Eric Luttrell
- Courses9
- Reviews16
- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: Corpus Christi
- Department: English
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Corpus Christi, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: March 2015 - November 2019
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I took Professor Luttrell for an online course for an English Lit credit. There was a different reading each week, and the language of the texts is beyond difficult to understand. He gives no leniency when it comes to turning in things late, plus his video lectures will put you to sleep. Expect to work on this class alone for ten to fifteen hours a week at least.
Biography
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi - English
Professional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Higher Education
Eric
Luttrell
Corpus Christi, Texas
University level teaching: rhetoric & composition, English literature, religious studies, anthropology
Specialties: Research in coalitional & evolutionary psychology; cognitive & classical approaches to rhetoric; English literature, primarily Old English; World literature, ancient & medieval; religious studies, primarily Christianity and pre-Christian European;
Experience
University of Oregon
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Courses taught: literature, literary theory, and advanced composition.
University of Oregon
Adjunct Instructor
Eric worked at University of Oregon as a Adjunct Instructor
University of Oregon
Graduate Teaching Fellow
English Literature, Composition, and Religious Studies
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Professional Assistant Professor
Eric worked at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as a Professional Assistant Professor
Chemeketa Community College
Adjunct Faculty
Eric worked at Chemeketa Community College as a Adjunct Faculty
Education
University of Oregon
PhD
English
University of Oregon
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Courses taught: literature, literary theory, and advanced composition.University of Oregon
Adjunct Instructor
University of Oregon
Graduate Teaching Fellow
English Literature, Composition, and Religious StudiesUniversity of Denver
MA
English
Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies
Icelandic
Publications
Neurophilosophy Challenges the Strategic Use of Moral Reasoning: A Review of Churchland's Braintrust
ASEBL Journal
A review of Patricia Churchland’s book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality, situated within the context of Churchland’s tumultuous history with the Presidential Council on Bioethics and ongoing discourse surrounding the NIH’s new “BRAIN Initiative.”
Neurophilosophy Challenges the Strategic Use of Moral Reasoning: A Review of Churchland's Braintrust
ASEBL Journal
A review of Patricia Churchland’s book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality, situated within the context of Churchland’s tumultuous history with the Presidential Council on Bioethics and ongoing discourse surrounding the NIH’s new “BRAIN Initiative.”
Modest Heroism: Beowulf and Competitive Altruism
The Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior in Literature (ASEBL)
Competitive altruism, the conspicuous display of personally-costly pro-social behavior, has been shown to be a fitness-enhancing behavior despite the cost to the individual altruist. It raises the individual's status and access to resources. Exercising this strategy unconsciously strengthens its social utility even further. The eponymous hero of the Old English poem Beowulf exemplifies this orientation. Past scholarship has used this display of virtue to argue for the poem's dependence on Christian religiosity. This article argues that these virtues are evolved and independent of any religious or other cultural context. As such, they cannot be used to argue that the poem could only have originated after the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.
Neurophilosophy Challenges the Strategic Use of Moral Reasoning: A Review of Churchland's Braintrust
ASEBL Journal
A review of Patricia Churchland’s book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality, situated within the context of Churchland’s tumultuous history with the Presidential Council on Bioethics and ongoing discourse surrounding the NIH’s new “BRAIN Initiative.”
Modest Heroism: Beowulf and Competitive Altruism
The Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior in Literature (ASEBL)
Competitive altruism, the conspicuous display of personally-costly pro-social behavior, has been shown to be a fitness-enhancing behavior despite the cost to the individual altruist. It raises the individual's status and access to resources. Exercising this strategy unconsciously strengthens its social utility even further. The eponymous hero of the Old English poem Beowulf exemplifies this orientation. Past scholarship has used this display of virtue to argue for the poem's dependence on Christian religiosity. This article argues that these virtues are evolved and independent of any religious or other cultural context. As such, they cannot be used to argue that the poem could only have originated after the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.
Theory of Mind in Beowulf: The Perils of Cognitive Historicism
The Evolutionary Review
The recent trend in literary criticism known as cognitive historicism presumes that ancient works of literature cannot exhibit the same level of metarepresentation, or theory-of-mind, as modern novels. The Old English poem of Beowulf has been singled out as an example of inferior social cognition. The present article provides a close reading of the poem and demonstrates a level of recursive metarepresentation more than twice that attributed to it by cognitive historicists.
