Professor Newman joined the faculty in 2000. He specializes
in early modern philosophy, especially Descartes and Locke. He received
his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Previously, he taught
at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and at University of Pittsburgh.
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E-mail: lnewman@philosophy.utah.edu
Phone (voice-mail): (801) 581-8749
Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
215 Central Campus Dr, #413
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Curriculum Vitae
Note: The poet of the same name is not me (I'm no poet).
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Office Hours — Spring 2009:
I am on leave for the year (sabbatical), and I will not be holding regular office hours.
But I would be happy to meet with any students, whenever I'm around. For regular philosophy
academic advising, Brin Bon (brin.bon@utah.edu) will
be holding two different office hours for the Spring term: Tuesday mornings, 10:00-11:00, and
Wednesday mornings, 10:00-11:00. You may drop by to see her without an appointment, during
these hours. Additionally, if these hours do not fit with your schedule, you may schedule
a meeting at some other time, with either Brin or me.
Research
Books
Selected Papers
- "Did Locke have a Sophisticated Understanding of Scepticism?" (In preparation)
- "Locke's Experiential Idea of Mechanism." (In preparation)
- "Locke on Our Knowledge of the External World".
(In preparation)
- "The Theory of Ideas", in the Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-Century
Philosophy, ed. D. Kaufman. (Forthcoming, 2009)
- "Ideas, Pictures, and the Directness of Perception in Descartes and Locke",
Blackwell's Philosophy Compass 4 (2009)
- "Descartes on the Will",
for the Blackwell Companion to Descartes, ed. J. Carriero and J. Broughton.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)
- "Locke on
Knowledge", for the Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay.
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- "Descartes'
Rationalist Epistemology", for the Blackwell Companion to Rationalism,
ed. A. Nelson.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
- "Descartes'
Epistemology", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward
N. Zalta (substantive update, April 2005; http://plato.stanford.edu).
- "Locke on Sensitive
Knowledge and the Veil of Perception - Four Misconceptions", Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 3 (Sept 2004), 273-300.
- "Rocking the Foundations
of Cartesian Knowledge: Critical Notice of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of
Doubt", Philosophical Review, vol. 113, no. 1 (January 2004), 101-125.
- Review of George Pappas'
Berkeley's Thought (Cornell 2000). Philosophical Review,
vol. 111, no. 2 (April 2003).
- "Unmasking Descartes'
Case for the Bête Machine Doctrine", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
vol. 31, no. 3 (September 2001), 389-426.
- Review of Thomas Vinci's
Cartesian Truth (Oxford 1998), in Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, vol. 62, no. 3 (May 2001), 735-38.
- "Locke on the Idea
of Substratum", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 3
(September 2000), 291-324.
- "The Fourth Meditation",
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 59, no. 3 (September 1999),
559-591.
- "Circumventing Cartesian
Circles" (with Alan Nelson), Noûs, vol. 33, no. 3 (1999), 370-404.
- "Descartes' Epistemology", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
ed. Edward N. Zalta (posted December 3, 1997; http://plato.stanford.edu).
- "Descartes on Unknown Faculties
and Our Knowledge of the External World", Philosophical Review,
vol. 103, no. 3 (July 1994), 489-531.
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Teaching
Courses:
- Fall 2008:
- Spring 2008:
- Fall 2007:
- Spring 2007:
- Fall 2006:
- Spring 2006:
- Fall 2005:
- Spring 2005:
- Fall 2004:
- Phil 3300 — Theory of Knowledge
(course web)
- Phil 7130 — Graduate Seminar on David Hume
Technology Projects:
Reasoning Tutor is a series of computer delivered reasoning exercises
enabling students to learn, and be tested, on basic reasoning concepts
outside of the classroom — either online, or using a CD-ROM.
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