Faculty

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 207A
860-685-3645

Chair, Philosophy
860-685-3645

shorst@wesleyan.edu

BA Boston University
PHD University of Notre Dame

PHIL381 - 01
Topics in Philosophy of Mind

PHIL286 - 01
Philosophy Of Mind

Personal Homepage:
http://shorst.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Wednesdays 10-12, Thursdays 10:40-12 and by appointment

Scholarly Keywords:
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, moral psychology

Academic Associations:
American Philosophical Association
Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Grants:
2002. NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, U C Santa Cruz. 1997-1998. NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1997-1998. Visiting Scholar, Princeton University. May, 1998. Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. Spring, 1997. Keck Mentor for Development of Technology in the Humanities, Wesleyan University. Fall, 1993. Visiting Scholar, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University. July-August 1993. NEH Summer Institute on Meaning, Rutgers University. June-July 1993. NEH Summer Institute on Naturalism, University of Nebraska. June-August 1991. NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Mental Representation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Publications:
http://shorst.web.wesleyan.edu/horstcv500.pdf

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 216
860-685-3654

Co-Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures
Russell House 216

Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-3654

Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-3654

Chair, East Asian Studies Program

Director, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies

sangle@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
PHD University of Michigan

PHIL205 - 01
Classical Chinese Philosophy

PHIL272 - 01
Human Rights Across Cultures

Personal Homepage:
http://sangle.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: None (sabbatical)

Research Interests:

My research interests revolve around various aspects of Chinese moral and political philosophy, including issues that arise when one thinks about the process of comparing Chinese ideas and traditions with the ideas and traditions of other cultures. I focus primarily on post-classical Chinese thought, up to and including the contemporary period. I have written on the development of Chinese human rights discourse, its various interactions with non-Chinese discourses, and on ways in which we in the West should relate to these Chinese ideas. My current research looks at relations between Confucian ideas and contemporary philosophical concerns in a different area: drawing on work I have done on the idea of "sagehood," I am exploring whether the neo-Confucian philosophical and religious tradition (roughly 1000 C.E. - present) has resources that can contribute constructively to a contemporary, globally-informed philosophy of moral psychology and moral education.

Scholarly Keywords:

Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Human Rights, and Moral Psychology

Academic Associations:

American Philosophical Association Association of Asian Studies International Society for Chinese Philosophy International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

William Griffin Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 201
860-685-3648

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 201
860-685-3648

Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-3648

bfay@wesleyan.edu

BA Loyola Marymount Uni
DPHIL Oxford University
MA Oxford University
MAA Wesleyan University

CSS371 - 01
Jr Col:Soc. & Political Theory

Office Hours:
By Appointment

Research Interests:
My research concentrates on questions about the nature of social inquiry and its relation to politics and ethics.

Scholarly Keywords:
Philosophy and Social Inquiry; Philosophy of History

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 11
860-685-2008

Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-2008

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-2008

lgruen@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Colorado Boulder
PHD University of Colorado Boulder

Personal Homepage:
http://lgruen.web.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
I will be in my Russell House office on alternate Tuesdays and am available by appointment. Please contact me by e-mail.

Research Interests:
My research lies at the intersection of ethical theory and ethical practice. I have written on a range of topics in practical ethics and am currently concentrating on the ethical implications of human interactions with non-human animals and the rest of nature.

Scholarly Keywords:
Ethics (normative and practical), Political Philosophy, Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy

BA Harvard University
PHD Stanford University

Office Hours:

Wednesdays, 4-5pm and by appointment (Squash 319) 

Research Interests:
My current book project examines the role of systematicity in Kant's philosophy. I argue that, despite its regulative status, the principle of systematicity must be considered a necessary condition for the possibility of experience on a par with the categories. Appreciating the true import of the principle of systematicity not only forces us to reconsider central tenets of Kant's epistemology, but also, and more generally, it helps us to recognize the deeper connection of theoretical philosophy to aesthetics, teleology, and practical philosophy.

Scholarly Keywords:
Kant, History of Modern Philosophy History of Early Modern Philosophy Aesthetics

PHIL213 - 01
Freedom and Free Will

PHIL213 - 02
Freedom and Free Will

PHIL278 - 01
Topics in Political Philosophy

PHIL267 - 01
Aesthetics

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 13 LL
860-685-4462

Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 321

tirani@wesleyan.edu

BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium

PHIL201 - 01
Philosophical Classics I

Office Hours:

On leave 2012-2013.

