Philosophy

Faculty
Janet Folina
Geoff Gorham
Martin Gunderson
Joy Laine
Diane Michelfelder
Karen Warren

Bill Wilcox

Visiting Faculty
Amy Ihlan

Retired Faculty
Henry West

Faculty

Geoff Gorham

Associate Professor

Office: Old Main 100
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00-2:15 or by appointment.
Telephone Number: 651.696.6048
E-mail: ggorham@macalester.edu

Courses for Spring 2010
PHIL 119-01: Critical Thinking
PHIL 231-01: Modern Philosophy

Courses for Fall 2009
PHIL 115-01/-02: Problems of Philosophy (2 sections)
PHIL 230: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Current Research Interests: Descartes

Key publications or presentations:
1.    Philosophy of Science: A Beginner's Guide. Under contract with One World Press, Oxford.

2.    "Descartes on God's Relation to Time". Forthcoming, Religious Studies, 2008.

3.    “Theology and Philosophy in Seventeenth Century England.” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Religion. Forthcoming, 2008.

4.    “Descartes on Time and Duration.” Early Science and Medicine 12: 28-54, 2007.

5.    “Cartesian Temporal Discontinuity: A New Defense; A New Refutation.” Forthcoming, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2007.

6.    “Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts”, Forthcoming in Time and Identity: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 6, MIT Press, 2007.

7.    Review of Jonathan Edwards and the Metaphysics of Sin, Oliver Crisp, Ashgate Publishing Co. Forthcoming, Faith and Philosophy, 2006.

8.    Review of Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter and Metaphysics, Christia Mercer and Eileen O’Neill (ed.), Oxford University Press. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005.

9.    "The Metaphysical Foundation of Cartesian Physics: The Law of Rectilinear Motion." Perspectives on Science, 13: 431-451, 2005.

10.“Norman Kemp Smith.” Encyclopedia of Modern British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, 2005. (Also published in Encyclopedia of Modern American Philosophers. Substantially revised version will be published in Biographical  Encyclopedia of British Idealism.)

11.“Cartesian Causation: Continuous, Instantaneous, Overdetermined.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 42: 389-423, 2004.

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