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FACULTY AND STAFF PROFILES

   Full-Time Faculty

  • T I M   B L A C K  (Academic Advisor)

    Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001)

    Office: ST 534; Tel: (818) 677-7205; E-mail: tim.black@csun.edu

    Interests: Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind.

    Selected Publications: "The Relevant Alternatives Theory and Missed Clues," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2003)"A Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002); "Relevant Alternatives and the Shifting Standards for Knowledge" Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (2002); "Review of O.K. Bouwsma, Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1965-1975," Reason Papers 24 (1999). 

  • A B E L  F R A N C O

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Pittsburg, 2006; University of Salamanca, 1999)

    Office: ST 502; Tel: (818) 677-7501; E-mail: abel.franco@csun.edu

    Interests: History of Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Continental Philosophy.

    Selected Publications: "Avempace, Projectile Motion and Impetus Theory," Journal of the History of Ideas (2003); "Hobbesian Reaction: Towards and Beyond Newton's Third Law of Motion," Teorema (2001); "Duration and Motion in a (Cartesian) World...," Critica (2001); (with P. Machamer) "Review of Biographies of Scientific Objects," Isis (2001); "God and His/Her Act of Creation." Sorites (2001); "The Mathematization of Space Before Galileo," Cuadernos de ALDEEU (1990).

  • R O B E R T  g R E S S I S

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007)

    Office: ST 527; Tel: (818) 677-4854; E-mail: rgressis@gmail.com

    Interests: Kant, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Free Will, and History of Modern Philosophy.

    Selected Publications: "How to Be Evil: Kant's Moral Psychology of Immorality" in Rethinking Kant: Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship (forthcoming); "Recent Work on Maxims" (under review).

  • J A C O B  H A L E

    Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1988)

    Office: ST 506; Tel: (818) 677-3579; E-mail: cjacobhale@sbcglobal.net

    Interests: Interdisciplinary Transgender, Queer & Feminist Studies, and Philosophy of Mathematics.

    Selected Publications: "Consuming the Living, Dis(re)membering the Dead in the Butch/Ftm Borderlands," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4:2 (1998). s "Tracing a Ghostly Memory in My Throat: Reflections on Ftm Feminist Voice and Agency," in Men Doing Feminism, ed. by T. Digby (Routledge, 1998). "Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex without Women or Men" Social Text 52/53, 15:3/4 (1997). "Are Lesbians Women?" Hypatia 11 (1996). "Against Supererogation," American Philosophical Quarterly (1991).

  • F R A N K    M C G U I N N E S S

    Professor (B.A., University of California, Riverside, 1970)

    Office: ST 518; Tel: (818) 677-2752; E-mail: frank.j.mcguinness@csun.edu

    Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Science.

    Selected Publications: (with J. Tomberlin) "Troubles with Actualism," Philosophical Perspectives 8 (1994) s "Thinking-to-Be and Thinking-to-Do," in Hector-Neri Castañeda, ed. by J. Tomberlin (Reidel, 1986) s (with J. Tomberlin) "'Because' and Good Samaritans," Critica 9 (1977) s (with J. Tomberlin) "Good, Evil, and the Free Will Defence," Religious Studies 13 (1977).

  • R O N A L D   M C I N T Y R E 

    Professor (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970)

    Office: ST 532; Tel: (818) 677-2751; E-mail: ronald.mcintyre@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Existentialism.

    Selected Publications: (with D. W. Smith) Husserl and Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language (D. Reidel, 1982) s "Naturalizing Phenomenology? Dretske on Qualia," in Naturalizing Phenomenology: Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, ed. by B. Pachoud et al. (Stanford University Press, 1999) s "Husserl and Frege," Journal of Philosophy 84 (1988) s "Husserl and the Representational Theory of Mind," Topoi 5 (1986) s "Intending and Referring," in Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science, ed. by H. Dreyfus (MIT Press, 1982).

  • B O N N I E    P A L L E R

    Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1982)

    Office: ST 533; Tel: (818) 677-2746; E-mail: bonnie.paller@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Philosophy of Science.

    Selected Publications: "Visual Perception, Observation Systems, and Empiricism," Philosophical Studies 55 (1989) s "Extending Evolutionary Epistemology," in Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology, ed. by K. Hahlweg (SUNY Press, 1989).

  • R I C H A R D    R O D E W A L D 

    Associate Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 1978)

    Office: ST 531; Tel: (818) 677-2749; E-mail: richard.rodewald@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Philosophy & Public Policy.

    Selected Publications: “The Corporate Social Responsibility Debate: Unanswered Questions about the Consequences of Moral Reform,” American Business Law Journal 25 (1987) s "Does Liberalism Rest on a Mistake?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (1985) s “Barry R.  Gross’ Reverse Discrimination and Discrimination in Reverse: Is Turnabout Fair Play?”, The Philosophical Review 40 (1981) s (with R. Wasserstrom) "The Political Philosophy of Arnold S. Kaufman," Social Theory and Practice 2 (1972).

  • C I N D Y    D.  S T E R N

    Associate Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1980)

    Office: ST 508; Tel: (818) 677-4853; E-mail: cindy.stern@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Metaphysics.

