Kowalski, Dean

Dean A. Kowalski received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.  Specializing in the philosophy of religion, he has published research articles in such journals as Religious Studies and Philosophy and Theology. He is the author of Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 2004) and Moral Theory at the Movies: An Introduction to Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).  He as edited (and contributed to) two philosophy and pop culture books for the University Press of Kentucky, The Philosophy of The X-Files (2007, paperback 2009) and Steven Spielberg and Philosophy (2008). His third volume, again with University Press of Kentucky, The Philosophy of Joss Whedon, is to be published in 2011.   He is married (Patricia) and has two children, Nicholas and Cassie.