Since joining UGA in 1982, I have been pursuing in both classroom and print the project of freeing philosophy of foundations, of surmounting all appeals to the given and to transcendental conditions of knowing, so as to engage the presuppositionless autonomy required for justification in theory and practice.

My recent book, The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government, culminates my efforts to reconstruct ethics as a foundation-free theory of the reality of self-determination, following up on Reason and Justice, The Just Family, The Just Economy and Law in Civil Society. My two books, Systematic Aesthetics and Stylistics, analogously tackled the principal issues of aesthetic theory, whereas my penultimate book, From Concept to Objectivity, examines how thinking can legitimate itself and secure the conceptual determination of objectivity without question-begging. In all these investigations, I have drawn inspiration from Hegel, whose pioneering efforts to overcome foundations in philosophy have been largely ignored by subsequent philosophers in both the analytic and continental traditions.

My latest book, Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (Ashgate 2007) investigates the relation between modernity and religion, and how it bears upon the war on terrorism. I have just completed a book manuscript entitled, Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology, and I am currently at work on a larger systematic investigation of mind, tentatively entitled, The Living Mind: Psyche, Consciousness, and Intelligence. In the meantime, I have been intermittently returning to an earlier project left incomplete, which I hope to bring to fruition as a book entitled, Rethinking Capital.