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Karen Lewis

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Assistant Professor | Barnard College
http://www.columbia.edu/~kl2663/

B.A. Queen’s University, Canada (2003)

Ph.D. Rutgers University (2011)

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Street Address: 
326E Milbank Hall
Telephone: 
212-854-2047
Email: 
klewis@barnard.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Philosophy of Language; Philosophical Linguistics

Tamar Lando

Title | Organization: 
Assistant Professor | Columbia University

B.A. in Philosophy, Stanford University (2002)
M.A. in Mathematics, UC Berkeley (2008)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, UC Berkeley (2012)

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Street Address: 
707 Philosophy Hall
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MC 4971
Telephone: 
212-851-9547
Email: 
tal2108@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Logic; Epistemology

Articles / Publications: 

Dissertation: Probabilistic Semantics for Modal Logic 

"Completeness of S4 for the Lebesgue measure algebra," Journal of Philosophical Logic (2010)

"Dynamic Measure Logic," Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (2012)

 

Axel Honneth

Title | Organization: 
Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities | Columbia University

Professor Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University; Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (since 2001); and C4-Professor of Social Philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (since 1996).

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Street Address: 
713 Philosophy Hall
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MC: 4971
Telephone: 
212-851-5986
Email: 
ah2952@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Social Theory

Authored Books: 

The I in the We, Polity Press (forthcoming)

Das Recht der Freiheit, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011

The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel`s Social Theory, Princeton University Press, 2010

Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2009

Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, Oxford University Press, 2008

Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, Polity Press, 2007

Redistribution or Recognition?:  A Political– Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Nancy Fraser, Verso Press, 2003

The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, MIT Press 1996

The Fragmented World of the Social: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy, State University of New York Press 1995

The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, MIT Press 1991

Social Action and Human Nature, co-authored with Hans Joas, Cambridge University Press, 1988

Katja Vogt

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Professor | Columbia University
http://www.katjavogt.com

A specialist in ancient philosophy, ethics, and normative epistemology, and a recipient of the Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, Professor Vogt joined the Philosophy Department in 2002. Vogt is interested in questions that figure both in ancient and contemporary discussions: What are values? What kind of values are knowledge and truth?

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Street Address: 
712A Philosophy Hall
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Telephone: 
212-854-3539
Email: 
kv2101@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Ancient Philosophy; Metaethics; Normative Epistemology; Skepticism

Achille C. Varzi

Title | Organization: 
Professor | Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/~av72

Laurea Hons., Trento/Italy (1982)
M.A., Toronto (1983)
Ph.D., Toronto (1994)

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Street Address: 
713 Philosophy Hall
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Mail Code: 4971
Telephone: 
212-854-3531
Email: 
av72@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Logic; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language

Teaching: 

PHIL G4424 Modal Logic

David Sidorsky

Title | Organization: 
Professor | Columbia University

A.B., New York University (1948)
A.M., New York University (1954)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1962)

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Street Address: 
711 Philosophy Hall
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Mail Code: 4971
Telephone: 
212-854-3619
Email: 
ds25@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Political Philosophy; Ethical Theory

Carol Rovane

Title | Organization: 
Professor | Columbia University

Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983)

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Street Address: 
712B Philosophy Hall
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Mail Code: 4971
Telephone: 
212-854-8618
Email: 
cr260@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language and Mind; Ethics

Research: 

Carol Rovane’s current research focuses on several interrelated topics:  the first person, personal identity, relativism, the foundations of value, group vs. individual responsibility.  An abiding theme of her work, both recent and earlier, concerns what is a first person point of view.  In her book on personal identity, The Bounds of Agency:  An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, she explored the differences and interrelations (or rather lack thereof) between three notions of a point of view:  the bodily point of view of an animal, the phenomenological point of view of consciousness and the rational point of view of deliberation.  The book argues that groups and parts of human beings may have rational points of view, from which they can engage in distinctively interpersonal relations, and thereby qualify as individual persons in their own rights.  This amounts to a new interpretation of and argument for Locke’s distinction between personal and animal identity, one that has significant implications for the issue of group vs. individual responsibility.  The premise of her next book is that there is no general consensus in philosophical discussions of relativism about what the doctrine actually is.  She raises and meets a challenge that seems to stand in the way of making sense of the doctrine at all, and goes on to assess what speaks for and against it in the domains of science and ethics.  The emerging account has surprising consequences about how the issue of relativism relates to other metaphysical issues, most especially realism.  Her other current interests include knowledge of other minds, agency, and rationalism in ethics.

Authored Books: 

The Bounds of Agency:   An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, Princeton University Press, 1998 

 

For and Against Relativism, Columbia University Press, in progress.

Articles / Publications: 

“Williams on Ethical Relativism,” Reading Williams, Blackwell, forthcoming. 

 

“Can we Frame a Coherent Relativism?”,  Mind, Meaning and Knowledge:  Essays in Honor of Crispin Wright, vol. 1, ed. A. Coliva, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

 

“How Realism may Support Relativism,” volume on naturalism, ed. Mario de Caro, Harvard University Press, forthcoming.  

 

“Why do Individuals Matter?,” Daedalus, Special Issue on Identity, 2006.   

 

“On Anti-Representationalism,”  Protosociology, 2006.   

 

“Personal Identity:  Ethical not Metaphysical”  Essays on John McDowell, ed. C. MacDonald, Oxford University Press, 2006.   

 

“Mind-Body and the Limits of Inquiry,” Cambridge Companion to Chomsky, ed. J. McGilvray, Cambridge University Press, 2005.   

 

“Alienation and the Alleged Separateness of Persons,” Monist, 2005. 

