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Philosophy Department
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone (831) 459-2070

Fax (831) 459-2650


People at UCSC Philosophy

Staff

STAFF
Elizabeth Lynn Galiste
Department Manager/Graduate Advisor
Laura McShane
Dept Assistant/Undergraduate Advisor

elizg@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-4578

lmcshane@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-2070

The Philosophy Department Offices are located in 4 and 5 Cowell Commons. It is open weekdays from 8-12 and 1-5, Pacific time.

FACULTY (Office hours listed below are for winter 2008)

John Bowin (Ph.D., University of University of Texas, Austin)
Assistant Professor

Academic interests: Ancient philosophy, metaphysics
Office: A111 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-5676, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: jbowin@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Not teaching spring 2008


Jonathan Ellis (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Assistant Professor

Academic interests: Philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, Wittgenstein.
Office: A108 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-4249, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: jellis@ucsc.edu
Office hours: By appointment only

Daniel Guevara (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)
Associate Professor

Academic interests: Kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy
Office: A107 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-3600, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: guevara@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 2:00-3:00

David Hoy (Ph.D., Yale University)
Professor

Academic interests: Contemporary European philosophy
Office: A103 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-4056, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: hoy@ucsc.edu
Office hours:

For Hisc/Phil 252: Fridays 1:00-2:00 pm
For Phil 109: Thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm


Jocelyn Hoy (Ph.D., Yale University)
Lecturer

Academic interests: Feminist philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy
Office: 181 Cowell
Phone: (831) 459-3403, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: jbhoy@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:00 pm and by appointment

Colin Koopman (Ph.D., McMaster University (Canada))
Visiting Lecturer

Academic interests: Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics, Continental Philosophy, Pragmatism
Office: A101 Cowell
Phone: 459-2609 (msg)
Email: cwkoopman@gmail.com
Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-2:00 pm

Richard Otte (Ph.D., University of Arizona)
Professor

Academic interests: Philosophy of religion, formal epistemology, philosophy of
science, philosophical logic
Office: A109 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-2819, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: otte@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Tuesday 1:00-2:00 pm and by appointment

Paul Roth (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Professor and Chair

Academic interests: Philosophy of social science, philosophy and sociology of science, epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of history
Office: A112 Cowell
Phone: (831) 459-2191, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: paroth@ucsc.edu
Office hours: By appointment only

Rajesh Sampath (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine)
Visiting Lecturer

Academic interests: 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, particularly Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida and the philosophy of religion
Office: A105 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-5045, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: rsampath@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Fridays 8:00-9:15 am

Abraham Stone (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Assistant Professor

Academic interests: History of 20th century philosophy (continental & analytic), 19th century continental philosophy, philosophy of science, metaphysics, medieval philosophy
Office: A106 Cowell Annex
Phone: (831) 459-5648, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: abestone@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Not teaching spring 2008

Ellen Suckiel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Professor

Academic interests: Ethical theory, William James, American philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethical issues in genetics, ethics of biotechnology, ethics of stem cell research
Office: Provost's Office, Adlai E. Stevenson College
Phone: (831) 459-2328, 459-3408 (msg)
Email: suckiel@ucsc.edu
Office hours:

Tuesdays 10:30-11:30, Wednesday 11:15-12:15, and by appointment, in the Provost office.


Rasmus Winther
Assistant Professor

Academic interests: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology
Office:   A104 Cowell Annex
Phone:   (831) 459-5648, 459-2609 (msg)
Email: rgw@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 2:00-4:00 pm and by appointment

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EMERITI FACULTY

W. Emmanual Abraham, M.A., B.Phil., Oxford University
Principal interests: history of philosophy, logical analytic approach to problems in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, Leibniz
Email: abraham@ucsc.edu

Robert Goff, Ph.D. Drew University, B.A. Colgate University
principal interests: philosophy of religion, religious philosophy, philosophy in and as literature, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein
Email: robtg@ucsc.edu

S. Paul Kashap, B.Litt., Oxford University
Principal interests: 17th Century rationalism, analytic philosophy, ethics, Indian philosophy

Carlos Norena, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Principal interests: history of philosophy [Medieval and Renaissance], philosophy of history

Richard Wasserstrom, PhD, University of Michigan; LL.B, Stanford University
Principal interests: ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law
Email: wasser@ucsc.edu

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AFFILIATED FACULTY

Karen Barad, Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy

Jerome Neu, Professor of Humanities

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TEACHING FELLOWS


Zachary Fruhling (ABD., University of California, Santa Cruz)
Teaching Fellow

Academic interests: Philosophy of mind, systematic theology, history of modern philosophy, science and religion debate
Office: A101 Cowell
Phone: 459-2609 (msg)
Email: zfruhlin@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Friday 9:30-10:30 am


Jacob Metcalf (ABD., University of California, Santa Cruz)
Teaching Fellow

Academic interests: Environmental philosophy, bioethics, continental philosophy (esp. Heidegger), and science studies.
Office: A101 Cowell
Phone: 459-2609 (msg)
Email: jmetcalf@ucsc.edu
Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-1:30 pm

 

 

 

 

 


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