Joshua Rust
Professor of Philosophy
Much of my work is animated by the thought that our theorizing is helpfully complicated when we displace the dominant metaphor of the machine with that of the organism. For example, what happens when we begin to conceive of some organizations, not so much as vehicles by which we more effectively realize what we want, but more as agents that seem to be responsive to agendas that aren't a simple function of the agendas of their members?
- PhD, University of California at Riverside
Biography
Joshua is a Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California - Riverside. He is the author of two books, John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality (Continuum, 2005) and John Searle (Continuum, 2009). He is also an author or co-author of various articles in social ontology, philosophy of biology, and empirical philosophy.
More About Joshua Rust
Areas of Expertise
- Social Ontology
- Experimental Philosophy
- Cognitive Science
- John R. Searle
- Philosophy of Biology
Course Sampling
- Social Ontology
- Philosophy of Law
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Experimental Philosophy
- Joshua Rust. 2009. John Searle. London; New York: Continuum.
- Joshua Rust. 2006. John Searle and The Construction of Social Reality. Continuum Studies in American Philosophy.
London; New York: Continuum. - Joshua Rust. 2023 "Enactivist social ontology." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
- Joshua Rust. 2023 "Institutional Genidentity." Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
- Joshua Rust. 2022. "Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response."
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. - Joshua Rust. 2021. "Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation." History and Philosophy of
the Life Sciences 43. 1-25. - Joshua Rust. 2021 "Max Weber and Social Ontology." Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 51(3) 312342.
- Joshua Rust. 2019. "Institutional Identity." Journal of Social Ontology. AOP.
- Joshua Rust. 2018. "Traditional Action and Traditional Authority". Max Weber Studies. 18 (2): 15985.
- Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust. 2009. The Moral Behaviour of Ethicists: Peer Opinion. Mind 118(472): 1043-59.