Virgil W. Brower began teaching ethics to off-duty police officers at the Chicago Police Academy. He became the Full-Time Lecturer of Philosophy at Chicago State University where he taught logic, critical thinking, philosophy of law, comparative religion, and political science
for over a decade. During his last few years at CSU he served as administrator of the Honors College in which he taught humanities and the philosophy of science while coordinating their social outreach volunteer program. He holds two Ph.D.s, one in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern and the other in Theology & Ethics from the Chicago Theological Seminary. Ba…
Virgil W. Brower began teaching ethics to off-duty police officers at the Chicago Police Academy. He became the Full-Time Lecturer of Philosophy at Chicago State University where he taught logic, critical thinking, philosophy of law, comparative religion, and political science
for over a decade. During his last few years at CSU he served as administrator of the Honors College in which he taught humanities and the philosophy of science while coordinating their social outreach volunteer program. He holds two Ph.D.s, one in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern and the other in Theology & Ethics from the Chicago Theological Seminary. Based in the Department of Philosophy for the former, his research concentrated on practical ethics, philosophy of religion, modern philosophy, and phenomenology. In seminary he taught constructive theology, specializing in literary theory, liberation theologies, psychoanalysis, and political theology. Virgil is currently a Research Fellow of Theology & Contemporary Culture in the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Charles University. He was elected and served as coordinating speaker to the Arbeitsgruppe Medienphilosophie of the Society of German Media Studies, during which he co-edited the 2021 International Yearbook of Media Philosophy.
