68 Facts About Randall Auxier

Randall Auxier is a radio host for WDBX Carbondale since 2001, a widely read author of popular philosophy, and a co-founder and co-director of the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought.

Randall Auxier was one of the many students who were bused to integrated schools by court orders that resulted from Brown v Board of Education.

Randall Auxier was in first grade when Martin Luther King Jr.

In philosophy, Randall Auxier specializes in classical American thought, process metaphysics and theology, intensive logics, aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture, of science, of religion, and of education.

Randall Auxier teaches and writes on Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, JJ Bachofen, Charles Peirce, Henri Bergson, Josiah Royce, William James, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Charles Hartshorne, Jaakko Hintikka, Arthur Danto, and Umberto Eco.

Randall Auxier attended Graves Road Elementary School, Graceland Junior High School, and Hillcrest High School, all belonging to the Memphis City Schools.

Court ordered busing commenced in January 1973, and Randall Auxier remained in public schools while most of his white schoolmates were sent to all-white private schools.

Randall Auxier attended Memphis State University from 1979 to 1981, majoring in Criminal Justice.

Randall Auxier left school in the fall of 1981, playing bass guitar and singing professionally in several local bands.

Randall Auxier returned to Memphis State in the fall of 1984 and received an undergraduate degree in philosophy and criminal justice in 1986.

Randall Auxier was awarded an assistantship at Memphis State to pursue a master's degree in philosophy, and began teaching in 1987.

Randall Auxier went on to receive a fellowship and assistantship to pursue doctoral work at Emory University, completing the Ph.

Randall Auxier's dissertation examined the theories of signs and symbols that applied to the language of metaphysics, discussing principally the works of Cassirer, Langer, Peirce, and Eco.

In 2016, Randall Auxier was a visiting professor at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw, and in 2017 and 2018, he was visiting professor of philosophy in the Institute of Philosophy of the university or Warsaw.

The original publisher, Mercer University Press, dropped the publication that year, and Randall Auxier was obliged to raise funds to keep the publication afloat until 2005, when the University of Illinois Press took on the publishing responsibilities for the journal.

In 2001, Randall Auxier was appointed editor of the Library of Living Philosophers, the third in its history, following series founder Paul Arthur Schilpp, and Lewis Edwin Hahn.

Figures whose volumes were completed after 2013 but for which Randall Auxier was principal editor include Hilary Putnam and Umberto Eco.

Randall Auxier initiated a volume on Julia Kristeva which is in progress.

Randall Auxier has authored or co-authored many lectures and presentations around the United States and in other countries, has written many scholarly articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and translations.

Randall Auxier's journalism includes articles and book reviews for the Carbondale Nightlife and the Carbondale Times, and he authored articles and fiction for Empirical Magazine while it was operating.

Randall Auxier writes a regular blog for Radically Empirical, an online magazine that features essays and commentary on current and literary affairs.

Randall Auxier has been awarded the Jacobsen Prize in Process Metaphysics from the International Society for Universalism and the Douglas Greenlee Prize from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

Randall Auxier holds that symbolic reasoning is expressive, emotive, diachronic, and largely unreflective.

Randall Auxier argues that possibility should be thought of as uncreated and unaffected by temporal passage.

Randall Auxier is a radical empiricist in method, following James, Bergson, and Whitehead.

Randall Auxier holds that the largely extensive forms of reasoning that characterize spatialized sign-operations are guided by reflective norms of thinking overlap with but are not identical to the norms of temporal, functional symbol-thinking.

Randall Auxier emphasizes the role of imagination in symbol creation in line with Kantian and neo-Kantian theories, such as Cassirer's.

Randall Auxier follows Cassirer in holding that the human consciousness of the development of culture is conditioned by symbol creation, which proceeds along at least three fundamental lines: myth, language, and objectivating consciousness.

Randall Auxier holds that mythic consciousness endures as human culture is increasingly refined and is never far from the basis of human thinking.

Randall Auxier holds that most human thinking is communal, embodied, and active, while individual thinking is most often a pathology of symbolic consciousness.

Randall Auxier opposes both old-style humanism and every form of individualism.

Randall Auxier holds that valuable life and fully human development is evident in traditional human life and that the individualism of the Western world is a tragic development.

Randall Auxier uses the vehicle of popular culture to explain and illustrate his more formal philosophical views, especially regarding aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

Randall Auxier sees popular culture as continuous with high culture and generally to be preferred over high culture as livelier and more important to the community as a whole.

In ethics and political philosophy, Randall Auxier is a personalist who follows primarily the views of Royce, Borden Parker Bowne, Edgar Sheffield Brightman, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Randall Auxier holds that communities are persons in a more concrete and more enduring sense that are biological individuals.

