Charles Taliaferro
Office: Holland Hall 506
Phone: 507-786-3662
Email: taliafer@stolaf.edu
Spring 2013 Office Hours: By appointment
Professor Taliaferro's Curriculumn Vitae
Ph.D., M.A., Brown University; M.T.S., Harvard University; M.A., University of Rhode Island; B.A., Goddard College
Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, is the author or
co-author, editor or co-editor of twenty books, most recently The Image in Mind; Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination (Continuum),
co-authored with Jil Evans. With Stewart Goetz he is the co-author of
A Brief History of the Soul (Blackwell) and co-editor
of the The Routledge Companion to Theism. Taliaferro has
been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Princeton, NYU, and Columbia, and
he is the philosophy of religion area editor for Blackwell’s
Philosophy Compass and the Book Review Editor for Faith and
Philosophy. He has given lectures at Oxford, Cambridge, University of
St. Andrews (Scotland), Yale, NYU, University of Chicago, the
Gregorian (Rome), University of Beijing (China), and elsewhere.
Taliaferro is a member of APA Committee on the Status and Future of
the Profession. He is currently working on projects in philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, ethics (with a focus on environmental
ethics), and aesthetics. For a full list of publications, grants, and
other information, see his CV (link above).
In addition to scholarship, Taliaferro also contributes to philosophy
and popular culture volumes; the topics include the Olympics, Narnia,
Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Tolkien, Spider-Man. He has been
voted to give the Last Lecture to eight out of the last fourteen
graduating classes at St. Olaf College. In 2006, Cowley Press
published over forty essays of his on love in Love. Love. Love. And
Other Essays.