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 C. F. "Chip" Sills is an independent scholar living in southern Appalachia. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1969, a Master’s in Humanities from West Virginia College of Graduate Study in 1985, and a Doctorate in Liberal Arts from Emory University in 1988. At Emory he was honored with the Woodruff fellowship.
He was co-editor of Philosophy of Discourse: The Rhetorical Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought (Heinemann, 1992). He is a wide-ranging scholar who has published several articles on a variety of topics, ranging from interpretations of Hegel’s Logic to the history of astrological symbolism in Western thought. He brings to his work perspectives gained from non-academic pursuits as well, having taught martial arts for a number of years and having run his own excavating business. Recently he completed a two-year project of constructing from scratch a timber-frame home for his family in West Virginia. His sons were home-schooled.
Chip has held teaching positions at Georgia State University (Philosophy), Emory University (Liberal Studies), UNC-Greensboro (Religious Studies), Guilford College (Philosophy), US Naval Academy (Philosophy & Ethics) and the St. John’s College Graduate Institute (Great Books).
Over the past several years he has pursued his interest in philosophy of culture into a broad study of modernity and its critics. He is a frequent contributor to the sessions of the Eric Voegelin Society at the American Political Science Association.
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