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​Philosophy


Dr. Edmund Dain,

assistant professor of philosophy;

Teaching at PC since 2011
Expertise:
  • Wittgenstein
  • History of Analytic Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophical Foundations of Ethics (Meta-ethics)
Selected Courses Taught:
  • Moral Realism and Its Enemies
  • Greek Thought and Literature
  • Introduction to Epistemology
  • Meaning and Skepticism
  • Early Analytic Philosophy
  • Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
  • Introduction to Symbolic Logic

 

Dr. Laura Landen, Landen.jpg
associate professor of philosophy;

Teaching at PC since 1984
Expertise:
  • Philosophy and Evolution
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
Selected Courses Taught: 
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of the Human Person
  • Philosophy of Mind

 

 

Dr. Timothy A. Mahoney,mahoney.jpg
associate professor of philosophy;

Teaching at PC since 2003
Expertise:
  • Business ethics
  • Plato, and ancient philosophy in general
Selected Courses Taught:
  • Business ethics
  • Advanced seminar in Plato
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Development of Western Civilization

 

 

 

Dr. Vance G. Morgan, professor of philosophy

and director of the Development of Western Civilization Program;

Teaching at PC since 1994morgan.jpg
Expertise:
  • Ethics
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Knowledge
  • Simone Weil
  • History of Philosophy
Selected Courses Taught:
  • General Ethics
  • Current Problems in Ethics
  • Philosophy of Knowledge
  • American Philosophy
  • Development of Western Civilization 
  • Honors Development of Western Civilization

 

 

 
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