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Davis Baird (Ph.D., Stanford, 1981). Professor and Dean, South Carolina Honors College. Areas of specialization: History and philosophy of science and technology, including the philosophy of statistics and inductive logic; scientific instrumentation, with an emphasis on analytical chemical instrumentation developed during the mid-20th century; nanotechnology. Current research interests: Philosophical, societal, and ethical implications of nanotechnology. [ directory | send email ]
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Anne Bezuidenhout (Ph.D., Michigan, 1990). Professor and Chair of Philosophy. Areas of specialization: Pragmatics; semantics/pragmatics interface; theories of verbal communication; experimental pragmatics; philosophy of mind; epistemology. Current research interests: Indexicals and context-shifting; generalized conversational implicatures and default reasoning. [ directory | send email ]
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Tom Burke (Ph.D., Stanford, 1992). Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Areas of specialization: American philosophy, pragmatism, pragmatist philosophy of mind, John Dewey's philosophy of logic, G. H. Mead's social psychology. Current research interests: Pragmatism and dynamic logic; pragmatism and pragmatics; pragmatist philosophy of mind and views of human origins. [ directory | send email ]
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Michael Dickson (B.A./B.S., University of South Carolina, 1990; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1995). Professor and Director of Graduate Placement. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; philosophy of quantum mechanics; evolutionary game theory; science and religion Current research interests: probability and information; risk; evolutionary game theory [ directory | send email ]
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Martin J. Donougho (Ph.D., Toronto, 1980). Professor. Areas of specialization: German Idealism; aesthetics; continental philosophy; 19C philosophy; philosophy of history; modern philosophy. Current research interests: Genealogical study of philosophy of art--formation of a discourse about art, and current prospects. [ directory | send email ]
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Kevin C. Elliott (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2004). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of Science; Practical Ethics (Environmental, Biomedical, Scientific Research) Current research interests: Analyzing environmental research from both philosophy-of-science and practical-ethics perspectives (e.g., investigating the role of values in scientific practice, evaluating strategies for responding to uncertainty, examining reasoning strategies for scie [ directory | send email ]
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Jeremiah Hackett (Ph.D., Toronto, 1983). Professor. Areas of specialization: Late ancient, medieval and Renaissance philosophy; neoplatonism; Roger Bacon and his contemporaries; medieval and Renaissance science; metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Current research interests: Roger Bacon and Averroism; Robert Grosseteste's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle; Meister Eckhart and philosophy in 14c. Germany; Heidegger on Augustine; Heidegger on the uses of history of philosophy and science. [ directory | send email ]
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RIG Hughes (Ph.D., British Columbia, 1979). Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of physics; philosophical logic; theatre aesthetics; theoretical practices of physics. [ directory | send email ]
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Ann Johnson (Ph.D., History of Science, Princeton, 2000). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: History and philosophy of engineering. Current research interests: Engineering design, technological knowledge, and the social and epistemological structures of engineering communities; computational nanotechnology. [ directory | send email ]
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George Khushf (Ph.D., Rice, 1993). Associate Professor and Director, Medical Humanities Minor. Areas of specialization: Bioethics and philosophy of medicine; concepts of health and disease; medical epistemology and axiology. Current research interests: Market-based health care. [ directory | send email ]
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Matthew J. Kisner (Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2004). Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Advisement. Areas of specialization: History of Modern Philosophy Current research interests: Early Modern Ethics [ directory | send email ]
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Leah McClimans (Ph.D., London School of Economics, 2007). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Bioethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science. Current research interests: Methodology of health-related quality of life measures; the art of questioning and the use of empirical outcomes in bioethical decisions. [ directory | send email ]
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Konstantin Pollok (Dr.phil., Marburg, 2000). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: History of modern philosophy, esp. Kant; history of science; practical reasoning. Current research interests: Kant's theory of normativity. [ directory | send email ]
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Heike Sefrin-Weis (Dr.rer.nat., Mainz, 1997; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 2002). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Ancient philosophy & ancient science, particularly Aristotle & Plato; Greek mathematics; history and philosophy of mathematics. Current research interests: Aristotle's metaphysics project [ directory | send email ]
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Michael Stoeltzner (Dr.phil., Bielefeld, 2003; M.Sc., Vienna, 1995). Associate Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy and history of physics and applied mathematics; epistemology of applied science; models and ceteris paribus laws; patterns of formal teleology. Current research interests: Causality and indeterminism in the early 20th century; the principle of least action in a philosophical perspective; ceteris paribus laws in applied science. [ directory | send email ]
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Christopher Tollefsen (Ph.D., Emory, 1995). Professor. Areas of specialization: Practical ethics. Current research interests: Basis goods ethics, ethics of inquiry, disability and social justice. [ directory | send email ]
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Jerry Wallulis (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1978). Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Areas of specialization: Contemporary German social philosophy; social philosophy; philosophy of religion; general history of philosophy. Current research interests: Philosophical implications of social insecurity; conceptions of transcendence and transversality in the philosophy of religion. [ directory | send email ]
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Justin Weinberg (Ph.D., Georgetown, 2004). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Political and social philosophy, ethics. Current research interests: The agency of justice; empirical information in normative theory; ideal & non-ideal political theory; civil society; future generations; emerging technologies; moral hazard; experimentation & experimental philosophy. [ directory | send email ]
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Eugene Long (Ph.D., Glasgow, 1964). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: Phenomenology and existentialism; philosophy of religion; issues in contemporary European philosophy of religion [ directory | send email ]
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Robert Mulvaney (Ph.D., Emory, 1965). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: Seventeenth century philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy for children Current research interests: Reception of Leibniz in America [ directory | send email ]
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Ignas Skrupskelis (Ph.D., Toronto, 1967). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: American philosophy; modern philosophy Current research interests: William James's correspondence [ directory | send email ]
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Associated Faculty:
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Edward Munn Sanchez (Ph.D., Emory, 1996). Adjunct Faculty and Associate Dean, South Carolina Honors College. Areas of specialization: Social and political philosophy; ethical, social, and political Issues in science and in particular nanotechnology; ethical theory; applied ethics; philosophy of technoogy; engineering ethics; professional ethics Current research interests: The normative role of experts in science policy; normative issues raised by nanotechnology and the convergence of nanotech, information technology, cognitive science, and biotechnology. The relation of science to liberal democracy. [ directory | send email ]
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Alfred Nordmann (Ph.D., Hamburg, 1986). Adjunct Faculty and Professor, Technische Universitat Darmstadt. Areas of specialization: History, philosophy, and sociology of science; epistemology; theatre aesthetics; Kant, Lichtenberg, Hertz, Peirce, and Wittgenstein. Current research interests: The emergence and development of nanotechnoscience; the epistemological ideal of unmediated cognition in Kant, Hertz, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of science. [ directory | send email ]
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Anne Pollok (Dr.phil., Halle/Germany, 2007). Instructor. Areas of specialization: History of Early Modern Philosophy with special emphasis on anthropology and aesthetics (Mendelssohn, Kant, Schiller, among others). Current research interests: 18th century debate on the 'destination of man'. [ directory | send email ]
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Thomas Vogt (Ph.D., Chemistry, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen Germany, 1987). Adjunct Faculty and Director, USC NanoCenter. Areas of specialization: history of science; epistemology; ethical, legal, and societal implications of nanotechnology; science policy issues Current research interests: science and technology studies; mode-II knowledge production; post-academic science [ directory | send email ]
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K.C. Warble (M.A., University of South Carolina, 2007). Instructor. Areas of specialization: postmodern & Kantian aesthetics, philosophy of religion Current research interests: how to take care of a child under one year old [ directory | send email ]
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