Dr. Edward A. Beach

Associate Professor

Office: 615 Hibbard Hall
Telephone: (715) 836-2418 or 2545
E-mail:beachea@uwec.edu

Courses | Publications | Sample Video Clips

Fall 2005 Schedule:

• PHIL 339, Contemporary Continental Philosophy: MW 4:30-5:45
• PHIL 345, Philosophy of Religion: T Th 9:30-10:45
• RELS 110, Basic Issues in Religion: MW 2:00-3:15 and T Th 12:30-1:45
• OFFICE HOURS:  M, 2:00-3:00; W, 11:00-12:00, and by appointment 

Personal

• Married to Emily Fleisher Beach, artist and educator
• Fluent in Swedish, German, English
• B.A. in Philosophy (with Honors), Yale University, 1971
• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1980
• Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Stanford University, 1988
• Spent three years in Germany researching religious philosophy at the Schelling Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1982-84
• For a brief intellectual autobiography, see Scholarship and Curriculum Vitae
• See also Publications.

Research Areas

• 19th and 20th Century Continental European Thought
• German Idealism
• Modern Religious Thought
• Philosophy of Religion
• Comparative Religion
• History of Western Philosophy
• Asian Philosophy and Religions
• Hermeneutics
• Ethics