Evgenia Cherkasova, Assistant Professor

Evgenia Cherkasova

Evgenia V. Cherkasova, PhD

Philosophy Department
1 Bowdoin Square, 
6th Floor, Room 627

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:

phone: (617) 557-1517
fax: (617) 973-5323
echerkas@suffolk.edu
Mailing address:
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114

 

Research Interests

  • Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature
  • Ethics
  • Modern Philosophy, Kant
  • Dostoevsky
  • Existentialism
  • Russian Philosophy and Literature

Education

  • PhD, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1999
    Dissertation: Deontology of the Heart: A study in Dostoevsky’s and Kant’s Unconditional Ethics
  • MS, History of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia, 1991
  • BS, Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia, 1991 

Employment

2005 to present: Suffolk University, Assistant Professor
1999-2005: Pennsylvania State University, Philosophy Department, Instructor
2003-2005: Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Research Associate

 

Selected Publications

Book

"Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics," (under contract, Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; anticipated publication date Fall 2008)      

Encyclopedia Articles

“Dostoevsky,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys, Routledge, London, 2004.
“Russian Thought in the Nineteenth Century,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys, Routledge, London, 2004.        

Selected Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books

  1. “Virtues of the Heart: Feodor Dostoevsky and the Ethic of Love,” in Virtues and Passions in Literature:
    Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfillment, collection of essays, Analecta Husserliana Series, Vol.96, Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (Ed.), Springer, forthcoming January 2008.       
  2. “On the Boundary of Intelligibility: Kant’s Conception of Radical Evil and the Limits of Ethical Discourse.” The Review of Metaphysics, 58 (March 2005): 571-584.      
  3. "Philosophy as Sideshadowing: The Philosophical, the Literary and the Fantastic,” in What Philosophy Is, collection of essays on the nature and state of contemporary philosophy, H. Carel and D. Gamez eds., London & New York: Continuum, 2004. 
  4. "Kant on Free Will and Arbitrariness. A View From Dostoevsky’s Underground,” Philosophy and Literature, 2004, 28 (2): 267-78.  
  5. “Dostoevsky’s ‘Deontology of the Heart’: A New Perspective on Unconditional Ethics,” Dostoevsky Journal, S. Vladiv-Glover and C. Schlacks, eds., 2000: 97-111.  
  6. “The Definition of The Group Of Transformations in De Morgan’s On the Foundations of Algebra,” (in Russian) Problems of History of Science and Technology, Moscow: Nauka, 1992, pp. 90-93.      

Selected Translations

  • John J. Stuhr, “Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Future of Philosophy: Farewell to an Idea,” Polis, 2005 [from English to Russian]
  • John J. Stuhr, “Democracy as a Way of Life, Democracy in the Face of Terrorism,” Polis 5: 12-24, 2003 and Polis 6: 39-49, 2003 [from English to Russian]
  • A.G. Barabashev, “In Support of Significant Modernization of Original Mathematical Texts (in Defense of Presentism),” Philosophia Mathematica (3) vol. 1 (1997), pp.21-41 [from Russian to English]
  • A. G. Barabashev, “Evolution of the Ways of Systematization of Mathematical Knowledge,” The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, collection of essays, Emily Grosholz & Herbert Breger, eds., Synthese Library, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000. [from Russian to English]   

Honors and Awards

  • Summer Stipend Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University, Summer 2006.
  • Philosophy Department Teaching Awards; PSU, Fall 1999 and Spring 2000.
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 1998-1999
  • NAFSA Association of International Educators Award; 1993-1994 and 1994-1995

Courses Taught at Suffolk University

Philosophy of Art; History of  Modern Philosophy; Philosophy in Literature (honors); Ethics; Philosophy of Freedom; Profiles in Philosophy: Kant; Existentialism; Citical Thinking and Argumentation; Seminar for Freshmen: Philosophy of Ar an Beauty.