Faculty Members 2006-2007
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David Cunning Associate Professor. His research and teaching interests include
early modern philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. He has published on the methods of rationalism and on the
views and concerns of particular rationalists, with a focus on Descartes. He is also interested in issues surrounding agency.
James Duerlinger
Professor. He is the author of Indian Buddhist Theories of Persons: Vasubandhu's "Refutation of the Theory
of a Self" (2003) and Plato's Sophist: A Translation with a Detailed Account of its Theses and Arguments (2004).
He has published articles on topics in ancient Greek philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Buddhist
philosophy, which are also his current teaching and research interests.
Evan Fales
Associate Professor. He has written on such topics as essences, identity, and philosophy of religion, and
is author of Causation and Universals (1990) and A Defense of the Given (1996). His teaching and research
interests also include modal logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Carrie Figdor Assistant Professor. Her research and teaching interests are in philosophy of mind and cognitive science and metaphysics,with emphasis on issues in the intersection between these areas. Her work addresses such topics as mind-body metaphysics, competing models of cognition, externalism and the nature of structure. She is also interested in philosophy of journalism.
Richard Fumerton F. Wendell Miller Professor and Chair. He is the author of Metaphysical and Epistemological Problems of Perception (1985),
Reason and Morality: A Defense of the Egocentric Perspective (1990), and Metaepistemology and Skepticism (1995), and
Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002). His present teaching and research interests include epistemology,
metaphysics, and value theory.
Diane Jeske Associate Professor. Her published work in ethics addresses topics such as the grounds
of special obligations to intimates, the nature of friendship, and utilitarianism versus deontology. Her current teaching and research interests also include political philosophy, philosophy of law, personal identity, and feminist ethics.
Gregory Landini
Professor. He is the author of Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory (1998) and has published articles in the
philosophy of logic and metaphysics. His teaching and research interests include modal logic, the foundations of
mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.
David G. Stern Professor. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Mind and Language
(1995) and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (2004) and an editor of The Cambridge
Companion to Wittgenstein (1996) and Wittgenstein Reads Weininger: A Reassessment (2004). His research and teaching
interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy and computing, and the
history of analytic philosophy.
Visiting Faculty
Chienkuo (Michael) Mi , Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Soochow University, Taiwan.
Kenneth Williford, Visiting Assistant Kenneth
Williford is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy
at St. Cloud State University. His research and
teaching interests include the philosophy of mind,
phenomenology, logic, and early modern
philosophy. He is the co-editor with Uriah Kriegel
of Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness (MIT, 2006).
Emeritus Faculty
