Faculty

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 11
860-685-2008

Chair, Philosophy
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

ENVS214 - 01
Women, Animals, Nature

ENVS273 - 01
Justice and the Environment

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

Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 216
860-685-3654

Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-3654

Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-3654

sangle@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
PHD University of Michigan

PHIL205 - 01
Classical Chinese Philosophy

PHIL322 - 01
Chinese Buddhist Philosophy

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

Office Hours:
Tuesday, 1pm - 3pm, and by appointment

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

Publications:
http://sangle.faculty.wesleyan.edu/files/2011/09/cv.pdf

BA Stanford University
MA Stanford University

Personal Homepage:
www.ashaleenabhandary.com

Office Hours:
Fall 2011 Thursdays 12:30-2:30 pm Spring 2012 TBD

Research Interests:
My research centers on the importance of the social and political context of choice for individual action. I am currently working on a book project called "Liberalism and Dependency Care," in which I evaluate the potential for liberalism to address the human need for care.

Scholarly Keywords:
Political philosophy, ethics, applied ethics, feminist ethics, the capabilities approach, autonomy theory

Academic Associations:
American Philosophical Association, Feminist Ethics and Social Thought, North American Society for Social 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

Editor, History and Theory
860-685-3648

bfay@wesleyan.edu

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

CSS371 - 01
Jr Col:Soc. & Political Theory

PHIL220 - 01
Plato, Sartre & Camus, Dewey

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

BA Harvard University
PHD Stanford University

COL306 - 01
The Beautiful and the Sublime

PHIL252 - 01
19th C. European Philosophy

COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium

PHIL333 - 01
Beauty, Science and Morality

Office Hours:
<p>Wednesdays, 4-5pm and by appointment&nbsp;(Squash 319)&nbsp;</p>

Research Interests:
My current book project examines the role of systematicity in Kants 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 Kants 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

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

shorst@wesleyan.edu

BA Boston University
PHD University of Notre Dame

PHIL217 - 01
Moral Psychology

PHIL286 - 01
Philosophy Of Mind

PHIL202 - 01
Classics II:Early Modern Phil

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

Office Hours:
Tuesday 10:30-noon, WEdnesday 12:30-2

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

BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 4-5 pm (Butterfield C512)

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
PHD Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University

CHUM327 - 01
Heidegger & Sense of Being

PHIL265 - 01
Postanalytic Philosophy

SISP202 - 01
Philosophy of Science

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

Office Hours:
Fall 2011: M 3-4 Russell House 202 W 11-12 Allbritton 209 Th 11-12 Allbritton 209 other meetings by appointment, usually in Russell House 202. Spring 2012: On sabbatical, but teaching one course postponed from fall and chairing SiSP

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

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 Cornell University
BA Oxford University
PHD Harvard University

PHIL232 - 01
Beginning Philosophy

PHIL293 - 01
Metaphysics

PHIL233 - 01
Riddles of Existence

PHIL390 - 01
Topics in Metaphysics

Office Hours:
Wed 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<br>
history of analytic philosophy<br>
philosophy of mathematics<br>
philosophy of language<br><br>
I am also interested in and teach:<br>
mathematical logic<br>
epistemology<br>
metaphysics<br>
history of early modern European philosophy

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

Faculty Fellow, College of the Environment
284 High Street 302
860-685-3656

espringer@wesleyan.edu

BA Wesleyan University
MA University of Connecticut
PHD University of Connecticut

PHIL212 - 01
Introduction to Ethics

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
PHD University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University