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David Forman Assistant Professor Ph.D., The University of Chicago (2005) University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Philosophy 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 455028 Las Vegas, NV 89154-5028 (702) 895-3624 Office Phone (702) 895-3433 Department Phone (702) 895-1279 Department Fax |
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Office Hours Spring 2008: Tues 12:50-1:30; Thursday 2-3; and by appointment Current/Upcoming Courses Spring 2008: Ethical Theory (PHIL 450); Health Care Ethics (EPS 739) Fall 2008: 19th Century Philosophy (PHIL 404); Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 135) Spring 2009: Modern Philosophy (PHIL 403); Ethics for Scientists and Engineers (PHIL 242) other past courses: Kant [Critique of Pure Reason]; Kant's Moral Philosophy; Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities [modern
philosophy and literature]; Reasoning and Critical Thinking;
See UNLV's WebCampus and the Library's E-Reserves for course materials. |
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| Publications: "Autonomy as 'Second Nature': On McDowell's Aristotelian Naturalism." Forthcoming in Inquiry. [preprint  ]"Free Will and the Freedom of the Sage in Leibniz and the Stoics." Forthcoming in The History of Philosophy Quarterly. [preprint ]Review of Ermanno Bencivenga, Ethics Vindicated: Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse. In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 19, 2007. URL: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10163. [local copy] [preprint ]"Learning and the Necessity of Non-Conceptual Content in Sellars' 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.'" In M.P. Wolf and M.N. Lance (eds.), The Self-Correcting Enterprise: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars (Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 92), pp. 115-145. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi 2006. [online] [preprint ] |
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Recent/Upcoming Appearances: “Appetimus sub ratione boni: The Leibnizian Roots of Kant's Account of Free Choice.” Pacific Northwest-Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. March 2, 2008. [program] "Le franc arbitre et le serf arbitre sont une même chose: Leibniz on Freedom as Knowledge and Sin as Ignorance." South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Nov. 17, 2007. [program] |
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Wolff's Proof of the Existence of God |
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