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| Title: | Assistant Professor - Philosophy |
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| Email: | eric.stencil@uvu.edu |
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Area of Specialization:
Early Modern Philosophy
Areas of Competence:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethical Theory
Education:
University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. 2012 Philosophy
University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. 2007 Philosophy
Bowling Green State University B.A. 2004 Philosophy and History
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Dissertation:
Cartesian Modality: Possibility and Essence in Descartes and Arnauld
Chair: Steven Nadler; Committee members: Alan Sidelle, Peter Vranas
Publications:
“Malebranche and the General Will of God”
British Journal for the History of Philosophy (19:6) 2011, pp. 1107-1129
Book Reviews:
Review of Noa Naaman-Zauderer, Descartes’ Deontological Turn: Reason, Will, and Virtue in the
Later Writings, Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2011)
Review of Walter Ott, Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy
Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2010)
Selected Presentations:
“Arnauld and the Doctrine of the Creation of the Eternal Truths: (1641-1648)”
Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Dalhousie University, July 2011
South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Texas A&M, November 2010
“Descartes’ Argument for the Creation Doctrine”
Joint Meeting of the Illinois and the Indiana Philosophical Associations
Eastern Illinois University, November 2010
“Arnauld’s Occasionalism”
APA Central Division, February 2010
Illinois Philosophical Association
University of Illinois, October 2009
“Descartes and the Mind-Body Union”
Beloit College, September 2010
“Arnauld’s Actualism”
Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Dalhousie University, August 2009
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
University of Chicago, May 2009
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
University of Memphis, April 2009
“Descartes’ Incompatibility Statement”
Iowa Philosophical Society Meeting
Coe College, October 2007