary and visual arts.
Resume/CV
Research
Value Theory, Social Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy.
Ethical Issues in Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
Work-in-Progress
Mood and Caring Beyond the Home: Heidegger, Kant, Noddings
Work-in-Progress
Lydia Maria Child’s Mixed-Race Romantic Pragmaticism in A Romance of the Republic (1867)
Work in Progress
Media Expertise
Value Theory, Social Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy.