Daniel Vaillancourt
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Professor Philosophy Department Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60626 Contact Information: Office: Crown Center, 3rd floor Lake Shore Campus Phone: 773.508.3344 Fax: 773.508.2292 E-mail: dvailla@luc.edu Personal Web Page: http://kathyanddan.org |
Dan Vaillancourt is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University. He earned his B.A. in French Literature and Philosophy from St. Francis College, Biddeford, Maine, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from DePaul University, Chicago, in 1976. His dissertation was entitled Stanislas Breton: The Principle of Human Transcendence; Man Making the World. He received a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Paris from 1971-72.
Dr. Vaillancourt came to the philosophy department in 1990 with the merger of Loyola University and Mundelein College. He had taught at Mundelein College for eighteen years, where he had also served as Chairperson of Humanities for five years and Dean of the Masters in Liberal Studies Program for three years.
Dr. Vaillancourt's primary areas of research are aesthetics, the philosophy of beauty, and philosophy of human nature. He is also interested in the philosophy of literature and the philosophy of suffering.
Dr. Vaillancourt has written (with Joan Francis Crowley) Lenin to Gorbachev: Three Generations of Soviet Communists, (Harlan-Davidson, 1989; revised edition 1994). He has also written numerous articles in philosophy and literature, Marxism and Communism, and social and economic philosophy, and has translated several works in social philosophy from French to English. Dr. Vaillancourt’s recent publications and research focus on his passion and expertise, aesthetics and the philosophy of beauty. He recently published a 12,000-word article, “Beauty and Healing,” in the International Journal of the Humanities, and he is currently working on two books: Beauty: The Sources (a collection of sources on beauty from around the world), and Do Beauty Experiences Boost the Immune System? (a monograph that explores the intersection of aesthetics, neuroscience, and immunology by investigating the impact of beauty, via the brain, on the immune system). He completed in 2006 four chapters of The Genius Next Door Beauty Series, which celebrates and analyzes (philosophically) the beauty created by people like you and me, and he completed in 2007 Aania (a philosophical novel), which chronicles the life of a young orphan and Kosovo survivor, who uses beauty to change the world.
To learn more about Dr. Vaillancourt, go to his personal website: http://kathyanddan.org
