Edwin Gantt

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Edwin Gantt Associate Professor Department of Psychology Brigham Young University 1086 SWKT Provo, Utah 84602 (801)422-9785 ed_gantt@byu.edu

Education

• BS, Brigham Young University 1992
• MA, Duquesne University 1994
• PhD, Duquesne University 1998

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor at Brigham Young University (2004-present)
• Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University (1998-2004
• Adjunct Lecturer Duquesne University (1997-98)
• Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellow (1996-97)
• Psychology Trainee in the Psychology Clinic (1995-96)
• Psychology Trainee in the Counseling and Testing Center (1994-95)

Professional Activities

• American Psychological Association (1991-present)
• Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (1993-present)
• Membership Committee Chair, Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (2000-2004)
• Book Review Editor, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (1999-2002)
• Editorial Board Member, Levinas Studies (Annual Series), Duquesne University Press (2003-present)
• American Psychological Society (2004-present)
• International Society for Theoretical Psychology (2003-present)

Publications

• Gantt, E. E. , & Yanchar, S. C. (in press). Irreducible ethics: A defense of strenuousness and responsibility. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
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• Collingridge, D., & Gantt, E. E. (in press). The quality of qualitative research. American Journal of Medical Quality .

• Gantt, E. E. , & Reynolds, E. R. (in press). Meaning, Morality, and Sexual Attraction: Questioning the Reductive and Deterministic Assumptions of Evolutionary Biologism and Social Constructionism. In Wardle, L. D. (Ed.), Society, Family, Children and the Question of Same-Sex Marriage . Oxford , UK : Oxford University Press.

• Gantt, E. E. , Lindstrom, J. P., & Williams, R. N. (2007). The generality of theory and the specificity of social behavior: Contrasting experimental and hermeneutic social science. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality .

• Gantt, E. E. (2006). Empathy. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Gantt, E. E. (2005). Hedonism, suffering, and redemption: The challenge of a Christian psychotherapy. In L. Fischer and A. Jackson (Eds.), Turning Freud upside down. Provo, UT: BYU Studies.

• Gantt, E. E. (2005). Hedonism, suffering and redemption: The challenge of a Christian psychotherapy. Reprinted in A. Jackson & L. Fischer (Eds.), Turning Freud upside down: Gospel perspectives on psychotherapy’s fundamental problems (pp. 52-79). Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press.

• Gantt, E. E. (2005). Social psychology: Exploring Alternative Conceptual Foundations. In B. D. Slife, J. S. Reber, & F. C. Richardson (Eds.), Developing Critical Thinking in Psychology (pp. 81-96). Washington, DC: APA Books.

• Yanchar, S. C., Gantt, E. E. , & Clay, S. L. (2005). On the nature of a critical methodology. Theory and Psychology , 15(1), 27-50.