Faculty Members 2009-2010
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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
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), and Metaepistemology and Skepticism (1995), Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006), 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 Associate Professor and Chair. 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 two books: 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.
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
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