Faculty members

Regular and Sessional Faculty

Name	Area	Contact
Dr. Allison Barnes Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Philosophy of Mind	Office: CLE B309 abarnes@uvic.ca (250) 853-3767
Dr. Nina Belmonte Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Film	Office: CLE B326 belmonte@uvic.ca (250) 721-7518
Dr. Karen Brown Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Linguistic Semantics	Office: CLE B314 klbrown@uvic.ca (250) 472-5560
Dr. Margaret Anne Cameron Associate Dean Research - Humanities Philosophy	Aristotle, Philosophy of Logic and Language, History of Logic and Philosophy of Language	Office: CLE C306 margaret@uvic.ca (250) 721-7259
Dr. Chris Goto-Jones Dean of Humanities; Professor Philosophy	Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of mind/body.	Office: CLE C305 chrisgotojones@uvic.ca 250-472-4677
Dr. Thomas Heyd Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Aesthetics, Ethics, History of Philosophy with special interests in Environmental Aesthetics and Ethics, Philosophy of Prehistoric and Contemporary Art, Early Modern Philosophy	Office: CLE B309 heydt@uvic.ca (250) 853-3767 website
Dr. Eric Hochstein Assistant professor Philosophy	History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Social Epistemology, Metaphysics	Office: B330 ehochstein@uvic.ca (250) 721-7513 website
Dr. Cindy Holder Associate Professor Philosophy	Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory (Normative Theory), History of Moral and Social Thought, Feminist Philosophy, Ethical Theory (Metaethics).	Office: CLE B322 clholder@uvic.ca (250) 721-7516 website
Klaus Jahn Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and post-Kantian 19th C Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics and Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy.	Office: CLE B331 kjahn@uvic.ca (250) 853-3825
Dr. Carrie Klatt Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	Philosophy of Science (Physics, Mathematics) Spacetime and Quantum Theory, Philosophy of Education	Office: CLE B311 cklatt@uvic.ca (250) 853-3766
Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge Professor Philosophy	Biomedical and Information Ethics, Topics in the History of Philosophy	Office: CLE B313 ekluge@uvic.ca (250) 721-7519
Dr. Thomas Land Assistant Professor Philosophy	Kant, German Idealism, Early Modern, Analytic Kantianism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory.	Office: CLE B326 tland@uvic.ca (250)721-7518
Dr. Colin Macleod Professor; Department Chair - on leave July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019 Philosophy	Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law	Office: CLE B328 cmacleod@uvic.ca (250) 721-7521 website
Dr. Michael Raven Associate Professor Philosophy	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language/Mind, Epistemology	Office: CLE B323 mike@raven.site (250) 721-7514 website
Dr. Clifford Roberts Assistant Professor Philosophy	Ancient Philosophy	Office: CLE B318 cliffordroberts@uvic.ca (250) 721-7221
Dr. Patrick Rysiew Professor Philosophy	Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science	Office: CLE B321 rysiew@uvic.ca (250) 721-7520 website
Dr. David Scott Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Philosophy	Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics	Office: CLE B320 djfscott@uvic.ca (250) 721-7517
Dr. Scott Woodcock Associate Professor; Acting Chair July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019; Applied Ethics Minor Coordinator Philosophy	Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology	Office: CLE B316 philchr@uvic.ca (250) 472-4462 website
Dr. Audrey Yap Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor Philosophy	Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Logic (esp. 19th and 20th century), Feminist Epistemology	Office: CLE B307 ayap@uvic.ca (250) 721-7510 website
Dr. James O. Young, FRSC Professor - on leave July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019 Philosophy	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Art (esp. Philosophy of Music)	Office: CLE B324 joy@uvic.ca (250) 721-7509

UVic Philosophy

2 weeks ago

Colloquium Friday! Friday, November 30th at 2:30pm CLE A303 Title: Discrimination, Emotion, and Health Inequities Speaker: Dr. Carina Fourie, University of Washington Abstract: In this paper, I turn critical philosophical attention to a primary topic of public health research – the social determinants of health – connecting public health literature with theories of injustice. I critically assess a model of discrimination as a social determinant of health, arguing that the implications of this model can reinforce inequities, and I demonstrate how this criticism should help inform theories of health equity. In the first section of the paper, I identify the discrimination-emotion-health model and its implications. This model details the way in which discrimination can affect emotions and in turn health. Racial discrimination, for example, functions not only to skew access to resources such as healthcare and opportunities for healthy living, it also creates stress and negative emotional states such as psychological distress which can in and of themselves be manifestations of ill-health, e.g. in the form of psychological ill-health, or they can increase the risk of physiological disease and impairment, or both. The discrimination-emotion-health model appears to underlie much public health literature on discrimination as a psychosocial determinant of health but is not made explicit. In the second section I argue that an appreciation of the political dimensions of emotions, indicates that the model can have problematic implications, for example, reinforcing gender, class and racial stereotypes. I will provide a critique of the model focusing on six categories of concern: reinforcement, agency, respectability, dissidence, fragility of privilege and object of emotions. In the final section, I will demonstrate how this critique helps us to develop the features required of a theory of health equity in order for such a theory to best represent discrimination as a psychosocial determinant of health. I highlight six implications of the critique for theories of health equity, including the recognition that health policies have expressive value, and that oppressive systems can damage the privileged, as well as the oppressed. Thinking about the model and its critique according to such a theory will provide health policy-makers and practitioners with a nuanced way of thinking about the role of emotions in health disparities. In turn, this can help with the development of suitable policies and guidance for reducing health inequities.

UVic Philosophy

3 weeks ago

Colloquium Friday! Date: Friday, November 23rd at 2:30PM in CLE A303 Speaker: Dr. Thomas Land (UVic) Title: Epistemic Agency and the Self-Knowledge of Reason: On the Contemporary Relevance of Kant’s Method of Faculty Analysis Abstract: Each of Kant’s three Critiques offers an account of the nature of a mental faculty and arrives at this account by means of a procedure I call Faculty Analysis. Faculty Analysis is often regarded as among the least defensible aspects of Kant’s position; as a consequence, philosophers seeking to inherit Kantian ideas tend to transpose them into a different methodological context. I argue that this is a mistake: in fact Faculty Analysis is a live option for philosophical inquiry today. My argument is as follows: Faculty Analysis is a live option for certain kinds of philosophical theories if so-called “agentialist” views about the nature of belief are correct. There are good reasons for thinking that such views are correct. So Faculty Analysis should not be dismissed out of hand. Since the first premise in this argument bears a lot of weight, a large part of the paper is devoted to clarifying and defending it, in part by arguing that Kant himself holds a version of agentialism about belief.

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