Stephan Blatti, Adjunct Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	347 Trent Hall
Office Phone:	919-684-0352
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1741/

Specialties:

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind

Research Interests:

Stephan Blatti (D.Phil 2008, University of Oxford) joined the department in 2006 as Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Managing Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. While his principal area of research is metaphysics, he is also interested in various topics in philosophy of mind/psychology, early modern philosophy, bioethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of biology.

This fall, he will take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.

Curriculum Vitae

Papers:

• "Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases", Philosophical Psychology 20 (2007): 595-608.
• "No Impediment to Solidity as Impediment", Metaphysica 7 (2006): 35-41.
  
• "Animalism Unburdened" (under review, comments welcome).

Reviews and Reference Articles:

• Review of Raymond Martin and John Barresi, The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity, Mind 117 (2008): 191-95.
  
• Review of David DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge 2006), Philosophy (in preparation).
  
• "Animalism and Personal Identity", Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, eds. M. Bekoff and J. Nystrom (Greenwood Press, 2007), vol. 1: 430-33.
  
• "Animalism", The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, eds. A. C. Grayling, A. Pyle, and N. Goulder (Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), vol. 1: 108-09.
• "Disjunctivism", The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, eds. A. C. Grayling, A. Pyle, and N. Goulder (Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), vol. 2: 856-57.

Teaching (Spring 2008):

• Phil 101: History of Modern Philosophy
  
• 211 Languages Building
  
• Tues & Thur, 10:05 - 11:20am

Teaching (Summer 2008, Term 1):

• Phil 43S.01: Introduction to Philosophy
  
• 107 Social Sciences Building
  
• Monday through Friday, 9:30 - 10:45am