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FACULTY AND STAFF PROFILES

   Full-Time Faculty

  • T I M   B L A C K (Chair)

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

    Office: ST 516; Tel: (818) 677-7205; E-mail: tim.black@csun.edu

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

    Selected Publications: "A Warranted-Assertability Defense of a Moorean Response to Skepticism," Acta Analytica 23 (2008); "Solving the Problem of Easy Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008); "The Distinction Between Coherence and Constancy in Hume's Treatise I.iv.2," The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2007); "A Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002).

  • 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 526; Tel: (818) 677-7202; 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).

  • K R I S T I N A     M E S H E L S K I

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia)

    Office: ST 518 ; Tel: (818) 677-; E-mail: kmeshelski@gmail.com

    Research Interests: Political Philosophy (including issues of race, gender, and sexuality), History of Modern Philosophy

    Selected Publications: "Two Kinds of Definition in Spinoza's Ethics", British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2011).

  • 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).

  • 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

    Associate 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: “Chinese Logic and the Absence of Theoretical Sciences in China” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Dec. 2009; “What Can We Learn from Swampman,” Mind & Computation (心智与计算). Dec., 2008.

  • A D A M  S W E N S O N (Associate Chair)

    Associate 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).

  • 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 520; Tel: (818) 677-6462; E-mail: gregory.trianosky@csun.edu

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

    Selected Publications: “Savages, Wild Men, Monstrous Races: The Social Construction of Race in the Early Modern Era” in Beauty Revisited, Peggy Zeglin Brand, ed. (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2011) “Mestizaje and Hispanic Identity,” in Blackwell Companion Guide To Latin American Philosophy, Otavio Bueno, Susana Nuccetelli, and Ofelia Schutte, eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) “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); "Where Do Virtues Get Their Goodness?" Conceptions of Virtue East and West, Chong & Liu (eds) (National U. Of Singapore, 2005) “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); reprinted in Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus, Lawrence Hinman, ed. (Prentice-Hall, 3rd edition, 2005) "Supererogation," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by E. Craig (Routledge, 1998) “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) “What is Virtue Ethics All About?" American Philosophical Quarterly (1990) “Supererogation, Wrongdoing, and Vice: On Autonomy of the Ethics of Virtue,” Journal of Philosophy 83 (1986).

  • T A K A S H I   Y A G I S A W A 

    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).

  • J U L I E     Y O O

    Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers University)

    Office: ST 514 ; Tel: (818) 677- ; E-mail: julie.yoo@csun.edu

    Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind

    Selected Publications:


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

  • W I 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

  • J A M E S   K E L L E N B E R G E R

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

  • R I C H A R D    R O D E W A L D 

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., UCLA, 1978) E-mail: richard.rodewald@csun.edu

  • R O N A L D   M C I N T Y R E 

    Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970); E-mail: ronald.mcintyre@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)

Part-Time Faculty

Staff

  • Takisha Blacklock  Administrative Support Coordinator

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

  • Nancy Bernstein  Administrative Support Assistant

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