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.shtml#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....
Aaron Bronfman
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
1040 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4392
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#bronfman
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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.shtml#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.
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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:
A Priori Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); paperback edition (2005).
"Defeasible A Priori Justification: A Reply to Thurow," The Philosophical Quarterly, 58 (2008): 336-343.
"Testimony and A Priori Knowledge,"Episteme 4 (2007): Episteme 4 (2007): 322-334.
"Analyzing A Priori Knowledge," Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
Janice Dowell
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)
1036 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4388
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#dowell (With online papers)
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Professor Dowell's areas of primary research are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Metaphysics. She also has a serious secondary interest in metaethics.
Representative papers include:
"Empirical Metaphysics: The Role of Intuitions about Possible Cases in Philosophy" (Philosophical Studies, BSPC 2007 volume, July 2008, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp.19-46.)
"A Priori Entailment and Conceptual Analysis: Making Room for Type-C Physicalism" (Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2008, Volume 86, Issue 1, pp.93-111.)
"Serious Metaphysics and the Vindication of Reductions" (Philosophical Studies, May 2008, Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.91-110.)
"A Defense of Canonical Contextualism About Epistemic Modals" (work in progress)
John Gibbons Associate Professor (Ph.D., Brown University)
1042 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-3425
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#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:
“You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do” Nous (forthcoming)
“Mental Causation Without Downward Causation” Philosophical Review 115 (2006)
“Access Externalism” Mind 115 (2006)
“Knowledge in Action” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXII (2001)
Reina HayakiAssistant Professor (Ph.D., Princeton University)
1039 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2031
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#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.
Representative publications include:
"Contingent Objects and the Barcan Formula", Erkenntnis 64 (2006), 87-95
"The Transience of Possibility", European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1 (2007), 25-36.
"Actualism and Higher-Order Worlds", Philosophical Studies 115 (2003), 149-178
David Henderson
Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences, (Ph.D., Washington University)
1015 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2425
Website:http://www.unl.edu/Henderson/index.shtml
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David Henderson teaches and writes primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences. His interests in epistemology largely revolve around what it is to be justified in holding a belief. He has written on epistemological internalism and externalism, on various versions of reliabilism, on foundationalism and coherentism, on virtue epistemology, and on a priori justification. He is also interested in testimonial based knowledge, and in contextual accounts of knowledge. His work in the philosophy of the social science has focused on the relations between interpretation and explanation, and on the place for attributions of rationality and irrationality.
Harry IdeAssociate Professor (Ph.D., Cornell).
1004 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4389
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#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.shtml#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.
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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.shtml#mendola (With online papers)
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Joe Mendola teaches graduate courses in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of
mind.
Representative publications include:
Goodness and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
"Knowledge and Evidence", The Journal of Philosophy CIV, March 2007
Anti-Externalism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Nelson Potter Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins)
1006 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-8229
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#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 fuer Recht und
Ethik, Band 2 (1994), pp. 95-111. (R)“What is Wrong with Kant's Four Examples” Journal of Philosophical Research 43 (1993): 213-229.
Charles SaywardProfessor (Ph.D., Cornell)
1003 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-4393
Website: http://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#sayward
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Charles Sayward, Professor of Philosophy University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professor Sayward teaches graduate and undergraduate 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: (1) Intensionality and Truth , (Kluwer, 1996); (2) Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-realist Philosophy of Arithmetic, volume 90 of the Monographs-in-Debate subseries of Poznan Studies in Science and Humanities , edited by Pieranna Garavaso (Rodopi, 2006). Recent articles include: “What is the Logic of Propositional Identity?” (2006) Logic and Logical Philosophy , 15: 3-15; “What Truth is there in Psychological Egoism?” (2006) Facta Philosophica , 8: 145-159; “Quine and his Critics on Truth-Functionality and Extentionsionality” (2007) Logic and Logical Philosophy, 16: 45-63.
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://www.unl.edu/philosop/people/faculty.shtml#schopp
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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)
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Representative publications include:
“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,” Philosophers' Imprint, 2007.“Subjectivism and Idealization,” forthcoming in Ethics.
Mark van Roojen
Professor (Ph.D., Princeton)
1005 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-2428
Website: http://www.mvr1.com
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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:
"Knowing Enough To Disagree: A New Response to the Moral Twin Earth Argument," in Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.) Oxford Studies In Metaethics, Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, 2006), 161-193.
"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.
