Sarah Whylly | Profiles

Fall 2025

Section 1482 of PHIL5
Critical Thinking/Writing -- : Aug 22 - Dec 12 2025

Section 1490 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 18 - Dec 12 2025
This section has no scheduled meetings.

Section 2166 of PHIL11
Introduction to Asian Philosophy -- : Aug 19 - Dec 11 2025

Section 2225 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 18 - Dec 12 2025
This section has no scheduled meetings.

Spring 2025

Section 4477 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings.

Section 5503 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings.

Section 5504 of PHIL5
Critical Thinking/Writing -- : Jan 17 - May 16 2025

Section 5505 of PHIL5
Critical Thinking/Writing -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.

Section 6308 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Feb 10 - May 16 2025
This is a late start section that has no regularly scheduled meetings.

PhD, ABD - Florida State University, Department of the Study of Religion - Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy specialization track
MA - Florida State University, Department of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science Program
BA - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy Department

Academic Experience

8/2013 -- Present -- Professor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Department of Philosophy, Humanities, and Religion

8/2012 -- 12/2015 - Professor, Tiffin University, Master of Humanities Online

7/2011 -- 8/2012 - Senior Grant Coordination Assistant to Director and Team Leads -- AANAPISI/TRIO grants, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA

6/2005 -- 8/2011 - History and Philosophy of Science Program (HPS) Coordinator, History and Philosophy of Science Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

1/2009 -- 5/2011 - Instructor, Religion Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

8/2007 -- 8/2009 - Instructor, Interdisciplinary Humanities Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

6/2009 -- 8/2009 -- Instructor, Philosophy and Humanities Department, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL

8/2008 -- 12/2008 - Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

6/2008 -- 8/2008 -- Instructor, Philosophy and Humanities Department, Department, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL

Florida State University, 2004 - 2011, MA in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science & PhD, ABD in Religion, Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy track
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2001 - 2004: BA in Philosophy, minor in History and Women's Studies
Keystone College: 2000-2001 Computer Science

Professional Areas of Interest

19th - 20th century Buddhism in America
Japanese Buddhism
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Indian Religious traditions
Sanskrit literature

Professional Involvement and Community Service

College Service

AFA Executive Council 2024 - 2026
- SGA Liason
Academic Senate 2017-2022
- District Online Committee
- Faculty Equivalency Committee
AFA Publications Coordinator 2017-2018

Presentations and Publications

Publications:

"Atheism in Ancient Japan", Cambridge Companion on Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, Fall 2021

"Review: Buddhism and Biology" by David Barash, Quarterly Review of Biology, Spring 2015

"Atheism in Modern Japan", Oxford Handbook on Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, 2014

"Idealism"&"Logic" entries, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Edited by K.T.S. Sarao and Arvind Sharma, 2012

"Conceptual Space for Julia Kristeva: Mary Douglas on Women, Bodies, and Anxiety", Research and Criticism, Fall 2010

"Nietzsche and Feminism", Janua Sophia, Volume VI, Spring 2004

Presentations:

"Atheism in Modern Japan", 2013 Oxford Handbook on Atheism Workshop, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

"Changing Faces of Tannisho", 2012 Graduate Theological Union Graduate Student Conference March 16th 2012, Berkeley, CA

Guest lecturer, World Religions Course, Tallahassee Community College (Fall 2010) Topic: "Tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism"

"What's Faith Got to Do With it?: An Examination of the Concept of Faith in Japanese Pure Land", 2010 Religion Symposium on February 18-21st 2010, Tallahassee FL

"Pragmatic Approaches to Developing Social Ethics in Japanese Zen Buddhism", 2009 HPS Brown Bag Lunch Presentation with roundtable discussion on September 15th 2009, Tallahassee, FL

"A Pragmatic Look at Word and Image", presented at the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy 4th Annual Topics of Diversity Conference on February 22nd -- 23rd 2008, Tallahassee, FL

"The Science of Hysteria and Jean Martin Charcot", presented at the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Conference on July 25th - 29th 2007, Exeter, England

"Nietzsche and Feminism", presented at the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy 2nd Annual Topics of Diversity Conference on March 31 & April 1st, 2006, Tallahassee, FL