Leemon McHenry

Leemon McHenry (Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, Scotland) joined the department as a lecturer in 1997. He taught philosophy at Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University and Wittenberg University. He has held visiting research positions at Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh. His research interests center on metaphysics, philosophy of science and medical ethics.

PUBLICATIONS

 

Papers On-Line

 

Of Sophists and Spin-doctors

 

Ethical Issues in Psychopharmacology

 

The Multiverse Conjecture: Whitehead's Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lectures and Conference Presentations

 

Selling Sickness 2013: People before Profits

Washington, D. C. February 20-22, 2013

Lecture-- Leemon McHenry, "The End of Medical Ghostwriting "

 

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

“The Event Universe: Unification in Modern Physics and the Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead,” July, 2013.

 

Department of Psychiatry, Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, California

“What Litigation Reveals about Drug Industry Behavior,” Grand Rounds Lecture, November 18, 2013.

 

10th International Whitehead Conference, Claremont, California

“The Merits and Demerits of Analytic Critiques of Whitehead's Metaphysics,” June 4-7, 2015. 

 

TEACHING SCHEDULE 2011-2013

 

Spring 2011

Phil 150 Philosophical Thought 8:00-9:15

Phil 330 Philosophy of Science 9:30-10:45

Phil 330 Philosophy of Science 12:30-1:45

 

Fall 2011

Phil 230 Formal Logic 8:00-9:15

Phil 230 Formal Logic 9:30-10:45

Phil 310 Philosophical Problems 2:00-3:15

Spring 2012

Phil 150 Philosophical Thought 9:30

Phil 200 Critical Reasoning 12:30

Phil 201 Ancient Philosophy 2:00

 

Fall 2012

Phil 230 Formal Logic 9:30-10:45

Phil 330 Philosophy of Science 11:00- 12:15

Spring 2013

Phil 200 Critical Reasoning MW 8:00-9:15

Phil 330 Philosophy of Science MW 9:30-10:45

Phil 200 Critical Reasoning MW 12:30-1:45

 

Summer 2013

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Seminar: Whitehead's Metaphysics

 

Fall 2013

Phil 310 Philosophical Problems MW 8:00 - 9:15

Phil 330 Philosophy of Science MW 9:30 - 10:45

Phil 310 Philosophical Problems MW 12:30 - 1:45

 

(Website Last Updated -- May 8,, 2013)