    Selected Publications: "The Temporal Priority of Causes: Full Explanation or Full Circle?" Analysis 53 (1993) s "Semantic Emphasis in Causal Sentences," Synthèse 95 (1993) s "On Justification Conditional Models of Linguistic Competence," Mind 99 (1990) s "The Prospects for Elimination of Event-Talk," Philosophical Studies 54 (1988) s "Hume and the Self at a Moment," History of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1987).

  • W E I M I N   S U N

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2003)

    Office: ST 505; Tel: (818) 677-6461; E-mail: weimin.sun@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Biology, and Chinese Philosophy.

    Selected Publication: "Philosophical Developments in Early Chan Buddhism" (under review); "Credence, Chance and the Dutch Book Argument" (under review).

  • A D A M  S W E N S O N

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2006)

    Office: ST 504; Tel: (818) 677-2750; E-mail: adam.swenson@csun.edu

    Interests: Ethics, Axioloy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology.

    Selected Publications: (editor) "Pain for Philosophers" (online, 2006); "Autonomy, Anarchists, and Obligations" (under review).

  • J U L I E  T A N N E N B A U M

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 2002)

    Office: ST 535; Tel: (818) 677-2745; E-mail: julie.tannenbaum@csun.edu

    Interests: Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology, Bioethics, History of Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Action

    Selected Publications: “The ‘Should’ of Full Practical Reason,” Philosophical Books, vol 48 (2), April 2007; “Emotional Expressions of Moral Value,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 132 (1), January 2007; “Acting with Feeling from Duty,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 5 (3), September 2002.

  • G R E G O R Y    V E L A Z C O   Y   T R I A N O S K Y 

    Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980)

    Office: ST 526; Tel: (818) 677-2757; E-mail: gregory.trianosky@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race & Racism.

    Selected Publications: “Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby ’s ‘Blackness and Blood’”, symposia on gender, race and philosophy, 1 (May 2005), no. 1, http://web.mit.edu/sgrp/2005/no1/VelazcoyTrianosky0505.pdf (inaugural online issue) s "Where Do Virtues Get Their Goodness?" Conceptions of Virtue East and West, Chong & Liu (eds) (National U. Of Singapore, 2005); s "Beyond Mestizo Identity: The Future of Race in America,” in New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century, ed. by H. L. deBose and L. I. Winters (Sage Publishing, 2002) s "Supererogation," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by E. Craig (Routledge, 1998) s "Natural Affection and Responsibility for Character: A Critique of Kantian Views of the Virtues," in Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, ed. by O. Flanagan and A. O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990) s "What is Virtue Ethics All About?" American Philosophical Quarterly (1990) s "Supererogation, Wrongdoing, and Vice: On Autonomy of the Ethics of Virtue," Journal of Philosophy 83 (1986). [Curriculum Vitae]

  • T A K A S H I   Y A G I S A W A  – Chair

    Professor (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981)

    Office: ST 530; Tel: (818) 677-2756; E-mail: takashi.yagisawa@csun.edu

    Interests: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Mind.

    Selected Publications: : “Modal Realism with Modal Tense,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2008); “Ghosts are Chilly” (with W.D. Hart), in Persons: Human And Divine, ed. By P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman (Oxford U. Press, 2007); "A New Argument Against the Existence of Requirement," Analysis 65 (2005); "Possible Objects," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005); "Against Creationism in Fiction," Philosophical Perspectives 15 (2001) s "Partee Verbs," Philosophical Studies 103 (2001) s "Salmon Trapping," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997) s "Logic Purified," Noûs 27 (1993) s "Beyond Possible Worlds," Philosophical Studies 53 (1988) s "The Pseudo-Mates Arguments," The Philosophical Review 93 (1984).


Emeritus Faculty

  • N A R A Y A N    C H A M P A W A T

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., UCLA, 1969)
    Office: ST 535; Tel: (818) 677-2745; E-mail: naraysingh@aol.com

  • C H A R L E S    C R I T T E N D E N

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1964)
    Office: ST 535; Tel: (818) 677-2747; E-mail: charles.crittenden@csun.edu

  • WI L L I A M    F O R T H M A N

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., UCLA, 1965); E-mail: william.forthman@csun.edu

  • JA M E S   KE L L E N B E R G

    Professor (Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1967); E-mail: james.kellenberger@csun.edu

  • D O N A L D    S A L T E R  [Home Page]

    Professor Emeritus (M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, 1957); E-mail: dsalter@socal.rr.com

  • D A N I E L    S E D E Y

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969)

  • J E F F R E Y    S I C H A

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Oxford University, 1966)

  • J A M E S   T O M B E R L I N  In Memoriam (1942-2002)

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1972)

  

Part-Time Faculty

Staff

  • Takisha Blacklock  Administrative Support Coordinator

    Office: ST 522; Tel: (818) 677-2757; E-mail: takisha.timmons@csun.edu

  • Donald Lilly  Administrative Services Assistant

    Office: ST 522; Tel: (818) 677-2757; E-mail: donald.w.lilly@csun.edu