Christopher Williams

Associate Professor

Acting Chair and Graduate Program Coordinator
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1993.
Edmund J. Cain Hall (EJCH) 108C.

Phone: 775/784-4287
Fax: 775/327-5024
E-mail: ctw@unr.edu

Spring 2013 Office Hours: TBA

Specializations
Aesthetics; ethics; philosophy of mind; Hume.

Research
Professor Williams is the author of A Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Hume and Humeanism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), and of articles in journals. He has been a Fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. His recent work has been concerned with imagination and with taste.

Teaching

Phil 114--Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Phil 202--Introduction to Philosophy of the Arts
Phil 244--Bioethics
Phil 313--19th Century Philosophy
Phil 317--History of Ethical Theory
Phil 407/607--British Empiricists: Hume
Phil 417/617--Nietzsche
Phil 450/650--Ethical Theory
Phil 452/652--Aesthetics


Winner of the 2008 College of Liberal Arts Dean's Award for Teaching