REBECCA COPENHAVER | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. --Wilfred Sellars, Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man |
| Teaching and Research |
Office: Howard 231 My research interests are in Early Modern Philosophy, Reid, and Philosophy of Mind, in particular, perception. I have articles in Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, Reid Studies and the Proceedings of the Ninth International Kant Congress. In teaching I engage the traditional liberal arts, in which broad and deep intellectual engagement is regarded as a good in and of itself independent of its practical uses. I encourage people to love the power of their minds. The mind, like the body, must be exercised and exercised through work. Philosophy is the most extreme of extreme sports. It allows us to expand our sphere of concern and focus less on our own narrow subjectivites. I am currently working on a series of articles on Thomas Reid's philosophy of mind, with the hopes of revising and collecting them for a book length manuscript. I am also working on a book, with Brian P. Copenhaver: From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, ‘The Lorenzo da Ponte Library’ (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). For more information, please see: http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/brian/research/unfinished/unfinished_books/kant_to_croce.htm For fun, I like to do philosophy...and read non-fiction, and taste wine with my husband, Greg Bauer, who is a winemaker. Rebecca Copenhaver |