University of Nevada, Las Vegas  





Department of Philosophy





David Forman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Chicago (August 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





Office Hours
Spring 2009: Tues 2:30-3:30; Thursday 11:20-12:00; and by appointment

Current/Upcoming Courses
Spring 2009: Early Modern Philosophy (PHIL 403); Ethics for Scientists and Engineers (PHIL 242)
Fall 2009: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (PHIL 415)
other past courses: Reasoning and Critical Thinking (PHIL 102); Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 135);
Ethical Theory (PHIL 450); 19th Century Philosophy (PHIL 404); Health Care Ethics (EPS 739)

See UNLV's WebCampus and the Library's E-Reserves for course materials.

For help with writing or revising papers, visit UNLV's Writing Center.




Publications:
"Autonomy as 'Second Nature': On McDowell's Aristotelian Naturalism."  Inquiry, 51(6), pp. 563-580. Dec. 2008.  [online] [preprint PDF icon]

"Free Will and the Freedom of the Sage in Leibniz and the Stoics." The History of Philosophy Quarterly, 25(3), pp. 203-219.  July 2008. [preprint PDF icon]

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 PDF icon]

"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 PDF icon]






Recent/Upcoming Appearances:
APA 2009 Pacific Division Meeting, (Friday April 10, 11am) [program] [abstract]









Other:


Christian Wolff's Proof of the Existence of God