Jonathan Weidenbaum

Education

• BA, State University of New York, Albany
• PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo

Professional and Teaching Experience

• Faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Liberal Arts, Berkeley College, January 2005 - present
• Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Philosophy and Critical Thinking, LaGuardia Community College, September 2012 – 2015
• Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Philosophy and Religions, Hofstra University, September – December 2004
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Nassau Community College, September 2002 – August 2004
• Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Philosophy and Religions, Hofstra University, September 2000 – May 2002
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, University of Buffalo, April - August 2000

Presentations, Publications, Research

• “The Holy Versus the Sacred: Offering a Little Trouble for a Multiple Religious Belonging.” In Open Theology (De Gruyter). Vol. 3, Issue 1, February 2017, pages 134-143.
• Incarnating the Unhappy Consciousness: Hegel, Dewey, and the Relevance of Film for Healing the Spiritual Self,” In Glimpse; Phenomenology and Media. Vol. 18, 2017, pages 95-102.
• “A ‘No’ at the Core of Life: Doing Transreligious Theology with William James.” In Open Theology (De Gruyter). Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2016, pages 229-235.
• “Achieving Purpose in an Open Cosmos: The Continuing Relevance of William James for Relational and Interpersonal Theory,” in Making our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism in Psychoanalysis (Information Age Publishing, 2015)
• “Alterity, Transcendence and the One: Levinas and the Perennial Philosophy,” Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2013
• “William James’s Argument for a Finite Theism,” in Models of God and Alternative Other Ultimate Realities (Springer Publishing, 2013)

Awards and Recognitions

• Excellence in Teaching Award, Berkeley College, 2018
• Faculty of the Year Award, Berkeley College, 2007

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Philosophical Association
• Other Skills and Interests
• Avid traveler who spent entire 2011 sabbatical in China; his third trip to India was in 2013. These experiences regularly enter into his teaching and writing – as does the heavily international nature of the student body.