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Philosophy Department Faculty



Edward Becker
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins).

1037 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2404
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#becker
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Professor Becker teaches graduate courses in analytic philosophy, and philosophy of language. His publications include articles on the philosophy of language, and he is currently completing a book on Quine.

Representative publications include:

"Holistic Behaviorism" Proceedings of the 9th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 1985.

"Quine and the Problem of Significance" Proceedings of the 7th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 1983.


Jean Cahan
Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Director of Judaic Studies(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University).

505 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2346
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#cahan
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She has published on Spinoza, modern Jewish philosophy and Marx. Her research interests include philosophy of religion and philosophy of history. She is currently working on a book on Spinoza.


Dan Corbett
Lecturer (Ph.D., Stanford University).

1036 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4388
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.htm#corbett
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Dan Corbett's areas of interest are: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and History of Modern Philosophy.


Albert Casullo
Professor (Ph.D.,Iowa)

1041 OldfatherHall
(402)472-2429
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#casullo (With online papers)
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Professor Casullo teaches graduate courses in epistemology and metaphysics. His publications focus on a priori knowledge, perception, and metaphysical issues connected with particulars and universals. He is the editor of the International Research Library of Philosophy volume on A Priori Knowledge, and the author of A Priori Justification.

Representative publications include:

“Knowledge, Truth, and Unthinkability,” in Larry Lee Blackman, ed., The Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov: A Collegial Evaluation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).

A Priori Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

"A Priori Knowledge" in P. Moser, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

"The Coherence of Empiricism" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2000):31-48.


Dan Crawford
Senior Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)

1040 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4392
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#crawford
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Dan Crawford has published in the areas of knowledge and perception, the cosmological argument, Augustine, and W. Sellars and Robert Brandom. His areas of specialization are epistemology, philosophy of mind, and religious thought.


Janice Dowell
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)



Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#dowell
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Prof. Dowell will join the faculty for the Fall 2007 semester, Her areas of primary research are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Metaphysics. She also has a serious secondary interest in metaethics.

Representative publications include:

"Serious Metaphysics and the Vindication of Reductions" (Philosophical Studies, forthcoming)

"Formulating Physicalism" (Philosophical Studies , October 2006, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp.1-23.)

"The Physical: Empirical, Not Metaphysical" (Philosophical Studies, October 2006, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp.25-60.)

"From Metaphysical to Substantive Naturalism: A Case Study" (Synthese, January 2004, Volume 138, No. 2, pp. 149-173.)


John Gibbons
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Brown University)

1042 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-3425
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#gibbons(With online papers)
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He does the philosophy of mind by doing action theory and epistemology. He has published on the individuation of content and the explanation of action. He currently is working on epistemic externalism and the nature of reasoning.

Representative publications include:

"Knowledge in Action" Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchLXII (2001).

"Externalism and Knowledge of the Attitudes" Philosophical Quarterly51 (2001).

"Externalism and Knowledge of Content" Philosophical Review 105 (1996).


Reina Hayaki
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Princeton University)

1039 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2031
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#hayaki (With online papers)
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Professor Hayaki received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2002. Her areas of specialization are philosophical logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language. She is currently writing a book on modality.

Representative publications include:

"Contingent Objects and the Barcan Formula", Erkenntnis 64 (2006), 87-95

"The Transience of Possibility", Forthcoming in the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2006)

"Actualism and Higher-Order Worlds", Philosophical Studies 115 (2003), 149-178


Harry Ide
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Cornell).

1004 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4389
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#ide
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Professor Ide teaches graduate courses in ancient, Hellenistic, and medieval philosophy. His publications concern issues in ancient philosophy and ethics.

Representative publications include:

"Aristotle, Metaphysics 6.2-3, and determinism" Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993): 341-354.

"Hobbes' Contractarian Account of Individual Responsibility for Group Actions" Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (1993): 455-464.

"Dunamis in Mataphysics 9" Apeiron 35(1992):1-26.


Jennifer McKitrick
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1008 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2073

Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#mckitrick
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Professor McKitrick received her Ph.D.in 1999 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research concerns metaphysics and philosophy of science, particularly dispositions and causal relevance. She also works on feminist philosophy and is a member of the department of Women's and Gender Studies at UNL.
http://www.unl.edu/womenssp/index.shtml

Representative publications include:

"The Bare Metaphysical Possibility of Bare Dispositions" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 2003.

"A Case for Extrinsic Dispositions" Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2003.

"Reid's Foundation for the Primary Quality / Secondary Quality Distinction" Philosophical Quarterly, October 2002. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays, John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds., Blackwell, 2003.

