Ardis B. Collins
 | Associate Professor Philosophy Department Loyola University Chicago 6525 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60626 Contact Information: Office: Crown Center, 3rd floor Lake Shore Campus Phone: 773.508.3477 Fax: 773.508.2292 E-mail: acollin@luc.edu |
Ardis B. Collins holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of Loyola University Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1968, after teaching for two years at St. Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana). In 1968, she joined the faculty of Loyola University Chicago, where she has since taught. She regularly teaches courses for beginning undergraduates, undergraduate majors, and graduate students. Upper division courses usually focus on modern philosophy, especially Hegel's Phenomenology, Hegelian social philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, and Hegel's critique of Kantian morality.
Dr. Collins has served in various administrative and representative posts at Loyola University including the following: Director of Undergraduate Majors; Director of Graduate Philosophy; Philosophy representative on the Academic Council of the College of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D. Council representative on the Graduate Studies Coordinating Board. She has served four terms on the Executive Council of the Hegel Society of America, twice as counselor, once as Vice-President and organizer of the 1992 Conference, currently as Treasurer.
As organizer of the Hegel Society's 1992 Conference, Dr. Collins served as editor of the collection in which the Conference papers were published, entitled Hegel on the Modern World (SUNY Press, 1995). In Medieval and Renaissance philosophy, she has published The Secular Is Sacred: Platonism and Thomism in Marsilio Ficino's PLATONIC THEOLOGY (Martinus Nijhoff, 1974). Her articles appear in various journals and collections, such as Journal of the History of Philosophy, Method and Speculation in Hegel's PHENOMENOLOGY (Humanities Press, 1982), Hegel and His Critics (SUNY Press, 1989), Cardozo Law Review, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. She is currently working on two Hegel projects: Hegel's critique of Kantian morality and its relation to certain Marxist interpretations of Hegel's social philosophy; Hegel on the relation between reason and the irrationality of nature. A paper developed from the first project was accepted for the program of the World Philosophy Congress, meeting in Boston in August of 1998.
Dr. Collins has served as an editorial consultant for the History of Philosophy Quarterly. In 1996, she took over as Editor-in-Chief of The Owl of Minerva, journal of The Hegel Society of America.
