Web for Jill Buroker – E-mail Jill Buroker – Phone: 909-537-5875
Professor Buroker’s areas of specialization are Kant, Descartes, seventeenth and eighteenth-century logic and history of science, and the theory of knowledge. She has written Space and Incongruence: the Origin of Kant’s Idealism (D. Reidel, 1981) and translated Logic or the Art of Thinking: the Port-Royal Logic (Cambridge, 1996). Her student guide to the Critique of Pure Reason was published by Cambridge University in 2006 as Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Introduction. During research leaves in France in 1986 and 1990, she gave talks at the Université de Lyon and the Sorbonne, as well as at the University College, Cork, Ireland. She has presented numerous papers at conferences and at universities in the U.S. and Canada. She reviews books for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Dialogue, Kantian Review, Philosophical Books, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Professor Buroker’s regular upper-division course offerings include Phil 313: History of Modern Philosophy; Phil 367: Philosophy and Sexual Politics; Phil 410: The British Empiricists, Kant, Hume; and Phil 490: Personal Identity. She also teaches HUM 306, the upper-division writing class.
Web for Matthew Davidson – E-mail Matthew Davidson – Phone: 909-537-7727
Professor Davidson’s areas of specialization include philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and the history of modern philosophy. His publications include “Presentism and the Non-Present,” Philosophical Studies (2003); “Direct Reference and Singular Propositions,” American Philosophical Quarterly (2000); “A Demonstration Against Theistic Activism,” Religious Studies (1999); a critical notice of Ted Sider’s Four Dimensionalism, Philosophical Books (forthcoming, 2003); and an article on “Necessary Being” forthcoming in the Internet Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In addition, Prof. Davidson edited and introduced the collection of essays by Alvin Plantinga, Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality (Oxford University Press, 2003), is editing with others, Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga on his 70th Birthday (Kluwer, 2003), and is working on an anthology, On Sense and Direct Reference, in philosophy of language. An ongoing project is his book, Semantics: A Fregean Approach, currently under review at Oxford University Press. His current work includes issues in religious epistemology, material constitution and identity through time, the nature of abstract objects, and the mechanisms of reference, of proper names and indexical expressions.
Professor Davidson’s upper-division teaching includes Phil 372: Philosophy of Religion; Phil. 380: Metaphysics; Phil 385: Theory of Knowledge and Phil 387: Philosophy of Language.
Web for Susan Finsen – E-mail Susan Finsen – Phone: 909-537-5871
Professor Finsen has published articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, applied ethics and experimental psychology. She is currently working on ethical issues relating to human relationships with animals. She has published articles in this area in various journals and has co-authored The Animal Rights Movement in America (Twayne, 1994). Prof. Finsen also has long-term interests in critical thinking pedagogy. She has received a grant to form a Critical Thinking Institute on campus. The Institute established by Professor Finsen, along with other members of the CSUSB faculty, studies improved methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking.
Professor Finsen teaches Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics in the Helping Professions, Introduction to Philosophy and a Humanities Capstone Course, Interpretations and Values. Prof. Finsen is an animal rights activist and director of Californians for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. She rescues farm animals with a particular focus on homeless and abused pigs.
Web for Beverly Gallo – E-mail Beverly Gallo – Phone: 909-537-5873
Professor Gallo’s areas of specialization include the history of philosophy, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, especially Existentialism, Sartre, and Nietzsche. She has delivered several papers at national conferences and at universities in the U.S. and has published “On the Question of Nietzsche’s ‘Scientism,’” International Studies in Philosophy, XXII, 2 (1990).
Professor Gallo’s regular upper-division course offerings have included Phil 317: Ancient Philosophy; Phil 325: Philosophy and the arts; Phil 355: Contemporary Ethical Issues; and Phil 410: Existentialism.
