Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 2001, M.A. 1998 Cornell University

B.A. 1993 University of California at Santa Cruz

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Teaching and Research

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 this site.

• Current and Recent Research

For fun, I like to do philosophy…and read non-fiction, and taste wine with my husband, Greg Bauer, who is a winemaker.

Courses

I regularly teach in the core education first-year course Exploration & Discovery.

In the philosophy department, I teach introductory level courses, such as Introduction to Philosophy. I also teach upper division courses designed for majors, specifically, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language.

All courses are on the Lewis & Clark College Moodle page.  If you would like guest acces in order to find out more about the courses feel free to email me: rebeccac@lclark.edu