Rico Vitz

Rico Vitz
Education
EducationUniversity of California, Riverside (PhD), University of Utah (MS), California State University, Dominguez Hills (BA)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsAzusa Pacific University
Main interestsearly modern philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, comparative philosophy
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/ricovitz/

Rico Vitz is an American philosopher and the director of the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University. His work focuses on early modern philosophy, ethics, and the intersection of philosophy and religion, with particular attention to David Hume, René Descartes, and comparative philosophical traditions.[1][2]

Books

  • Vitz, Rico. Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes’s Epistemology. Springer, 2015.[3][4]
  • (ed.) Vitz, Rico, ed. Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith. St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2012.[5]
  • (co-ed.) Reed, Philip A. & Vitz, Rico, eds. Hume’s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology. Routledge, 2018.[6]
  • (ed.) Vitz, Rico, ed. The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social. Oxford University Press, 2014.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Rico Vitz". Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile.
  2. ^ "Faculty Friday: Rico Vitz — When Plans Change for the Better - Articles". Azusa Pacific University.
  3. ^ "Review of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 3 August 2015.
  4. ^ Gaudemard, Lynda (2 January 2017). "Reforming the art of living: nature, virtue, and religion in Descartes's epistemology". British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 25 (1): 205–209. doi:10.1080/09608788.2016.1149447. ISSN 0960-8788.
  5. ^ "Review of Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 26 February 2013.
  6. ^ "Review of Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 28 January 2019.
  7. ^ Furman, Katherine E. (1 November 2015). "Jonathan Matheson, Rico Vitz (eds): The Ethics of Belief". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 18 (5): 1105–1106. doi:10.1007/s10677-015-9583-7. ISSN 1572-8447.