Dr. Dennis Hudecki

Dr. Dennis Hudecki

Job Title:

 Associate Professor, Philosophy

Type:

 Full-Time Faculty

Email:

 dhudecki@uwo.ca

Phone:

 519.432.8353 x28245

Office:

 Ursuline Hall 235 B

Research and Scholarly Interests

  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Kierkegaard
  • Wittgenstein
  • Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
  • Aquinas
  • Ethics
  • Existentialism
  • History of Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy
  • Evolution
  • Philosophy of art

Other Areas of Scholarly Research & Interest

  • Catholicism
  • Feminism
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Rock Music
  • Informal Logic, Reasoning and Critical Thinking
  • Abortion
  • Euthanasia
  • Sexual Ethics
  • Freedom of Speech
  • Philosophical, Political and Ethical Issues Arising from Human Rights Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Sport

Recent Representative Publications

  • “A Critique of Suits’s (Alleged) Counterexample to Wittgenstein’s Position on the Definability of ‘Game’”, co-authored with Ralph H. Johnson, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2019
  • Hudecki, D. “Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism, From a Religious Perspective”
  • Hudecki, D. “Religious Freedom, Exclusivism and Tolerance”

Recent Conference Presentations

  • “Kierkegaard’s Objections to Hegel’s View of History”

Recent Administrative Experience

  • Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, 2006–07
  • Council of Trustees, 2003–2009
  • President, Brescia Faculty Association, 2007-2015
  • Chair of the Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, 2011–2015
  • Chief External Reviewer of Redeemer’s Philosophy Programme, 2016