B.A. University of
Vermont/Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg (1992)
M.A. California Institute of Integral Studies (1998)
Ph.D. Tulane University (2009)
Email:
gruenig@tulane.edu
Office:
105C
Phone:
504-862-3379
Academic Interests:
- Continental Philosophy (Heidegger)
- Eastern Philosophy (Buddhism)
- Applied Philosophy
- Environmental Ethics
Awards:
- Murphy Institute Dissertation Fellowship
- Freie Universität Berlin Exchange Fellowship
- Mortar Board Award for Outstanding Teaching
- Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Leadership
- Phi Beta Kappa Award for Scholarship
Current Research:
- Heidegger & Personal Transformation
- Analytic & Phenomenological Approaches to Emptiness in Buddhism
Presentations:
- "Buddhist Ethics and Just War Theory: On whether war can be justified
from within Buddhist ethical systems," Annual Conference of the Society
for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Asilomar (2004).
- "Mental Synthesis in Hume, Kant, and Theravada
Buddhism: On whether the theory of mind moments found in Theravadan
sources such as the Abhidhammatha-Sangaha is susceptible to the same
critique of mental synthesis that Kant applied to Hume," Society for
Asian and Comparative Philosophy Panel, American Academy of Religion
Meeting, Denver (2001).
- "Jhanasis: Meditation and Creation. Momentary noetic
cosmogenesis, Genesis 1-4, and the Aggañña Sutta
in light of the phenomenology of meditation as it is detailed in the
Pali Canon," 4th Intl. Research Conference of the Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia (2000).
- "Postmodernism and Environmental Ethics:
Deconstruction is a Double-Edged Sword," (with Michael Zimmerman) at
Tulane's Interdisciplinary Scholars Network lecture series "The Local
and the Global" (1999).
- "On The Locus of Meaning: Disembodied Phenomenology,
Embodied Phenomenology, and Existential Neurobiology," at the CIIS
Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Roundtable (1998).
