Kevin W. Sweeney

Education

1968 American University, B.A.
1977 University of Wisconsin at Madison, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Ethics
History of Philosophy
Logic

Aesthetics
Business Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Existentialism

Career Specialties

While teaching a variety of philosophy courses, Dr. Sweeney specializes in aesthetics.

Professional and Community Activities:

Dr. Sweeney has written extensively on literature and the cinema, focusing on the silent era, and is preparing a book on Buster Keaton. He also has written on the adaptation of Hemingway fiction into film, the films of Jonathan Demme and the aesthetics of post-modernism. He is a guest editor for the journal Film and Philosophy.