Susan M. FeldmanProfessor of Philosophy (1980).East College Room 211feldmans@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1226
Susan M. FeldmanProfessor of Philosophy (1980).East College Room 211(717) 245-1226 | feldmans@dickinson.edu B.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1974; M.A., 1976; M.A., University of Rochester, 1978; Ph.D., 1980.Her interests include the history of modern philosophy, the problem of knowledge and skepticism, philosophy of science and ethics, both pure" and "applied" to such areas as the environment, the status of women, medicine and public policy."
Jessica Wahman (on leave of absence 2012-13) Associate Professor of Philosophy (2004).East College Room 210(717) 245-1217 | wahmanj@dickinson.edu B.A., Skidmore College, 1990; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2002.She specializes in American philosophy, particularly the work of George Santayana, and also in philosophical issues pertaining to psychology. She has broad interests in other topics connected to these specializations--in particular, philosophy of mind, epistemology, existentialism, and the philosophy of education.
Chauncey MaherAssistant Professor of Philosophy (2008).East College Room 202(717) 245-1791 | maherc@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., University of Maryland, 2001; M.A., University of Chicago, 2002; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2008.Are there essentially social or normative aspects to cognition, knowledge, language or action? How so? Those are the sorts of big question that have interested me in my research and teaching. In the summer of 2012, I published a short book on "the Pittsburgh School", a group of contemporary philosophers focused on trying to understand how humans uniquely occupy a “logical space of reasons” .
Jo-Jo KooVisiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2012).East College Room 210kooj@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., Wesleyan University, 1993; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2011.His research interests focus generally (though not exclusively) on the social dimension of human existence and activities in both the "analytic" and “continental” traditions in Western philosophy, ranging from 19th and 20th century European philosophy (especially early Heidegger and philosophical hermeneutics), social ontology, and the philosophy of the social sciences, to the philosophy of race and gender, as well as to the social dimension of the philosophy of language and mind. His work thus far has focused especially on understanding the social constitution of the human individual properly and its ramifications for conceptions of human sociality in certain strands of 20th century European and contemporary analytic philosophy. In this academic year, he has been invited to present his recent work at philosophy conferences in Copenhagen, Denmark (September 2012) and in Vienna, Austria (March 2013).
Corwin AragonVisiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2012).East College Room 201aragonc@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Colorado-Boulder, 2004; M.A., 2008; Ph.D., 2013.He specializes in Social and Political Philosophy (including issues of Global Justice), Normative Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, and Philosophy of Race. His current research aims to build an account of individual responsibility for structural injustice; specifically, he argues that our social connections to injustices make us morally complicit for them and this complicity generates weighty responsibilities to work to remedy those injustices. He also has published work on male feminism and presented work on a number of philosophical topics, such as democratic theory, immigration, the morality of racial humor, and men teaching feminism.
Crispin Sartwell (on leave Fall 2012) Associate Professor of Art and Art History (2004).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 203(717) 245-1474 | sartwelc@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., University of Maryland, 1980; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1985; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1989.Author of "Political Aesthetics" (Cornell University Press, 2010), "Six Names of Beauty" (Routledge 2004), and many other books. Interests include hip hop and other popular musics, anarchist political theory, epistemology, Asian philosophy.