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Stephen D. Snyder, Ph.D.
Boğaziçi University
Department of Philosophy
34342 Bebek
Istanbul, Turkey
[email protected]
Turkey: +90 (0) 538 398 0388
U.S.A : +1 (314) 776 5173
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~stephensnyder/
Education
Saint Louis University, Ph.D. Philosophy, 2006
University of Frankfurt, Enrolled in M.A. Philosophy program, 1990-92
Manchester University, B.A. Philosophy/Computer Science, 1985
Dissertation
Title: Hegel, Nietzsche and Danto on the End of Art
Director: Dr. William C. Charron
AOS: Philosophy of Art, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy
AOC: Ethics, Applied Ethics, History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy
Academic Positions
Fulbright Scholar
Institute of the History and Theory of Art,
Ivan Javakhishvi1i Tbilisi State University, Georgia, 2018
Visiting Assistant Professor Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy, Istanbul, 2015-2017
Assistant Professor
Fatih University, Department of Philosophy, Istanbul, 2007-2015
Faculty research leave, Fatih University, fall 2012
Faculty research leave, Fatih University, 2010-2011
Associate Professor
St. Charles Community College, Department of Philosophy,
Sabbatical replacement, fall 2012
Assistant Professor
St. Charles Community College, Department of Philosophy,
Sabbatical replacement, fall 2010
Visiting Scholar
Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany, Department of Philosophy,
Erasmus faculty exchange summer 2012-2013
Visiting Scholar
Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany, Department of Turkish Studies,
Erasmus faculty exchange summer 2014
Guest Lecturer
Boğaziçi University, Department of Philosophy, spring 2015
Adjunct Instructor
Washington University, Department of Philosophy, 2005-2007
Saint Louis University, Department of Philosophy, 2006-2007, 2010-2011
St. Louis Community College, Department of Philosophy, 2007, 2010-2011
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Publications
A. Books
1. The End of Art: Symbolic Transformation and New Languages of Disclosure, contract offered by
Lexington Press.
2. New Perspectives on Distributive Justice: Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem
of Consensus, Co-edited with Manuel Knoll and Nurdane Şimşek. Under contract with De Gruyter
Press, forthcoming in 2018: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/485500.
3. The Relation of Style to Theory in the Changing Function of Art in the Eastern Roman
Empire. In progress.
B. Refereed Articles
1. “A Problem for Intergenerational Justice: Habermas on the Ability to Alter the Future of Human
Nature,” Journal of Health & Culture 2, 1 (2017).
2. “The Imperceptibility of Style in Danto‟s Theory of Art: Metaphor and the Artist‟s Knowledge,”
CounterText 1, 3 (2015): 366-381.
3. “Danto‟s Narrative Philosophy of History and the End of Art: Does Inexplicability Mean Freedom?,”
in “Art in the World Today,” ed. Ray Kolcaba , special issue, Philosophy in the Contemporary World,
22, 1 (2015): 50-66.
4. “Arthur Danto‟s Andy Warhol: The Embodiment of Theory in Art and the Pragmatic Turn,”
Leitmotiv: Topics in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 1 (2010): 135-151.
The paper can be found online at: http://www.ledonline.it/leitmotiv/Allegati/Leitmotiv-2010-0-Snyder.pdf
5. “False Negation or Critique of Modernism: Turkish Language Reform and the Rise of Islamic
Political Identity,” The International Journal of the Humanities 6, 10 (2009): 115-124.
6. “A Habermasian Critique of Danto in Defense of Gombrich‟s Theory of Visual Communication,”
Revisiones: Félix Huarte Center Journal of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art 4 (2008): 47-57.
7. “The End of Art: The Consequence of Hegel‟s Appropriation of Aristotle‟s Nous,” The Modern
Schoolman LXXXIV, 4 (2006): 301-316.
C. Edited Collections
8. “Intergenerational Justice in the Age of Genetic Manipulation,” Justice Beyond Consensus:
Distributive Solutions to the Problems of Pluralism and Conflict, ed. Stephen Snyder, Manuel Knoll
and Nurdane Şimşek (De Gruyter Press, 2018).
