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Dr. Leon Niemoczynski is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania . His research focuses mainly on the philosophy of nature, especially within the Continental philosophical tradition - although he also maintains interests in a diverse range of topics including philosophical ecology, logic and metaphysics, German idealism, environmental and ecological aesthetics, animal ethics, and philosophies of art & beauty. Philosophers most relevant to his current research include Plato, Hegel, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty.

Niemoczynski is the author ofSpeculative Naturalism: An Ecological Metaphysics (forthcoming 2018);  Speculative Realism: An Epitome  as co-editor, A Philosophy of Sacred Nature: Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism (Lexington Books, 2014) and Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature (Lexington Books, 2011).