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Western Carolina University
Department of Philosophy and Religion

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  • Katharine Mershon, Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture
    Columbia University Press. 2026.
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  • John Whitmire, An Archaeology of Hope and Despair in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
    Tolkien Studies 20 59-76. 2023.
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  • David Henderson, Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds), Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
    Environmental Values 32 (4): 507-509. 2023.
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  • John Whitmire and David Henderson, The Lord of the Rings as Philosophy: Environmental Enchantment and Resistance in Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien
    In David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 827-854. 2022.
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  • John F. Whitmire, Apocalyptic "Madness": Strategies for Reading Ecce Homo
    In Duncan Large & Nicholas Martin (eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”, De Gruyter. pp. 335-359. 2020.
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  • David Henderson, Wilderness in America: Philosophical Writings by Henry Bugbee
    Ethics and the Environment 24 (2): 67-72. 2019.
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  • Katharine Mershon, The Theology of Dog Training in Vicki Hearne's Adam's Task
    Religions 25 (10). 2019.
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  • John Whitmire, Finding meaning in the curriculum: orienting philosophy majors to a meaningful life as a primary learning outcome
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 79 (4): 451-457. 2018.
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  • John Whitmire, A Slow Apprenticeship with the Real
    In Steven M. Cahn, Alexandra Bradner & Andrew P. Mills (eds.), Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching, Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 132-144. 2018.
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  • David Henderson, Reviews (review)
    Environmental Values 25 (2): 244-246. 2016.
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  • Katharine Mershon, The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron S. Gross (review)
    Journal of Religion 96 (3): 404-405. 2016.
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  • David Henderson, American Wilderness Philosophy
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2014.
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  • Farhang Erfani and John Whitmire, A New Fragility: Ricoeur in the Age of Globalization
    In Paul Ricoeur: Honoring and Continuing the Work, Lexington Books. 2011.
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  • John Whitmire, Reconstructing the Religious: Deconstruction, Transfiguration, and Witnessing in The Point of View and On My Work as an Author
    In Robert L. Perkins (ed.), International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Point of View, Mercer Univ Pr. pp. 325-358. 2010.
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  • John Whitmire, The Many and the One: The Ontological Multiplicity and Functional Unity of the Person in the Later Nietzsche
    The Pluralist 4 (1). 2009.
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  • Farhang Erfani and John Whitmire, Ricoeur and the pre-political
    Continental Philosophy Review 41 (4): 501-521. 2008.
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  • John Whitmire, Questioning the Self: Kierkegaard and Derrida
    Philosophy Today 50 (4): 418-427. 2006.
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  • John Whitmire, The double writing of Les mots: Sartre's words as performative philosophy
    Sartre Studies International 12 (2): 61-82. 2006.
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  • John Whitmire, On the Subject of Autobiography: Finding a Self in the Works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Derrida
    Dissertation, Villanova University. 2005.
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  • Farhang Erfani and John Whitmire, Exile and the Philosophical Challenge to Citizenship
    In Michael Hanne (ed.), Creativity in Exile, Rodopi. pp. 41-56. 2004.
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