Welcome to the newest member of our advisory council, Dr. Douglas Giles, PhD!🎉🎉🎉‼️
Dr. Douglas Giles is an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Elmhurst University where he teaches part-time to be able to devote more time to research and writing. He studied philosophy and religious studies at the University of Minnesota and earned his PhD in social-political philosophy at the University of Essex with a thesis on “Rethinking Misrecognition and Struggles for Recognition: Critical Theory Beyond Honneth.”
His primary research applies a phenomenological approach to the lived experiences and actions of individuals, groups, and social and political institutions. His research helps us better understand social injustices and how people respond to them and how individuals construct and maintain personal identities and social meanings. He has published on the theory of recognition, critical theory, and political philosophy. His books include How We Are and How We Got Here: A Practical History of Western Philosophy, and Left Wing, Right Wing, People, and Power: The Core Dynamics of Political Action.
Dr. Giles discovered Dr. Stegmaier’s philosophy of orientation in 2023 and quickly became a convert to this insightful approach to philosophy. He now incorporates the philosophy of orientation into his research into politics, lived experience, and identity formation.
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