Faculty profile
Richard Cocks
Adjunct Professor
Contact
240 Marano Campus Center
315.312.2795
richard.cocks@oswego.edu
Research
History of philosophy, ethics
Publications
- AI and the Dehumanization of Man
- The Gift – Marcel Mauss and René Girard
- Berdyaev – The Primacy of Freedom
- Can Evolutionary Biology and Naturalism Provide a Foundation for Morality?
- Berdyaev: Why God and the Person Must be the Highest Ideal
- Perry Marshall’s Evolution 2.0
- Ex Machina: A Story of Chaste Love Murdered by the Ending
- Is God Omniscient?
- Reconciling Plato and Berdyaev via the Phaedrus
- Morality and Intuitions of Metaphysical Truths
- René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
- The Illogicality of Determinism
- The Illogicality of Determinism – Further Considerations
- Gödel’s Theorem
- The Halting Problem
- Mystery and Order: The Right and Left Hemispheres
- Consciousness: What is It and Where is It Found?
- Aesthetic Knowledge
- Darwin vs Morality: trying to find a biological basis for morality
- Monsters of Duty: Cordwainer Smith's Attack on Kantian Duty and the Suppression of Feeling in "Scanners Live in Vain"
- Foundationalism: In Praise of Vagueness
- Utilitarianism: a new kind of evil
- Sam Harris: the unconverted
- The Fantasy of Promiscuity
- Philosophy and the Crisis of the Modern World
- John Locke: Quantifying Reality
- Nietzsche – The Diabolical Saint of Acceptance: Explaining Why He Appeals to Both Right and Left
- Plato’s Cave
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 1996
BA, Philosophy and English; MA (hons), University of Canterbury, 1990