Randall Auxier allows that corporations and other historical institutions are indeed persons, but often dysfunctional persons whose community values and structures beget alienated and pathological individuals.

Randall Auxier holds, contrary to classical liberalism, that politics is a subdivision of ethics and cannot be divorced from human moral life.

Randall Auxier holds that the dignity of personality is the highest value in the field of values humans are capable of recognizing, and includes the ani mal and plant worlds as forms of existence that exemplify in some degree, however slight, personality.

Randall Auxier insists that humans are morally obliged to remain open to the possibility that personality characterizes the whole order of the cosmos, not just the portion regarded as living or human, and must consider that possibility in forming and enacting their ethical values.

Randall Auxier is a communitarian and sympathizes with the ideas of such classical conservatives as David Hume, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke, insofar as they agree that meaningful change is always slow, what happens to the least in the community happens to the whole community, that economic development must include in its very conception the entire community.

Randall Auxier holds with Royce and Gifford Pinchot that conservation of nature is the basis of democratic life and that whatever damages nature damages democracy.

Randall Auxier holds that communities which produce independent individuals will both benefit from that process and suffer from the inevitable betrayals that strong individuals choose, in their tragic isolation.

Randall Auxier teaches and advocates a version of nonviolence that derives from both King and Mohandas Gandhi.

Randall Auxier argues that almost every problem confronted by human beings, individually and collectively, are solved without the use of violence and that therefore resorting to violence is an aberration in human experience.

Randall Auxier argues that one hundred percent of human problems can be solved without violence and that the use of violence never genuinely solves any human problem.

Randall Auxier holds that aesthetic feeling is the basis for both meaning and symbol creation.

Randall Auxier defends a view of images that draws from Bergson's account in Matter and Memory.

Randall Auxier rejects the idea that genuine art can be created without reflection.

Randall Auxier has argued that music has a singular place in the formation of both human feeling and human culture.

Randall Auxier follows the aesthetic theory of Susanne Langer in this regard, but departs from her understanding of the relation of time with rhythm and feeling, especially where Langer fails to recognize the complementarity between her views of image and Bergson's views.

Randall Auxier holds that visual images are much more complex and mediated, by comparison, and that the most likely hypothesis about our experience of visual images and the virtual space in which they exist for our perception, is that humans learned to create this space by generalizing from their experience of the contrast between sounds and tones.

Randall Auxier applies his metaphysics, logic, ethics and aesthetics to the critique of science by opposing reductionist and model-centric versions of scientific knowledge.

Randall Auxier defends the principle of evolution but writes against Darwinism and other narrow versions of the science.

Where evolutionary science crosses into making philosophical claims unsupported by the science itself, Randall Auxier calls scientific theorists back toward humbler conclusions that genuinely carry scientific warrant.

Randall Auxier writes against Einstein's philosophical conclusions drawn from the theory of General Relativity, which Auxier regards as primarily a philosophical rather than a scientific theory.

Randall Auxier holds that theology must be done in accordance with the methods and norms of philosophy and that even when theology is the source of new methods and forms of analysis, these methods and forms must be judged according to philosophical rather than theological norms.

Randall Auxier defends a pluralistic and culturally embedded ideal of human religious life, holding that ritual, which is found in the animal world in full continuity with the human world, viewed as a version of animality.

Randall Auxier argues that myth is superadded to ritual as an independent companion to it, making a second aesthetic level tinged with reflection available to humans who enact rituals.

Randall Auxier rejects the claim that myth developed to explain ritual as an overly reductive and unknowable hypothesis.

Randall Auxier holds that religious experience can be engendered both through the repetition of rituals and through the experience of novelty, but the novelty must be integrated into the familiar patterns in order for the feeling of value it carries to be retained.

Randall Auxier commonly criticizes Calvinist views in his writings, sometimes quite harshly.

Randall Auxier visited the imprisoned to spread music in Oklahoma and Illinois, as well as visiting nursing homes and homes for the developmentally disabled, most often as a musician.

Randall Auxier joined the Illinois Education Association in 2000 and was elected to the Departmental Representatives Council, supporting the SIU Faculty Association during collective bargaining cycles of 2001 and 2003.

Randall Auxier testified at these proceedings and assisted the claimant's legal team, the Illinois Education Association.

Randall Auxier spoke from his radio show, wrote for local papers, spoke and played at rallies and meetings, and participated in the electoral efforts of the Green Party.

In October 2017 Randall Auxier was caucused, in Nashville, Illinois, as the recognized candidate of the Shawnee Green Party to run for US Congress, 12th District of Illinois, where the Green Party is an established party by state electoral requirements.

Randall Auxier's candidacy became official December 4,2016 and has been endorsed by the Illinois Green Party.