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Daw-Nay Evans

Daw-Nay Evans

Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
Chair of African American Studies
Chair of Philosophy

Philosophy

Education
PhD Philosophy, DePaul University
MA Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
MA Coursework in Philosophy: St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University
BA Philosophy, George Mason University

Positions Held
LFC: Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2018-Present
LFC: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2012-2018
SAIC: Instructor, 2005-2012
DePaul University: Instructor, 2004-2009

Research and Teaching Interests
Africana Philosophy
19th- and 20th-Century European Philosophy
History of Philosophy

Selected Courses Taught
FIYS 104: Africana Philosophy                                         
PHIL 117: Political Philosophy                                         
PHIL 118: Why Philosophy Matters 
PHIL/AFAM 120: Brooklyn’s Finest: JAY-Z & Philosophy
PHIL 203: Business and Professional Ethics
PHIL/AFAM 206: Letters to a Young Black Philosopher
PHIL 208: Death
PHIL 223: Does God Exist?
PHIL/AFAM 255: Philosophy of Race and Racism                     
PHIL/AFAM/CINE 258: Fight the Power: Spike Lee's Black Aesthetics
PHIL/AFAM 271: African Philosophy
PHIL/AFAM 272: African American Philosophy  
PHIL 312: Doing Philosophy in the Dark: Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 320: Back to the Things Themselves: Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida
PHIL 322: The Owl and the Hammer: From Hegel to Nietzsche
PHIL/AFAM 330: History and Philosophy of Slavery
PHIL 440: Senior Seminar: Nietzsche
PHIL 480: Senior Seminar: Heidegger’s Being and Time

Philosophy

Philosophers in the Forest

Fall 2016 PHIL 292: Hegel to Nietzsche; From Left to Right: Corey and Carly

Spring 2017 PHIL 320: Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Deconstruction; From Left to Right: Corey, Danae, Marc, Christian, Nicholas, and James

Spring 2024 PHIL 120: Brooklyn's Finest: JAY-Z and Philosophy; From Left to Right: Skai, Langston, Gavin, Andrew, Tyler, and Mal

Spring 2024 PHIL 312: Doing Philosophy in the Dark: Medieval Philosophy; From Left to Right: Cara, Ebtsam, Sam, Cindy, and Davis

Spring 2024 PHIL 312: Doing Philosophy in the Dark: Medieval Philosophy; From Left to Right: Cara, Ebtsam, Davis, Sam, and Cindy

Spring 2024 PHIL 312: Doing Philosophy in the Dark: Medieval Philosophy; From Left to Right: Cara, Ebtsam, Davis, Sam, and Cindy