Since joining UGA in 1982, I have been pursuing in both the 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 achieve 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, have analogously tackled the principal issues of aesthetic theory, whereas my latest 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 forthcoming 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, and I am currently at work on a long term project on the different spheres of mind: the pre-conscious psyche, consciousness, and intelligence, as well as on a book tentatively entitled, Rethinking Capital.