 


Joseph Mendola
Professor (Ph.D., Michigan) and Department Chair.

1009 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-0528
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#mendola(With online papers)
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Professor Mendola teaches graduate courses in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. His research concerns all of those areas.

Representative publications include:

“Multiple-Act Consequentialism”, Nous 40, (2006), 395-427.

"Consequences, Group Acts, and Trolleys”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005), 64-87.

“Knowledge and Evidence” forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy.

Goodness and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2006)


Nelson Potter
Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins)

1006 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-8229
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#potter
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Professor Potter teaches graduate courses in ethics and Kant. Most of his publications are on Kant's moral philosophy. He also publishes on capital punishment and aesthetics. His current research focuses on Kant's philosophy, especially his ethics, and on topics in aesthetics.

Representative publications include:

"Kant and the Moral Worth of Actions" Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (1996): 225-241.

"Kant on Obligation and Motivation in Law and Ethics" Jahrbuch für Recht and Ethik 2 (1994): 95-111.

"What is Wrong with Kant's Four Examples" Journal of Philosophical Research 43 (1993): 213-229.


Charles Sayward
Professor (Ph.D., Cornell)

1003 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4393
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#sayward
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Professor Sayward teaches graduate courses in philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. He has published extensively in these areas. He has published two books with Philip Hugly: Intensionality and Truth (Kluwer, 1996); Arithmetic and Ontology Vol. 90 of Monographs in Debate subseries of Poznan Studies in Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities, edited by Pieranna Garavaso (Rodopi, 2006). His current research focuses on the philosophy of mind.

Recent publications include:

"Applying the Concept of Pain" Iyyun, The Jewish Philosophical Quarterly, 52 (2003): 290-300.

"Does Scientific Realism Entail Mathematical Realism?" Facta Philosophica, 5 (2003): 173-182.

"Steiner versus Wittgenstein: Remarks on Differing Views of Mathematical Truth," Theoria 54 (2005) 347-352.

"Thompson Clarke and the Problem of Other Minds" Internal Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (2005): 1-14.

"What is the Logic of Propositianal Identity," Logic and Logical Philosophy 15 (2006): 3-15.


Robert Schopp
Robert J. Kutak Professor of Law, Ph.D University of Arizona, J.D., University of Arizona

255 Law College
(402) 472-1204
Website:
http://psycweb.unl.edu/psylaw/documents/robertschopp.html
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Professor Schopp practiced clinical psychology before turning to the study of law and philosophy in an attempt to understand some perplexing issues that he encountered during ten years of clinical practice. He joined the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1989 after completing the concurrent law/philosophy program at the University of Arizona. His primary areas of interest involve questions that lie at the intersection of law, psychology and philosophy. These issues tend to arise in criminal law, mental health law, jurisprudence and professional ethics.

Representative publications include:

Competence, Condemnation, and Commitment, Washington D.C., ( Amer. Psychological Assoc. Press, 2001)

"Multiple Personality Disorder, Accountable Agency, and Criminal Acts", 10 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 297 (2001)

Justification Defenses and Just Convictions, (Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998)

Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility, (Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press 1991)


David Sobel
Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences, (Ph.D., University of Michigan)


Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.html#sobel
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David Sobel's research and graduate teaching are primarily in ethics and metaethics, especially in the theory of value and reasons for action. He comes to The University of Nebraska from Bowling Green State University.

Representative publications include:

"Full Information Accounts of Well-Being" Ethics 104 (July 1994): 784-810.

"Subjective Accounts of Reasons for Action" Ethics 111 (April 2001): 461-92.

"Morality and Virtue," Ethics 114 (April 2004): 514-54. Co-authored
with David Copp.

"The Impotence of the Demandingness Objection," forthcoming in
Philosophers' Imprint.


Mark van Roojen
Professor (Ph.D., Princeton)

1005 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2428
Website: http://www.geocities.com/mvr1.geo/Philosophy.html
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Professor van Roojen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in normative ethics, metaethics, and political philosophy. His current research is also in the same areas. He has held visiting appointments in Philosophy at Brown University and most recently at the University of Arizona.

Representative publications include:

"Humean and Anti-Humean Motivational Internalism about Moral Judgements" Philosophy and Pheniomenological Research, July 2002.

"Motivational Internalism: A Somewhat Less Idealized Account" The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 50, No. 199 (April 2000), pp. 233-241.

"Reflective Moral Equilibrium and Psychological Theory" Ethics (July, 1999): pp 846-857.

"Expressivism and Irrationality" The Philosophical Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (July, 1996): pp. 322-335.