Jerold J . Abrams, PhD

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Articles

• Blackwell Publishing
  'Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness.' in The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy. Ed. Jason Eberl and Kevin Decker. 2016
• SUNY Press
  “Hitchcock and the Philosophical End of Film.” In Hitchcock as Moralist. Ed. Steven Sanders and Barton Palmer. New York 2015
• Rodopi Press
  27. “Pragmatist Aesthetics and Cinematic Experience: Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman.” Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics. Ed. Wojciech Malecki and Leszek Koczanowicz. New York: 2014
• Rodopi Press
  26. “Shusterman and the Paradoxes of Superhuman Self-Styling.” In Shusterman’s Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics. New York: Rodopi, forthcoming Ed. Wojciech Malecki and Dorota Koczanowicz. New York: 2012
• University Press of Kentucky
  “Transcendence and Sublimity in Spike Lee’s Signature Shot.” In The Philosophy of Spike Lee. Ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: 2011
• “Toward a Transcendental Pragmatic Reconciliation of Analytic and Continental Philosophy.” Chapter in Ideas in Action. Series Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 2010
• Quintessence
  “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die. Ed. Steven Schneider. New York: Penguin, 2009
• University Press of Kentucky
  “A Homespun Murder Story: Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo.” In The Philosophy of The Coen Brothers, ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: 2008
• Blackwell Publishing
  “The Children of Humanity: How to Avoid the Next Cylon War.” In Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy. Ed. Jason Eberl. New York: 2008
• Blackwell Publishing
  “‘Abductive Reasoning in Sherlock Holmes and House, M.D.” In House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies, ed. Henry Jacoby. New York: 2008
• University Press of Kentucky
  “The Cinema of Madness: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Films of Martin Scorsese.” In The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: 2007
• University Press of Kentucky
  “Dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis.” In The Philosophy of Sci-Fi Cinema. Ed. Steven Sanders. Lexington: 2007
• University Press of Kentucky
  With Elizabeth F. Cooke, “Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files.” In The Philosophy of TV Noir, ed. Aeon Skoble and Stephen Sanders. Lexington: 2007
• University Press of Kentucky
  “Space, Time, and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema.” In The Philosophy of Neo-Noir Film, ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: 2006
• University Press of Kentucky
  “Sherlock Holmes and the Hard-Boiled Detective Model in Film Noir.” In The Philosophy of Film Noir, ed. Mark T. Conard. Foreward by Robert Porfirio. Lexington: 2005
• Star Wars and Philosophy
  “A Technological Galaxy: Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology in Star Wars,” ined. Jason Eberl and Kevin Decker. Chicago: Open Court Press 2005
• Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society
  'Peirce, Kant, and Apel on Transcendental Semiotics: The Unity of Apperception and the Deduction of the Categories of Signs.”
  15:5 2004
• The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy
  “Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman.” , p. 233-266 2004
• Human Studies
  Pragmatism, artificial intelligence, and posthuman bioethics: Shusterman, Rorty, Foucault
  27, p. 241-258 2004
• Woody Allen and Philosophy
  “Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen.” ed. Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2004. 2004
• Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society
  “Solution to the Problem of Induction: Peirce, Apel, and Goodman on the Grue Paradox.”
  38:4, p. 543-558 2002
• Philosophy Today
  “Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning and Cosmopolitanism: Rorty and Foucault on the Art of Living.” , p. 185-192 2002
• Metaphor and Symbol
  “Philosophy After the Mirror of Nature: Rorty, Dewey, and Peirce on Pragmatism and Metaphor.”
  17:3, p. 227-42 2002
• The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy
  “Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book About Everything and Nothing.” Ed. William Irwin. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2000 2001

Editing and Reviews

• University Press of Kentucky
  The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick 2007

Awards

• The 2004 Annual Order of Omega Teaching Award
  The Greek Community of Creighton University