9. “Mitgliedschaft als soziales Gut und Rahmenbedingung für gerechte Verteilungen,” in Michael
Walzer: Sphären der Gerechtigkeit: Ein kooperativer Kommentar with a preface by Michael Walzer,
ed. Manuel Knoll and Michael Spieker in the“Staatsdiskurse” series, ed. Rüdiger Voigt (Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2014), 73-91.
10. “Nietzsche‟s Aesthetic Transvaluation and Magical Realism – Existential De-Centering in Berji
Kristin Tales from the Garbage Hills,” in Theories of Art Design and Aesthetics, co-authored with
Angela Hamilton (Akdeniz University Press, 2012), 138-143.
11. “The Epic Hero in the Anti-Epic: The Man in Cormac McCarthy‟s The Road,” in The Hero in
Western Literature, co-authored with Angela Hamilton (Pamukkale University Press, 2010), 43-50.
12. “Danto‟s Narrative Notion of History and the Future of Art,” in The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual
Culture, ed. Ondřej Dadejík and Jakub Stejskal (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 114-124.
13. "Truth and Illusion in 24," in 24 and Philosophy, ed. Jennifer Weed, Ronald Weed and Richard
Davis (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 43-54.
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D. Translations (German to English)
14. Shun‟ichi Takayanagi, “Hans Urs von Balthasar and Aesthetics,” The Modern Schoolman LXXXI,
2 (2004): 121-134. Texts translated from German by Stephen Snyder.
15. Karl-Otto Apel, “Kant‟s „Toward Perpetual Peace‟ as Historical Prognosis from the Point of View
of Moral Duty,” trans. Stephen Snyder in Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal, ed.
James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachman (MIT Press, 1997), 79-110.
E. Book Reviews, Online Publications, Etc.
16. “Gezi Park and the Transformative Power of Art,” Gezi Symposium: Reflections on a Revolution in
Roar Magazine: (January 2014), http://roarmag.org/2014/01/nietzsche-gezi-power-art/.
17. Abstract of “The End of Art: The Consequence of Hegel‟s Appropriation of Aristotle‟s Nous,” in
the Bibliography of Hegel-Studien 43 (2008), 283.
18. “Gombrich‟s History of Representation and the Breakdown of Visual Communication,” in The
Gombrich Archive, ed. Richard Woodfield (July 2007), http://www.gombrich.co.uk/commentary.php.
19. Review of Iconoclasm in Aesthetics by Michael Kelly, The Modern Schoolman LXXXIII, 3 (2006):
249-254.
F. Published Photography and Exhibitions
1. Echoes of Resistance Before the Coup Attempt: Gezi Protests and Aesthetic Displacement, Photo
Exhibition for Panel on Current Issues in Turkish Politics, St. Louis Community College, Fall 2016.
2. Re-visions of History: The Redefining of Identity in the Middle East, Photo Exhibition for
International Education Week, St. Louis Community College, Fall 2015.
3. Three Youth in the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, 52nd City April (2008).
4. Lance Blomgren, “Interview with Simparch,” Matrix 63 (2003): 45-55. Documenta 11 photographs
by Stephen Snyder.
5. Lance Blomgren, “Art of Engagement,” Ascent 16 (2002): 50. Free Basin photograph by Stephen
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Conference Papers and Invited Talks
1. “Narrative Philosophy of History and the End of Art: Danto on Explanation and Freedom,” invited
speaker, University of Hildesheim, Germany, June 2017.
2. “The Connection between Inexplicability and Freedom: History as Narrative or Process?” invited
speaker, Istanbul Technical University, June 2017.
3. “The Image of St. George Killing Diocletian: Worldview in Perspective as Resistance Art,” Annual
Conference of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy: The Strength, Power, and Force of Images from
an Intercultural Perspective, Vienna, September 2016.
4. “Causality in Perspective: Resistance in the Image of St. George Killing Diocletian,” Presentation at
Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts Research Workshop, Tbilisi, July 2016.
5. “A Critical Hermeneutical Reading of Danto‟s Narrative Philosophy of History and the Problem of
Style,” Faculty Colloquium, Boğaziçi University, November 2015.
6. “Changing Human Nature: A Case for Intergenerational Justice, invited speaker, BETİM
(Beşikçizade Center for Medical Humanities) seminar, Istanbul, November 2015.
