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Brian Schroeder

Professor, Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

585-475-6346
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Department of Philosophy Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623

Brian Schroeder

Professor, Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BA, Edinboro College; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; MA, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Bio

Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has published widely on Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, environmental philosophy, East Asian philosophy, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He is co-editor of the SUNY Press Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy and the SUNY Press Series in Transcontinental Philosophy. Currently he serves on the executive committees of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle and the Society for Italian Philosophy. He is formerly co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, co-director and chair of the board of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, director of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, and executive committee member of the Nietzsche Society. For more information, including publications, please go to https://rit.academia.edu/sbs.

He is also a Soto Zen priest and Buddhist chaplain at RIT, where he guides the Idunno Zen Community. For more information, please go to https://vimeo.com/212931642/ad9f557d3b

Currently Teaching

PHIL-301
3 Credits
This course will examine critically definitions, assumptions, and arguments central to religion. Topics may include interpreting the nature of religion, arguments for and against the existence of God, the relation between theology and philosophy, the relation between God and the world, paganism, the problem of evil, and the nature of religious language and experience.
PHIL-311
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the origin and development of the philosophical traditions of primarily China and Japan through a consideration of selected thinkers, schools, and classic texts of Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen. Questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics are emphasized with reference to the nature of reality and the person, social harmony and self-realization, causality, right action, and enlightenment. Comparisons may also be made with Western philosophers, both contemporary and classical.

In the News

  • September 16, 2024

    photo of rochester at night with text that says society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 62 annual meeting september 26-28, in rochester

    RIT-Hosted Conference Draws 600 Philosophers to Rochester

    The RIT Department of Philosophy will host the world’s largest meeting for continental philosophy later this month, drawing up to 600 people together from across the country and around the world for three days of thoughtful dialogue on some of today’s most complex ideas and issues.