E-mail: lnewman@philosophy.utah.edu
Phone (voice-mail): (801) 581-8749
Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
260 S. Central Campus Dr
Orson Spencer Hall, Rm 345
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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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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Office Hours — Summer 2008:
I have no regularly scheduled office hours for the summer, but I would be
happy to meet with you at some mutually agreeable time. Drop me an email
and we can set-up an appointment.
Research
Books
Selected Papers
- "Ideas, Mechanism, and the Directness of Perception, in Descartes and Locke."
(In preparation)
- "Locke's Idea of Mechanism." (In preparation)
- "Locke on Our Knowledge of the External World".
(In preparation)
- "Descartes on the Will",
for the Blackwell Companion to Descartes, ed. John Carriero and Janet Broughton.
(Forthcoming)
- "Locke on
Knowledge", for the Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay.
(Forthcoming)
- "Descartes'
Rationalist Epistemology", for the Blackwell Companion to Rationalism.
(Forthcoming)
- "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:
- 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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