7. “Turkish Language Reform and Islamic Political Identity,” invited Speaker, Istanbul University,
November 2015.
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Conference Papers and Invited Talks (continued)
8. “Artistic Creativity in Danto‟s Notion of Style and the Inaccessibility of the Subject‟s World,” in the
Philosophy of Art conference held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, April 2015.
9. “Arthur Danto's Theory of Embodied Meaning and the Art of Andy Warhol,” in the Philosophy of
Art conference held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, April 2014.
10. “The Common Structures of Power and Art: Nietzsche‟s Aesthetic Transvaluation, Latife Tekin‟s
Magical Realism, and the Gezi Park Çapulcu,” co-presented with Angela Hamilton in the Philosophy of
Art conference held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, April 2014.
11. “The Embodiment of Theory in Art: Arthur Danto and Andy Warhol,” invited speaker, National
Gallery of Art, Amman, Jordan, March 2014.
12. “Mitgliedschaft und Zugehörigkeit: Zirkularität oder Prozess?,” Walzer Tagung in der Akademie
für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany, December 2013.
13. “Nietzsche‟s Theory of Transvaluation: Gezi Park and the Power of Political Art,” in The Sanart
Turkish Aesthetics Congress, Mersin, Turkey, October 2013.
14. “Crossed Paths: The Fate of the Wheel of Fortune and the „Inner logic‟ of Symbolic Development,”
in the XIX. International Congress for Aesthetics, Krakow, Poland, July 2013.
15. “The Power of Naming: Nietzsche‟s Aesthetic Transvaluation, Latife Tekin‟s Magical Realism, and
the Gezi Park Çapulcu,” co-presented with Angela Hamilton, Philosophy-Turkish Studies Forum,
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, June 2013.
16. “Changing Human Nature: A Case for Intergenerational Justice,” in Pluralism and Conflict:
Distributive Justice Beyond Rawls and Consensus, International Conference at Fatih University,
Istanbul, June 2013.
17. “Fate, Providence and the Transformation of the Wheel of Fortune: The Effect of Worldview on
Symbolic Development,” in the Philosophy of Art conference held at the Inter-University Centre,
Dubrovnik, April 2013.
18. “Arthur Danto‟s Andy Warhol: The Embodiment of Theory in Art and the Pragmatic Turn,” invited
speaker, Boğaziçi University, March 2013.
19. "Ritual Viewing and Ritual Action," in the Philosophy of Art conference held at the Inter-University
Centre, Dubrovnik, April 2012.
20. "Emblems of Power and the Changing Function of Art in the Eastern Roman Empire," in the
Expanding the Boundaries of Rome: New Research in Early and Late Roman Art session, College Art
Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2012.
21. “Nietzsche‟s Aesthetic Transvaluation and Magical Realism – Existential De-Centering in Berji
Kristin Tales from the Garbage Hills,” co-presented with Angela Hamilton, International Symposium
on Theories of Art/ Design and Aesthetics, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, October 2011.
22. Panelist for creativity session followed by a separate presentation: “Creativity: Between Critique
and Novelty,” Foundations in Art: Theory & Education National Conference, St. Louis, April 2011.
23. “Andy Warhol: The Pragmatic Embodiment of Danto‟s Theory of Art,” faculty presentation,
organized by the St. Charles Community College Philosophy Department, St. Louis, October 2010.
24. “The Emergence of Byzantine Art from the Art of Late Antiquity: The Role of Art in Social
Change,” co-presented with Graydon Snyder, Archaeology/American Schools of Oriental Research, a
section of the Central States SBL Meeting, St. Louis, March 2010.
25. “The Problem of Anticipation in Danto's Narrative Notion of History: The Case of We Got It!,”
APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2010.
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Conference Papers and Invited Talks (continued)
26. “Opacity in Danto‟s Account of Style,” International Literary Criticism and Theory Conference
Series: Style in Theory/Styling Theory, University of Malta, November 2009.
27. “Danto‟s Narrative Notion of History and the Future of Art,” International Conference on the
Aesthetic Dimensions of Visual Culture, Charles University, Prague, October 2009.
28. “The Epic Hero in the Anti-Epic,” co-presented with Angela Hamilton, International Symposium of
Western Cultural and Literary Studies, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey, October 2009.