Research Interests:

My research interests focus primarily on Ancient Greek philosophy, particularly the dialogues of Plato, though I have ancillary interests in ethics and in issues surrounding the practice of philosophical inquiry and argument.

I'm currently at work on a book, Lovers of Argument: A Study of Plato's Moral Psychology, that explores issues at the intersection of Plato's views in ethics and politics. The central claim is that the way in which we approach argument typically reveals something at a deeper level about our desires and motivations; in particular, since the power of argument lies in its ability to influence others, a proper engagement with argument demands a proper engagement with others. On this reading of Plato, the key to engaging in argument correctly is found in his understanding of erôs. I develop this reading by focusing on the theme of philologia (literally: "love of argument") in Plato's moral psychology and its appearance in four of his works that deal with the topic of love, rhetoric, and the practice of philosophy: the Gorgias, Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus. When complete, this book will offer the first systematic study of Plato's views on the role of human motivation in argument and on the role of argument generally in civic life.

Scholarly Keywords:

Plato; Ancient Greek philosophy; moral psychology; ethics (classical and contemporary)

Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Chair, Science in Society
Russell House 202
860-685-3655

Professor, Science in Society
860-685-3655

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3655

jrouse@wesleyan.edu

BA Oberlin College
MA Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Northwestern University

PHIL258 - 01
Post-Kantian European Phil

SISP202 - 01
Philosophy of Science

SISP419 - 01
Student Forum

PHIL383 - 01
Mind, Body, and World

SISP205 - 01
Sciences as Social Practices

Personal Homepage:
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Fall 2012: M 3-4 CHUM 203; Th 1-2 Allbritton 219; or by appointment, usually in CHUM 203.

Spring 2012:TBA, split between Russell House 202 and Allbritton 219.

Research Interests:

Professor Rouse specializes in the philosophy of science, the history of 20th C. philosophy, and interdisciplinary science studies. His primary foci within these areas include the philosophy of scientific practice; naturalism and anti-naturalism in 20th Century philosophy; connections between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy; relations between philosophy of science and philosophy of mind/language and metaphysics; cultural studies of science and feminist science studies. He is currently working on a book on conceptual understanding in science and in discursive practice generally.

Scholarly Keywords:

Philosophy of Science; 20th Century Philosophy; Social and Historical Studies of Science

Academic Associations:

American Philosophical Association Philosophy of Science Association History of Science Society Society for Social Studies of Science International Society for Phenomenological Studies Society for Literature and Science

Lab URL:
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

Publications:
http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/publication-list/

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 206
860-685-3646

sshieh@wesleyan.edu

AB Cornell University
BA Oxford University
BA Cornell University
PHD Harvard University

PHIL231 - 01
Reason and Paradox

PHIL388 - 01
Topics in Philosophy of Lang

PHIL232 - 01
Beginning Philosophy

PHIL290 - 01
Philosophical Logic

Office Hours:

Thurs afternoons by appointment

Research Interests:

I am currently intermittently working on two projects. One is the question of the compatibility of the notion of intuition and logicism in the epistemology of mathematics. The other is a conceptual history of the notion of necessity in early analytic philosophy.

Scholarly Keywords:

philosophy of logic
history of analytic philosophy
philosophy of mathematics
philosophy of language

I am also interested in and teach:
mathematical logic
epistemology
metaphysics
history of early modern European philosophy

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 215
860-685-3656

espringer@wesleyan.edu

BA Wesleyan University
MA University of Connecticut
PHD University of Connecticut

PHIL212 - 01
Introduction to Ethics

PHIL271 - 01
Moral Responsibility

ENVS347 - 01
Ethics and Fluency: Metaphors

PHIL277 - 01
Feminist Phil & Moral Theory

Personal Homepage:
http://espringer.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Spring 2011: Tuesdays 3-4:30; Thursdays 12-1:30; and by appointment

Research Interests:
I am broadly engaged with moral theory, and more specifically with the relationship between moral ideals and the activity of criticism. Bringing a broadly pragmatist account of judgment and communication to bear on moral discourse, I show how the challenges of moral criticism require us to rethink some standard assumptions in moral theory. I am also interested in moral responsibility, the consequences of human social embodiment, and interpretive questions about how to understand actions that we oppose.

Scholarly Keywords:
Moral Theory, Moral Psychology, American Pragmatism, Feminist Theory

Academic Associations:
American Philosophical Association (APA)
Society of Women In Philosophy (SWIP)
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST)

Publications:
http://espringer.web.wesleyan.edu/#[[research]]

MAA Wesleyan University

BA University of Wisconsin
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Chicago