Philosophy & Religion Office Information
Department Chair: Andrew Mills
Location: Towers Hall 320, 1 S. Grove St.
Hours: Monday – Friday (8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
Contact: Patti Welch, Academic Administrative Assistant
Phone: 614-823-1361
Email: pwelch@otterbein.edu
Faculty
Dylan Flint
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dylan Flint is a passionate educator with a wide range of interests, including Normative, Professional, and Applied Ethics, Asian Religions, Philosophy of Religion, and Metaphysics. His background is in the History of Philosophy, having published on Leibniz's theories of modality, freedom, and divine agency. He is currently working on a number of projects, including a project at the intersection of Professional Ethics and Asian Religions. He argues that cultivating a Wu Wei (or “effortless action”) mindset can be the perfect…
Abigail Kulisz
Assistant Professor
Abigail Kulisz is a scholar of religion with a specialization in medieval Christianity and Islam. Her research focuses on the shared scriptural, literary, and creative imagination between Christians and Muslims in the seventh to tenth centuries, as well as the ongoing resonances of the medieval religious world in the present day. She is particularly interested in psychoanalytic theory as a significant site of inquiry for articulations of psychic and textual encounters, both past and present. Her current research project reads…
Andrew Mills
Professor & Department Chair
Andrew Mills arrived at Otterbein in 1999 and since that time has taught a wide range of courses in Philosophy, Integrative Studies, Senior Year Experience, First Year Seminars, and Honors. His teaching interests are wide ranging--everything from logic to Socrates to Existentialism. He has a strong interest in the history of philosophy (especially the classical period in Greece and Rome and the early modern period in Europe), in environmental philosophy, and in the philosophy of happiness & well-being. He has…
Staff
