Dr. John Harfouch Associate Professor, Pre-Law Advisor, Philosophy Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 222Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2337john.nale@uah.edu Biography Dr. Harfouch researches the mind-body problem and the concept of race. His recent essay, Kant's Racial Mind-Body Unions," argues that Kant's concept of race should be recognized as a solution to the problem. He is wrapping up a manuscript entitled "Another Mind-Body Problem: Mind, Body, and Race from Descartes to Kant," which argues that the mind-body problem is less a problem of beings that lack unity, but rather unifies minds and bodies that lack being. Earlier this year, Dr. Harfouch saw The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon appear, a volume of which he is co-editor. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 2011 M.A., Philosophy, University of Memphis, 2008 B.A., Philosophy, The George Washington University, 2003 Honors & Awards Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students Nominee, Penn State University, 2010 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee, Penn State University, 2010 Penn State University Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2008-2011 University of Memphis Graduate Assistant Fellowship, 2004-2008 Awarded 'Distinction' on Comprehensive Exam in Ancient Philosophy, University of Memphis, August 2005 The George Washington University, Presidential Scholarship, 2001-2003 Expertise Modern Philosophy Critical Race Theory 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy Recent Publications “Anticolonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought: A Philosopher’s Introduction” (Accepted with revisions at Critical Philosophy of Race) “A Subaltern Pain: The Problem of Violence in Philosophy’s Pain Discourse.” Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture. vol. 3, no. 3, 2019, pp. 127-144. Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being (SUNY Press, 2018) Reviewed in Choice Magazine, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Hypatia, Journal of the History of Philosophy “Does Leibniz Have Any Role in the History of Racism?” Philosophy Today. vol. 61, no. 3, 2017, pp. 737-755. “The Arab That Cannot Be Killed: Orientalism’s Genocidal Logic.” Radical Philosophy Review. vol. 20, no. 2, 2017, pp. 219-241. “Kant’s Racial Mind-Body Unions.” Continental Philosophy Review. vol. 48, 2015, pp. 41-58. “Descartes on the Disposition of the Blood and the Substantial Union of Mind and Body.” Studia UBB Philosophia: Descartes’ Scientific and Philosophical Disputes with his Contemporaries. vol. 58, no. 3, 2014, pp. 109.124. “Arthur de Gobineau on Blood and Race.” Critical Philosophy of Race. vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, pp. 106-124. The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Co-edited with Leonard Lawlor. “Divisions of Manet.” Philosophy Today. vol. 51, no.1, 2007, pp. 17-25.