Web for Thomas Moody – E-mail Thomas Moody – Phone: 909-537-5874
Professor Moody’s area of specialization is political philosophy. His published work has been on feminism, anarchism, and communitarianism, and his work has been anthologized. He has co-edited Alienation (Humanities Press International, 1994). He has presented papers at national and international conferences as well as at universities in the U.S. He has done sustained work on Locke and 17th Century English political thought, and Rousseau. He is currently working on international ethics and political theory, primarily on the possibilities of democratization in the international arena, as well as issues of international criminal justice, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and the viability of traditional notions of sovereignty in an age of globalization,
Professor Moody regularly offers Phil 319: History of Modern Political Theory; Phil 320: Philosophy of Education; Phil 364: Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity; and Phil 361: Social and Political Philosophy. He has recently taught upper-division seminars on Locke’s political theory and on international justice. He occasionally teaches Humanities 344: Ideas in American Culture, an upper-division large lecture general education capstone course. He hopes to introduce and teach a new course on International Ethics and Political Theory.
E-mail Chris Naticchia – Phone: 909-537-7583
Professor Naticchia specializes in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His research focuses on domestic and international justice and human rights. His latest publications include: “The Law of Peoples: The Old and the New,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 2, no. 3 (November 2005) [special issue on Global Justice]; reprinted in Thom Brooks and Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), The Legacy of John Rawls (London and New York: Continuum, July 2005); “Recognizing States and Governments,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35, no. 1 (March 2005); “Explanatory Unification and the Demystification of Ethics,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 42, no. 2 (2004), 237-259; and “Recognition and Legitimacy: A Reply to Buchanan,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 28, no. 3 (Summer 1999), 242-257. He is also co-secretary of the Law and Philosophy Discussion Group of Southern California.
Professor Naticchia regularly teaches courses in moral, political and legal philosophy, including Phil 350: Ethics; Phil 355: Contemporary Ethical Issues; Phil 361: Social and Political Philosophy; and Phil 362: Philosophy of Law.
Web for Darcy Otto – E-mail Darcy Otto – Phone: 909-537-5934
The Department is pleased to announce that Darcy Otto will join us in Fall, 2004. Professor Otto’s interests include ancient philosophy and logic, with a dissertation on regress arguments in Plato’s Parmenides. He has published, “Solving the Second Horn of the Dilemma of Participation” Aperion (2003). He has teaching awards from McMaster University, and created PCLogic, a computer proof-verification program for formal logic. For further information on PCLogic, see www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~ottod/pclogic.
Prof. Otto’s upper-division teaching includes Phil 311: Ancient Philosophy, Phil 312 Medieval Philosophy, Phil 410: Advanced issues in History of Philosophy, along with courses in logic, including Phil 300, Predicate Logic.
Web for Tony Roy – E-mail Tony Roy – Phone: 909-537-5870
Professor Roy’s interests include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of religion. His research interests concern problems associated with the nature of properties, possibilities and possible worlds. Publications include “Worlds and Modality,” The Philosophical Review, 102 (1993); “In Defense of Linguistic Ersatzism” Philosophical Studies, 80 (1995), and “Things and De Re Modality” Nous, 34 (2000). A recent publication is “Natural Derivations for Priest, An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic“ available in the online AJL. He is also working on textbooks for metaphysics and logic.
Professor Roy’s upper-division teaching includes Phil 300: Predicate Logic; Phil 400: Advanced Issues in Logic; Phil 380: Metaphysics; Phil 387: Philosophy of Language; Phil 475: Advanced issues in Metaphysics and Language; and Phil 372: Philosophy of Religion.
Sessional lecturers play an important (and large) role in the functioning of the philosophy department. Currently, Winter, 2010, part-time faculty include:
Fidel Arnecillo – Web for Fidel Arnecillo – E-mail Fidel Arnecillo – Phone: 909-537-7796
David Garcia – Web for David Garcia – E-mail David Garcia – Phone: 909-537-7466
Lou Reich – Web for Lou Reich – E-mail Lou Reich – Phone: 909-537-7475
