Biography
Daniel Alvarez, MA, MTS, undergraduate degree was in History, from Stetson University in 1976. Daniel pursued graduate work at Harvard University, earning two masters' degrees with special emphasis on theology and philosophy. In 1999, Daniel began teaching at FIU in the Department of Religious Studies.
Since 2005, Daniel has been a fellow of the Honors College, teaching IDH 3034 and IDH 3035. In addition to teaching World Religions and Introduction to Religion, for the last twelve years Daniel has been teaching a series of advanced seminars on the most important thinkers of the Western philosophical traditions, such as Hume, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida—both their intrinsic philosophical value, and the implication of their work for the analysis of religion.
In 2013, Daniel published “A Critique of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Scientific Theology (in Theology and Science); and in 2014, “A Brief History of Western Rationality” appeared as chapter 2 in Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities, a book edited by his colleague Whitney Bauman. The work of W. V. Quine has exercised an enormous influence on his thinking, as evidenced in the publications mentioned above.