Dr. Breidenbach is featured in
The Pursuit of Wisdom, a series of short courses presented by the faculty of Ave Maria University.A.B., Princeton University, The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Musical Performance (Violin); M.A., Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Philosophy, University of St Andrews
Dr. Janice Tzuling Chik is Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida. She is also Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University, Member of the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Senior Affiliate of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously a Barry Foundation Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (2019-20), and a Visiting Research Scholar (2017 and 2019) at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She holds degrees in philosophy, public policy, and music performance from Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research spans the philosophy of action, metaphysics, and human rights, and has been published by Routledge, The University of Cambridge Press, The Review of Metaphysics, and New Blackfriars. She has delivered academic papers at Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania, the Fashion Institute of Technology, KU Leuven, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, and St Andrews.
She earned her Bachelor's at Princeton University, with degrees in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (now the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs) and in Musical Performance (specializing in violin performance). She earned an MA in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Darrell K. Royal Fellow in Ethics and American Society, and a PhD Fellow in the Law and Philosophy Program. She earned her doctorate in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she was the Scottish Overseas Research Award Scholar.
This chapter argues that the paradigm for conceptualizing human action should essentially refer to animal powers. It develops an animalist account of agency in the Aristotelian tradition, on which animal corporeality fundamentally informs the paradigm concept of action.
This essay argues that religion is a distinctive form of human activity, and offers a philosophical account of what religion fundamentally is (and what it is not), within the context of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Are we animal agents? This chapter argues for the following claims: The concept of action in general is closely linked with that of animacy, i.e., the concept of being an animal. Thus causal exceptionalism for human agency, i.e., the claim that only human beings are agents, is false.
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