 

“Anti-Representationalism and Relativism,  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005.   

 

“What is an Agent?” Synthese, 2005.   

 

“A Non-naturalist Account of Personal Identity,” Perspectives on Naturalism, ed. M. deCaro, Harvard University Press, 2004.  

 

“Rationality and Persons,” Oxford Handbook on Rationality, ed. A. Mele, Oxford University Press, 2003.   

 

“From a Rational Point of View,” Philosophical Topics, 2003.   

 

“Earning the Right to Realism and Relativism in Ethics,” Philosophical Issues, vol. 12 (2002). 

 

“Genetics and Personal Identity,” Oxford Companion to Genetics, ed. J. Burley et al, 2001.   

 

“Mind-Body or Mind-Mind?”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Spring 2000.   

 

"Rationality and Identity," Library of Living Philosophers:  Donald Davidson, ed. L. Hahn (founding ed. P. Schilpp), Open Court, 1999).  

 

"Charity and Identity," Donald Davidsons Philosophie des Mentalen, ed. W. Kohler, Forum fur Philosophie, 1998.   

 

"The Personal Stance," Philosophical Topics, Fall 1995 

 

"The Problem of Philosophy" (A Symposium with Colin McGinn), Philosophical Studies, vol. 76, 1994. 

 

"God Without Cause," Reason, Will and Sensation:  Studies in Cartesian Metaphysics, ed. J. Cottingham, Oxford University Press, 1993.   

 

"Self-Reference:  The Radicalization of Locke," Journal of Philosophy, February 1993.   

 

"Branching Self-Consciousness," Philosophical Review, July 1990. 

(Reprinted in The International Research Library of Philosophy, series ed. J. Skorupski, volume ed. H. Noonan.) 

 

 "The Epistemology of First Person Reference," Journal of Philosophy, March 1987.   

 

"The Metaphysics of Interpretation," in Truth and Interpretation, ed. E. LePore, Basil Blackwell, 1986.   

 

Publications – Reviews and Encyclopedia Articles 
“The Self,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2002.   

 

Review, Divided Minds and Successive Selves, J. Radden, Ethics, 2001.    

 

Critical Notice on Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness and Value, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1994.   

 

Review, Knowing Who, S. Boer and W. Lycan, Philosophical Review, July 1989.  

Christopher Ab Peacocke

Title | Organization: 
Professor | Columbia University

Professor Peacocke was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy in the University of Oxford, and held a Leverhulme Personal Research Professorship. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has taught at Berkeley, NYU and UCLA, and has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford. He was President of the Mind Association in 1986-7. In 2001, he delivered the Whitehead lectures at Harvard University, and in 2003 he gave the Immanuel Kant Lectures at Stanford.

Contact Info
Street Address: 
704 Philosophy Hall
Address: 
Mail Code: 4971
Telephone: 
212-854-3384
Email: 
cp2161@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Metaphysics; Epistemology

Elliot Paul

Title | Organization: 
Assistant Professor | Barnard College

 

Contact Info
Street Address: 
326A Milbank
Telephone: 
212-854-4498
Email: 
esp2117@columbia.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

Early Modern Philosophy; Epistemology; Creativity
 

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Frederick Neuhouser

Title | Organization: 
Professor | Barnard College

 

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Street Address: 
326D Milbank
Telephone: 
212-854-2064
Email: 
fneuhouser@barnard.edu
Areas of Specialization: 

19th-century German Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy

Research: 

Various talks and articles on social and spiritual pathology in Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and the Frankfurt School.

Authored Books: 

Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse (forthcoming)

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (Oxford, 2008) [in German: Pathologien der Selbstliebe (Suhrkamp, 2012)]

Actualizing Freedom: The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (Harvard, 2000)

Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990)


Translated Book

Alienation, by Rahel Jaeggi (Columbia, 2013)


Articles/Publications (sample)

"Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue," in Understanding Love through Philosophy, Film, and Literature (Oxford, 2013), eds. S. Wolf, C. Grau

"Marx (und Hegel) zur Philosophie der Freiheit," in Nach Marx, eds. R. Jaeggi, D. Loick (Suhrkamp, 2013), 25-47

"The Critical Function of Genealogy in the Thought of J.-J. Rousseau," Review of Politics 74 (2012), 371-87

"Rousseau und die Idee einer 'pathologischen' Gesellschaft," Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2012, 628-45

"Die normative Bedeutung von 'Natur' im moralischen und politischen Denken Rousseaus," in Sozialphilosophie und Kritik (Suhrkamp, 2009), ed. R. Forst, 109-33

"The Concept of Society in 19th Century Thought," in Cambridge History of Philosophy in the 19th Century, eds. A. Wood, S. Hahn (Cambridge, 2009)

"Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach Anerkennung,"    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 6/2008, 27-51 [In English as "Rousseau and the Human Drive for Recognition," The Philosophy of Recognition, eds. H.-C. Schmidt am Busch, C. F. Zurn  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)]

"Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and Lord" in Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Blackwell, 2008), ed. K. Westphal, 37-54

"Hegel's Social Philosophy," in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge, 2008), 2nd ed., ed. Frederick Beiser

"The Idea of a Hegelian Science of Society," A Companion to Hegel, ed. S.Houlgate, M.Baur (Blackwell, 2009)

"Rousseau on the Relation between Reason and Self-Love (Amour Propre)," Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus,   2003, 221-39

"Fichte and the Relation between Right and Morality," in Fichte:  Historical Context/Contemporary Controversies, ed. D. Breazeale and T. Rockmore (Humanities Press, 1994), 158-80

"Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will," The Philosophical Review (102) 1993, 363-95

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