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Faculty & Stafff Member


Dr. Edward A. Beach

Dr. Geoffrey A. Gorham

Assistant Professor



Office: 609 Hibbard Hall
Telephone: (715) 836-2310 or 2545
E-mail: gorhamga@uwec.edu

Courses | Publications

Fall 2005 Schedule:

  • PHIL 101, Basic Philosophical Issues: MWF 9:00-9:50

  • PHIL 150, Logic I: MWF 10:00-10:50

  • PHIL 335, 17th & 18th Century Philosophy: MW 3:00-4:15

  • OFFICE HOURS: MW 2:00-3:00; F 11-12; or by appt

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Minnesota
  • M.A. in Philosophy, University of Calgary
  • B.A. in Philosophy, Dalhousie University (King's College)

Interests:

  • Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Music, Politics, Street Hockey

Sample Publications:

  • "Cartesian Causation: Continuous, Instantaneous, Overdetermined." Forthcoming, Journal of the History of Philosophy, October, 2004.
  • "Descartes's Dilemma of Eminent Containment." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review Vol. 42:3-25, 2003.
  • "Descartes on the Innateness of All Ideas." Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 32:355-88, 2002.
  • "Causation and Similarity in Descartes." In New Essays on the Rationalists, R. Gennaro and C. Huenemann (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • "Does Scientific Realism Beg the Question?" Informal Logic: A Journal of Theory and Argumentation, Vol. 18: pp. 225-33, 1996.
  • "Similarity as an Intertheory Relation." Philosophy of Science, Vol. 63 (Supplementary Volume): pp. 220-29, 1996.
  • "The Concept of Truth in Feminist Sciences." Hypatia (Special Issue on Analytical Philosophy and Feminism), Vol. 10, pp. 99-116, 1995.
  • "Mind-Body Dualism and the Harvey-Descartes Controversy." Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 55, pp. 211-34, 1994.
  • "Planck's Principle and Jeans's Conversion." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 22, pp. 471-97, 1991.

Recent Teaching Appointments and Affiliations:

  • Visiting Assistant Professor: St. Olaf College, Macalester College, Gustavus Adolphus College
  • Associate Fellow: Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
  • NEH Summer Seminars: Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin




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