NEWS:
As an undergraduate, I am still very much "mid-voyage". I mean that genuinely...
... that said, I have found something like a direction. What follows is my attempt to sketch that out, where I am and what I find worth thinking about a lot of sleepless nights.
These are the areas I have spent real time with: through seminars, talks, and written work. I know my way around the debates, even if I'm still finding my footing in some of them.
Ontology & Epistemology
Metaphysical grounding (Schaffer, Audi, Rosen, Raven)
Epistemic bubbles/ chambers/ bunkers
Substantive Theories of Truth (Sher, Williamson, Lynch)
Analytic Philosophy of Religion
Classical & contemporary arguments for and against theism (Swineburn, Plantinga, Alston, L. Mackie)
Compossibility of divine attributes (Tapp, Zagzebski, Martin)
Interstellar Ethics & SETI/METI
Moral obligations under epistemic uncertainty (Haramia, C. Smith, T. Wright)
Intergenerational & Representational ethics (Haramia, DeMarines, Traphagan)
Moral status & rights of extraterrestrial intelligence (Haramia, Walkowicz, Vakoch, Shostak)
These are the topics that caught my attention somewhere along the way. I find them genuinely interesting, not enough to claim I know them well.
E. Levinas
Analytic approaches to his ethics, immanence/transcendece, his understanding of God and . Particularly the encounter with the Other and and what that has to do with God.
Spinoza
Substance monism, immanence/transcendece and Spinoza's concept of God, with an eye toward analytical approaches. And his reception in later thought, particularly in Deleuze.
Mysticism/Esotericism
Gnosticism and its Valentinian tradition, the mystical theology of Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, and the broader currents of Western esoteric thought