Full-Time Faculty
Thomas J. Derdak, PhD
About
Thomas J. Derdak is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, where he has taught since 1979. He received his BA from Butler University in Indianapolis, and his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Toulmin, and Alan Donagan, and wrote a dissertation on epistemological issues in Freud, entitled Explanation and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis.
His areas of philosophical specialization are ethics and aesthetics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, moral philosophy, and philosophy of human nature. He has published articles on these and related topics.
Dr. Derdak is also the executive director of Global Alliance for Africa, a not-for-profit foundation concerned with the health care infrastructure of Africa. He travels regularly to Africa for this reason, and lectures to organizations in the United States on conditions there.
Degrees
University of Chicago
Research Interests
Philosophy of religion, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology
