Fred Evans (philosopher)

notoc Fred Evans (born June 6, 1944) is an American philosopher. He is a Professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and Director of the Center for Interpretative and Qualitative Research. His research and teaching interests are in contemporary continental philosophy (Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Deleuze), social and political philosophy, and philosophy of language, psychology and technology. Evans was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work is informed both by his experiences as a psychologist and his time spent working under the auspices of an NGO in Laos during the 1970s. A reflection on these influences and his academic and activist work can be found in his brief intellectual biography at Duquesne's website. 1966 B.A. Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington 1969 M.A. Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington 1977 M.A. Psychology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 1986 Ph.D. Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (2008) The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity, Columbia University Press (2000) Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh , co-edited with Leonard Lawlor, State University of New York Press (1993) Psychology and Nihilism: A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind, State University of New York Press "Voices of Democracy: Citizenship and Public Art (Millennium Park)," in Outrage! Art, Controversy, and Society, eds. Andrea Ritivoi and Judith Schachter (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming). "Foucault and the 'Being of Language'," in The Cambridge-Foucault Lexicon, eds. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). "9/11: The 'Clash of Civilizations' and Cultural Rights," Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 14, Winter, 2011. “’Unnatural Participations’: Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, and Environmental Ethics,” Philosophy Today, 54, 142-152. "Deleuze, Bakhtin, and the 'Clamour of Voices', Deleuze Studies, vol. 2(2), 2008, 178-200.