Fred Frohock - Beyond: On Life After Death - Gables

Start: Oct 3 2010 6:00 pm

Fred M. Frohock is the author of eleven books and numerous articles in scholarly journals. His latest book, Beyond: On Life After Death (University Press of Kansas, 2010), critically scans the evidence for life after death, a study that supports a variation on the thesis that evidence underdetermines theory, or, roughly put, that rival theories can be consistent with the same data set and rank ordered only by relying on background considerations.

Professor Frohock's work often combines theory and field work. Special Care (1986) is an ethnographic account of decision-making in an intensive care neonatal nursery, while Healing Powers (1992) studies alternative medicine and spiritual healing. Both were published by the U. of Chicago Press, as was Lives of the Psychics (2000), an examination of anomalous and mystical experiences. Public Reason: Mediated Authority in the Liberal State (Cornell U. Press, 1999) delineates public reasoning on post-Wittgenstein theories of language. Bounded Divinities: Sacred Discourses in Pluralist Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) is a treatment of religion and politics that uses Santería as a case study in a theoretical examination of the two practices.

Prof. Frohock earned his Ph.D. in Political Science and Philosophy at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twice a Social Science Research Council Fellow, he is currently professor and chair of political science at the University of Miami, with academic concentrations in political philosophy, law, and bioethics.