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David Detmer
Professor of Philosophy |
Areas of Specialization:
Ethics
Existentialism
Phenomenology
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Courses Taught:
PHIL 106: Human Experience in Art, Literature, Music &
Philosophy
PHIL 110: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 111: Ethics
PHIL 120: Critical Thinking
PHIL 219: Existentialism
PHIL 221: Philosophy of Science
Plus a wide variety of upper-level courses
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Biography:
David Detmer is the author of three books, Freedom as a Value
(1988), Challenging Postmodernism (2003), and Sartre
Explained (forthcoming, 2007), as well as numerous articles
and book chapters, on such topics as Sartre, vegetarianism, the
Beatles, Rorty, the death penalty, Baudrillard, Woody Allen, the
U.S, mass media, Habermas, Husserl, U.S. foreign policy, modern
art, existentialism, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and
virtue-based epistemology.
Education:
B.A. in Philosophy, Boston University
M.A. in Philosophy, Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Northwestern University
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