Douglas Porpora
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Douglas Porpora is professor of sociology in the Department of Anthropology. He has published widely on social theory. Among his books are "The Concept of Social Structure" (Greenwood 1987), "How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America" (Temple 1992) and "Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life" (Oxford 2001).
Research Interest
Rhetoric, political communication, morality, religion, political economy and war
Publications
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Tyson Mitman, Alexander Nikolaev and Douglas Porpora (2012) “The Critical Moral Voice on U.S. Newspaper Opinion Pagesâ€Â Communication, Culture, and Critique 5 (3): 392-408.
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Douglas Porpora (2013) “How Many Thoughts Are There? Or Why We Likely Have No Tegmark Duplicates 1010^115 meters Away.†Philosophical Studies 163:133–149.
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Alexander Jenkins, Alexander Nikolaev, and Douglas Porpora (2012) “Moral Reasoning and the Online Debate about Iraqâ€Â Political Communication 29:1, 44-63.
