Michael Deckard
- Ph.D., M.A., Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
- B.A., Wheaton College
Michael Deckard is a professor of philosophy and program coordinator for philosophy at 樱花动漫. He has taught courses in historical and environmental aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and phenomenology, applied ethics (particularly medical ethics and the ethics of war and peace) and Native American philosophy. He has three co-edited books,鈥疨hilosophy Begins in Wonder (2010),鈥疶he Science of Sensibility (2012) and Evil and the Symbolic (2022).
In 2024, he was awarded an Appalachian College Association grant for research on incorporating Indigenous narratives into the history of philosophy and science. In 2015, he was awarded a Fulbright to work on the relationship between art and science in the early modern period. In 2012, Deckard received the Lenoir-Rhyne Faculty Scholar Award, which is presented to the faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to his/her discipline during the academic year.