Dr. Joel Hunter
Honors Faculty Fellow
Sage South 152
P| 480-727-7039
F| 480-965-0760
E| joel.hunter@asu.edu
Dr. Hunter joined the faculty of Barrett Honors College in 2008. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1990) and worked in the power generation industry and environmental consulting whilst completing his Master’s degree in philosophy from Georgia State University (1998). He formed his own environmental consulting business in 1996 specializing in the design and construction of remediation systems. He completed his PhD in philosophy from the University of Kentucky in 2008 (dissertation on phenomenology and physics). Since 1999, he has taught a wide spectrum of undergraduate philosophy courses.
Joel’s primary research area is the products and practices of scientific experimentation. His approach is rooted in phenomenological philosophy, but seeks complementarity in the “analytic” and “continental” analyses of the natural sciences with the aim of articulating a material-aesthetic philosophy of science.
Joel’s other areas of teaching and research interest include aesthetics, especially music; the systematic intersections between science, philosophy and religion; social and political thought, including the history and philosophy of utopias, the meaning and analysis of technology, and the thought of Jacques Ellul; and imaginative literature, including fairy stories in general, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and the work of J. R. R. Tolkien in particular.
HON 171 Syllabus
HON 273 Syllabus: The Human Event (Science Focus)
