Michael Deckard

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. His specialty is in History of Modern Philosophy and Aesthetics. He has taught courses in history of philosophy (ancient, medieval, and modern), historical and environmental aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and phenomenology, applied ethics (particularly medical ethics and the ethics of war and peace), Native American philosophy, and history and philosophy of science. He is program coordinator of the Philosophy Department at Lenoir-Rhyne, serves on the Ethics Advisory Council at the Catawba Valley Medical Center and is a Board member for Exodus Homes, a halfway house for men and women who are transitioning from prison back into mainstream society. He is a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Bucharest for 2015-2016.