Lee Hardy
- Dr. Lee Hardy
- Professor Emeritus
- Philosophy, Urban Studies
- Hiemenga Hall 347 (Map)
- (616) 526-6417
- lhardy@calvin.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
- PhD, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 1987
- MA, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1981
- MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University, 1979
- BA, Philosophy, Trinity Christian College,1976
Biography
Professor Hardy's hobbies include urban design, graphic design and photography.
Academic interests
- Phenomenology
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Cultural History of Urbanism
Publications
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The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods (with online resources)
by Lee Hardy
Published: September 15, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-937555-25-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-937555-26-9 -
The Little Logic Book
by Lee Hardy, Del Ratzsch, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Gregory Mellema
Published: September 16, 2013
ISBN: 9781937555108
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The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work
Published: May 4, 1990
ISBN: 978-0802802989
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Nature’s Suit: Husserl’s Phenomenological Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
by Lee Hardy
Published: January 15, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2066-9
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8214-4470-2
“One Table or Two? Scientific Anti-Realism and Husserl’s Phenomenology.” Continental Philosophy Review 54:1 (2021), 1-16.
“Physical Things, Ideal Objects, and Theoretical Entities: The Prospects of a Husserlian Phenomenology of Physics,” in Phenomenological Approaches to Physics, edited by Harald Wiltsche and Philipp Berghofer (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020), pp. 135-155.
“The Deity Figured and Disfigured: Hume on Philosophical Theism and Vulgar Religion,” in Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, edited J. Diller and A. Kasher (Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2013), pp. 695-703.
“Hume’s Defense of True Religion,” in The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, edited by Nathan Jacobs and Chris Firestone (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. 251-272.
“Kant’s Reidianism: the Role of Common Sense in Kant’s Epistemology of Religious Belief,” in Kant’s Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality, edited by Benjamin Bruxvoort Lipscomb and James Krueger, (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2010), pp. 233-254.
"Nature and Nature’s God: The Religious Background of the Garden City Movement,” in Christian Scholars Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4, (Summer 2009), pp. 435-456.
"Context and Temporality: Heidegger’s View of the Person,” in Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, edited by Kelly James Clark and Chen Xia, Sichuan University Press, 2005, pp. 234-248 [in Chinese].
"How to Destroy the World Without Hurting Anyone: The Existential Import of Husserl’s Idealism,” in Fenomenologica Hoje, edited by R. T. De Souza and N. F. De Oliveira, (Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2001), pp. 121-135.
"Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche’s Critique of Knowledge,” in Christian Philosophy and Postmodern Thought, edited by Merold Westphal, (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999).
“Phenomenology and Logical Positivism,” in The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), pp. 425-430.
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