Roanoke College

Dr. Monica L. Vilhauer

Associate Professor
Department: Religion/Philosophy
Office: 317 Francis T. West Hall
Phone: 375-2458

vilhauer@roanoke.edu

Secretary for the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (2008-present)
Co-creator and co-coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies Concentration, Roanoke College (2008-2012)

Recent Presentations:

“Socrates, the ‘Love Doctor’: Philosophic Therapy in Ancient Greece” Presented at “Love: A Conference on the Theological Virtues,” Viterbo University, Spring 2013
“Socrates, the Love Doctor of Ancient Athens” Presented at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participants’ Conference, Italy, Summer 2012
“The Game of Understanding: Dialogue Play and Opening to the Other” Keynote Address at “Philosophy at Play” Conference, University of Gloucestershire, England, Spring 2011
“Broadening Gadamer’s Ethics of Play” Presented at NASPH (North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Fall 2010
“Beyond the Fusion of Horizons: Gadamer’s Notion of Understanding as Play" Presented at the Eastern APA (American Philosophical Association) main program, Philadelphia, PA, Winter 2008
“At Play With the Hermeneutic Other: Re-Focusing Gadamer’s Conception of Understanding” Presented at SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) main program, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall 2008
“Wittgensteinian Ethics?” Presented at the NAWS (North American Wittgenstein Society) annual meeting, Pacific APA, CA, Spring 2007

"Gadamer and the Game of Understanding: Dialogue Play and Opening to the Other" (in The Philosophy of Play, eds. Ryal, Russell, Maclean, Routledge, 2013)
"Beyond the Fusion of Horizons: Gadamer's Notion of Understanding as Play" (in Philosophy Today, 53:4, Winter 2009)
"Socratic Dialogue and the Ethical Conditions of Knowledge" (in Skepsis, Vol. XVI i-ii, 2005)