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Putt, B. Keith

Keith Putt has concentrated both his teaching and research in certain Continental philosophies of language and interpretation theory, specifically those relating to phenomenological hermeneutics and deconstruction. That concentration has been even more narrowly focused on how those traditions impact post-metaphysical philosophies of religion and non-classical theistic philosophical theologies.His pedagogical intent, deeply rooted in these contrarian conventions, has been to mimic the Socratic irony of the wisdom of humility and the complementary dynamic of the philosopher as intellectual “salmon”—the cautious educator determined to swim against the stream of the status quo. The “salmon” scholar believes that the only therapeutic prescription against the sepsis of authoritarianism, superstition, and ignorance is the skepsis of questioning, critique, and incredulity.