Philosophy

2012-13 General Catalog

Cowell College
(831) 459-2070
http://philosophy.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

W. Emmanuel Abraham, Emeritus

David C. Hoy, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus

S. Paul Kashap, Emeritus

Carlos G. Noreña, Emeritus

Richard E. Otte
Philosophy of religion, formal epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical logic

Paul A. Roth
Philosophy of social science, philosophy and sociology of science, epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of history

Ellen Kappy Suckiel, Emerita

Richard A. Wasserstrom, Emeritus

Associate Professor

John F. Bowin
Ancient philosophy, especially ancient science and metaphysics, and contemporary analytic metaphysics

Jonathan Ellis
Philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein

Robert A. Goff, Emeritus

Daniel Guevara
Kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy

Abraham D. Stone
Nineteenth- and early 20th-century German philosophy (continental and analytic), philosophy of science and mathematics, medieval philosophy, metaphysics, Kant

Assistant Professor

Rasmus G. Winther
Philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of biology, American pragmatism, Latin American philosophy, evolutionary theory , philosophy of mind, Continental philosophy

Lecturer

Jocelyn Hoy
Feminist philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy

Professor

Karen M. Barad (Feminist Studies)
Science studies, poststructuralist theory, feminist theory, queer theory, 20th-Century continental philosophy, philosophy of science, and physics

Sandra Chung (Linguistics)
Syntax, semantics, Austronesian languages

Jerome Neu (Humanities)
Philosophy of mind; emotions, culture, and insults; philosophy of law; Freud and psychoanalytic theory

Revised: 8/13/12