Undergraduate School
Yale University
Graduate School
University of Notre Dame (PhD, Philosophy)
Medical School
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Interests and Career Goals
Integrated medical-psychiatric care, neuropsychiatry, medical humanities, philosophy and medical ethics
Favorite Pastimes
Reading fiction and philosophy, taking long walks with my wife and our dog Marley, trying new donut shops
Strengths of the Program
Longstanding tradition of med-psych training, numerous resources in medical ethics and the medical humanities at Duke and in the Triangle, large and diverse patient population
Areas of Prior Research
Tuberculosis, History of Philosophy, Ethics
Publications/Abstracts
- Rauschenbach, Michael. “Theistic Moral Realism, Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, and a Catholic Philosophy of Nature.” In 2019 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 177-188. https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc2021430127
- Rauschenbach, Michael. “Spinoza’s EIp10 As a Solution to a Paradox about Rules: A New Argument from the Short Treatise.” Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2(1), p.12. http://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.91
- Clay, Graham and Rauschenbach, Michael. “Can the Berkeleyan Idealist Resist Spinozist Panpsychism?” History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 24 (2021), 296-325. https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-02301001
- Rauschenbach, Michael. “The Paradoxical Christology of Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘On Learned Ignorance’” (in Russian). In Verbum: An Almanac of the Center for the Study of the Culture of the Middle Ages (Vol. 17 (2015): 67-83). St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University Press.
Poster Presentations
- American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Saint Louis, MO (2021) Comments: Travis Dumsday’s “A Bonaventurean Approach to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness”
- 10th New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, New York, NY (virtual) (2020). “The Burden of Unity: Berkeley Between Hume and Spinoza” (with Graham Clay)
- Washington University; St. Louis, MO; Annual Research Poster Day (2019). Lead author, in partnership with several Ukrainian collaborators, of poster presentation: “Challenges and Triumphs of Counting Kids: Enhancing Detection of Pediatric Tuberculosis in Ukraine”
- American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (2019). “Theistic Moral Realism, Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, and a Catholic Philosophy of Nature”
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Berkeley Workshop, Milwaukee, WI (2018). “Why Wasn’t Berkeley a Panpsychist?” (with Graham Clay)
- International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry Conference, Athens, Greece (2014). “MacIntyrean Theology, Competing Traditions, and Divine Commands”
- Ohio State University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Columbus, OH (2011). “Helpful But Flawed: The Inefficacy of Kripke’s Rigid Designators in the Physicalism Debate”
- Indiana University; South Bend, IN; Biochemistry Senior Seminar Symposium (2017). Sole author of “New Life for the Alzheimer’s Infection Hypothesis?” and Joseph H. Ross Senior
- Seminar Award in Biochemistry winner