Faculty Members 2010-2011
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David Cunning Associate Professor. He is author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations (Oxford, 2010). 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), Plato's Sophist: A Translation with a Detailed Account of its Theses and Arguments (2005), and Candrakirti on the Selflessness of Persons (forthcoming)..
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), A Defense of the Given (1996), and Divine Intervention (2010). His teaching and research
interests also include modal logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Carrie Figdor Assistant Professor. Her research areas include philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and metaphysics, with neuroethics and media ethics as additional areas. She is currently working on related papers in mechanistic explanation of mind, the analysis of cognitive capacities, and the relation between cognitive capacities and experimental tasks. Her teaching interests include the above plus philosophy of language and philosophy of science.
Richard Fumerton F. Wendell Miller Professor. He is the author of Metaphysical and Epistemological Problems of Perception (1985), Reason and Morality: A Defense of the Egocentric Perspective (1990), Metaepistemology and Skepticism (1995), Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006), and Mill (with Wendy Donner, 2009), and he is the co-editor (with Diane Jeske) of Philosophy Through Film (2009). His present teaching and research interests include epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and value theory.
Ali Hasan Assistant Professor. His research and teaching interests include epistemology, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy with an emphasis on issues related to perception and perceptual knowledge. He is also interested in ethics, including such topcis as moral epistemology, ethical intuitionism, and the ethics of belief.
Diane Jeske Professor and Chair. Her published work in ethics addresses topics such as the grounds of special obligations to intimates, the nature of friendship, utilitarianism versus deontology, political obligation, and the nature of reasons. Her areas of specialization include ethical theory, the history of ethics, moral psychology and epistemology, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. She also teaches critical reasoning and applied ethics.
Gregory Landini Professor. He is the author of three books: Russell (Routledge 2010), Wittgenstein’s Apprentice with Russell (Cambridge, 2007) and Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory (Oxford, 1998). He has published many 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.
Katarina Perovic - Assistant Professor starting January 2011. Her main research and teaching interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and philosophy of language. Her current work focuses on the issues surrounding the problem of universals and the problem of the unity of the proposition. She is also interested in philosophy of mind, modern philosophy, and feminism.
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.
Emeritus Faculty
