UCSC Philosophy Humanities Research Fellow

Colin Koopman

Contact Information

Email: cwkoopman@gmail.com

Office Hours: please email

Mailbox: Stevenson 234

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, McMaster University (Canada), 2006

M.A., Philosophy, Leeds University (England), 1999

B.A., Humanities, The Evergreen State College, 1998

Areas of Interest

Political and Social Philosophy, American Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

My postdoctoral research work at UCSC is focused on exploring philosophical and historiographical connections between pragmatists like John Dewey and genealogists like Michel Foucault.

Conferences & Publications

Pragmatism as Transitionalism (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009).

"Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Hope: Emerson, James, Dewey, and Rorty" in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v20n2, Summer 2006

"William James's Politics of Personal Freedom" in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v19n2, Summer 2005

"Publicity and Privacy: The Future of a Distinction" forthcoming in Free Inquiry, v27n6, September/October 2007

Various reviews and review essays (see website link below)

Numerous conference presentations (see website link below)

Various articles in peer-review journals and conference presentations (see website link below)

Recent Courses

"Liberalism and Its Critics"

"Philosophy of Race and Gender"

"Imagining Justice"

Links and Online Papers

Website