29. “Turkish Language Reform - Modernism and Islamic Political Identity: A Habermasian Critique,”
Conference on the Transformation and the Dynamics of (Radical) Change: Insights from Political
Theory and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, November 2008.
30. “Habermas on the Incomplete Project of Modernity: Turkish Language Reform and Islamic Political
Identity,” 6th International Conference on the Humanities, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2008.
31. “An Impossible Object: Embodied Meaning and Hegel‟s Crooked Teeth,” American Society for
Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 2007.
32. “Gombrich‟s History of Representation and the Breakdown of Visual Communication,” XVII.
International Congress for Aesthetics, METU, Ankara, Turkey, July 2007.
33. “Dialogue in Art: Gombrich‟s History of Pictorial Representation and the End of Art,” Critical
Issues Conference on Visual Literacy, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, July 2007.
34. “The Ontology of Style,” Online Conference in Aesthetics: Arthur Danto‟s Transfiguration of the
Commonplace - 25 Years Later, http://artmind.typepad.com/onlineconference, January 2007.
35. “Dialogue in Art,” American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, October 2006.
36. “Narrative Practice,” invited speaker, Department of Art and Art History, University of MissouriSaint Louis, March 2006.
37. “The End of Art: Hegel‟s Misappropriation of Aristotle‟s Nous,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference,
University of Memphis, February 2006.
38. “Hegel, Nietzsche and Danto on the End of Art,” invited speaker, Lindenwood University, St.
Louis, November 2005.
39. “The Aesthetic Tradition and the Ancient Quarrel: Hegel‟s Misappropriation of Aristotle‟s Nous,”
Saint Louis University Graduate Student Conference, September 2004.
Conferences Organized and Paper Commentaries
1. Co-organizer of Pluralism and Conflict: Distributive Justice Beyond Rawls and Consensus,
International Conference at Fatih University, June 2013.
See: http://manuelknoll.com/conference/topic.html
2. Commentator for Sonia Sedivy, “The End of Art and The Loss of Beauty: A Shared Premise,”
American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, October 2012.
3. Commentator for Matthew Goodwin, “Art in Maurice Merleau-Ponty‟s Phenomenology,” Midsouth
Philosophy Conference, February 2006.
Languages
English (native speaker)
German (fluent)
Turkish (conversational)
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Grants
Research
Feb. 2018 – Jul. 2018 - Research Grant in Georgia, “St. George Slays Diocletian: Resistance through
Perspective in Early Medieval Georgian Art,” Fulbright Scholar Program, 26,000 USD
Aug. 2016 – Jan. 2017 - Finalist - Research/Teaching Grant in Armenia, “Art of Resistance in the
Image of Saint George Killing Diocletian,” Fulbright Scholar Program, project recommended by
peer review board
May 2015 – Apr. 2016 - Project Grant, “Role of Aesthetics in Social-Political Movements: Unity
through Inclusion and Exclusion,” Fatih University Research Project Fund, 10000 TL for travel and
research expenses
May 2014 – Apr. 2015 - Project Grant, “Art and Power,” Fatih University Research Project Fund, 9000
TL for travel and research expenses
Jul. 2013 – Jun 2015 - Project Grant, “The Role of Worldview in Perception and Action: A Study of the
Art of the Eastern Roman Empire and Responses from Peripheral Regions,” Fatih University
Research Project Fund, 9000 TL for travel, equipment and research expenses
May 2013 – May 2014 – Project Grant, “The Function of Aesthetics in Turkish Islamic Civilization,”
Fatih University Research Project Fund, 6000 TL for travel and research expenses
Nov. 2011 – May 2013 - Project Grant, “Style and Theory in the Changing Function of Art in the
Eastern Roman Empire,” Fatih University Research Project Fund, 8000 TL for travel, equipment and
research expenses
Nov. 2011 - Apr. 2012 - Project Grant, “Research in Anatolian Arts and Culture,” Fatih University
Research Project Fund, 1000 TL for travel and research expenses
Aug. 1993 - Jun. 1994 – Research Assistant to William Rehg, Saint Louis University, Department of
Philosophy
Teaching
Jul. 2014 – Erasmus Mobility Grant, 1200 Euros
Jun. 2013 – Erasmus Mobility Grant, 1200 Euros
Jun. 2012 – Erasmus Mobility Grant, 1500 Euros
Aug. 1994 - Jun. 1996 – Teaching Assistant, Saint Louis University, Department of Philosophy
Travel
Sep. 2017– Society for Intercultural Philosophy Travel Grant (Vienna)
Apr. 2014 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Dubrovnik)
Dec. 2013 – Akademie für Politische Bildung Travel Grant (Tutzing)
