Rate My Professor Katharine Loevy

Loevy has an extensive publication record in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Notable works include “Literary Resistance to the Philosophy of Slavery in Medieval Islam: The Ikhwan as-Safa’ and al-Farabi,” published in Philosophy and Literature (2020); “The Ikhwan al-Safa’’s Animal Accusers: An Islamic Debate on Animal Slavery,” in Environmental Philosophy (2019); “Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal Within,” in Face-to-Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question (2019); “The Poetics of the Body in Islamic Mysticism,” in Philosophy East and West (2018); “The Fear of the Dog: Levinas’s Animal Images,” in Philosophy Today (2017); “Al-Farabi’s Images,” in Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (2016); “Animal Compassion: What the Jātakas Teach Levinas About Giving ‘The Bread from One’s Own Mouth,’” in Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics (2014); “Levinas and the Binding of Isaac,” in Epoché (2012); and “Confronting Natural Death in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” in PhaenEx (2010). These publications demonstrate her impact on discussions in animal ethics, medieval Islamic philosophy, and phenomenological interpretations of ethical encounters. Loevy maintains an office in Drake House 107 on the Forest Grove campus.