CHARLES DON KEYES

Charles Don Keyes is a Professor of Philosophy. His philosophical roots are in Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and phenomenology. Dr. Keyes has done research in biomedical ethics and the brain/mind problem, focusing on the relation between neurobiological monism and ethics, aesthetics, and religious symbols. He is currently doing research in existential phenomenology and social philosophy.

E-Mail: keyes@duq.edu

EDUCATION
B.A., Letters, 1958, University of Oklahoma; M.A., Philosophy, 1966, University of Toronto; Th.D., Philosophy of Religion, 1966, Trinity College, Toronto; Ph.D., Philosophy, 1968, Duquesne University.

COURSES
Heidegger's Being and Time, Hegel's Logic and Kierkegaard's Postscript, and Ricoeur's Symbolism of Evil.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Brain Mystery Light and Dark: The Rhythm and Harmony of Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1999.

New Harvest: Transplanting Body Parts and Reaping the Benefits, Principal Author and Editor (in collaboration with Walter Wiest). Clifton, NJ: Humana, 1991.

Foundations for an Ethic of Dignity: A Study in the Degradation of the Good. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1989.

Articles

“Doing Metaethics with Kant and Edwards,” Proceedings of The Northampton-Stockbridge Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Jonathan Edwards, Northampton, MA, October 3, 2003 (forthcoming).

"Does Cosmic Consciousness Have a Physical Substrate?,” Proceedings of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, 26th Annual Conference (June 2001), 28-37.

"Medical Ethical Meditation on Brain Mystery Light and Dark: The Rhythm and Harmony of Consciousness," Sensibilities, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2001), 8-9.

"Paul D. MacLean's Triune Brain Hypothesis: Which Platonic Metaphor Fits and Which Does Not?," Proceedings of the Institute for Liberal Studies. Science and Culture, Fall, Vol. 8 (1997), 18-21.

"Crisis of Brain and Self," Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1996), 583-95.

"Ethical Judgment and Brain Function: An Interpretation of Paul D. MacLean's Hypothesis, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1992), 387-398.

"Julian Casserley's Hope," Introduction to Julian Casserley, Evil and Evolutionary Eschatology: Two Essays by Julian Casserley. Lewiston , NY : Mellen (1990), vi-xxv.

"Casserley's Theodicy in Relation to His Eschatology," St. Luke's Journal of Theology, Vol. 33, No. 1 (1989), 37-48.

"Casserley's Critique of Power," St. Luke's Journal of Theology, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1988), 7-20.

"Hope and Despair in the 1980s: Value Destruction and the Restoration of Hope," Desert Call, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1988), 10-13.

"Human Transcendence: Clue to Julian Casserley's Hope for the Twenty-first Century," St. Luke's Journal of Theology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1984), 101-112.

"An Evaluation of Levinas' Critique of Heidegger," Research in Phenomenology, Vol. II (1972), 121-42.

"Art and Temporality," Research in Phenomenology, Vol. I (1971), 63-73.

"Truth as Art," in J. Sallis, Editor, Heidegger and the Path of Thinking. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, (1970), 65-84.