The University of Alabama in Huntsville Political Science Department


 

 

Dr. Pottenger's Page


phone: 256-824-6835

email: pottenj@email.uah.edu

office: Morton Hall 250

 

B.A. (Political Science) and M.A. (Political Theory), Arizona State University
Ph.D. (Political Philosophy), University of Maryland

Professor Pottenger teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in political theory and philosophy. He is especially interested in problems of epistemology, ethics, and theory construction of Platonic philosophy, political theology, and philosophy of science. Representative publications include: "Religion, Politics, and the Challenge of Political Hermeneutics," American Review of Politics (1997); "The Sage and the Sophist: A Commentary on Plato's Lesser Hippias," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy (1995); The Political Theory of Liberation Theology: Toward a Reconvergence of Social Values and Social Science (1989).