Oct. 2013 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Mersin)
Apr. 2013 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Dubrovnik)
Feb. 2012 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Los Angeles)
Nov. 2009 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Malta)
Nov. 2008 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Belfast)
Oct. 2007 – Department of Philosophy Travel Grant, Fatih University (Los Angeles)
Jul. 2007 – COB Scholar‟s Grant (Oxford, Ankara)
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Awards and Honors
Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts Summer Research Program, 2016
Publication Award – BYPT $250, 2014
Publication Award – BYPT $300, 2012
Faculty Fellow, Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), 2009 – 2011
Publication Award – BYPT $1100, 2010
Publication Award – BYPT $700, 2009
Publication Award – BYPT $550, 2008
Travelling Scholar Award, St. Louis Community College, 2007-2008
Courses Taught
MA Courses:
Hegel‟s Philosophy of Right
Kant‟s Moral and Political Philosophy
The Politics of Plato and Aristotle
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Philosophy (100-level)
World Religions (100-level)
American Pragmatist Aesthetics (200-level)
Ethics (100 & 200-level)
History of Greek Philosophy (200-level)
Introduction to Aesthetics (200-level)
Philosophy through Film (200-level)
World Religions (200-level)
Cosmopolitanism in Cicero‟s De Officiis (300-level)
History of Modern Philosophy: Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century (300-level)
Medical Ethics (100 & 300-level)
Applied Ethics (300-level)
The Political Theory of Plato‟s Republic (300-level)
Research Methodologies (300-level)
Philosophy of Art (400-level)
Contemporary Philosophy from an Islamic Perspective: Examples from Ethics, Epistemology,
Linguistics and Esthetics (Erasmus faculty exchange: University of Mainz, Germany)
Language, Politics and Religion in Modern Turkey (Erasmus faculty exchange: University of
Mainz, Germany)
Information Technology Courses:
Lead instructor for a suite of Oracle training courses, Braun Technology Group, 1996-2000
Instructor for Oracle training courses, Oracle Corporation, 1987-1989
Online Educational Tools:
Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, Turnitin
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Professional Organizations
The American Philosophical Association
The American Society for Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics
Professional Service
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Article Reviewer, British Journal of Aesthetics, reviewed article on the aesthetics of Habermas,
2015.
Erasmus Coordinator, Fatih University Department of Philosophy, 2013-2015.
Article Reviewer, Estetika, reviewed article on aesthetic communication in the public sphere,
XLVIII, No. 1, 2011.
Session Chair, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, February 2010.
Organized and facilitated Robert Pape‟s (U. Chicago-CPOST) seminar discussion “Dying to
Win” at Fatih University, May 2009.
Associate editor, The International Journal of the Humanities 6, 10 2009.
Article Reviewer, The International Journal of the Humanities, reviewed article on film and
culture, August 2008.
Article Reviewer, The International Journal of the Humanities, reviewed article on aesthetics in
education, July 2008.
Session Chair, Critical Issues Conference on Visual Literacy, July 2007.
References
Professor Manuel Knoll, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Şehir University, Istanbul; Hochschule für
Politik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Professor Andreas Hetzel, Ph.D., Institut für Philosophie, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Professor Marc Rölli, Ph.D., Philosophy, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig Academy of
Fine Arts
Professor William Charron, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Professor Theodore Vitali, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Associate Professor Jerold J. Abrams, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Creighton University
Assistant Professor David Butorac, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Fatih University, Istanbul
Associate Professor Jonathan Bowman, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, St. Charles Community
College
Professor Nigel Westbrook, Ph.D., School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of
Western Australia
Susan Cahan, Ph.D., Associate Dean for the Arts, Yale University
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