University of Nevada Reno

Department of Philosophy

 

Christopher Williams

Associate Professor

ctw@unr.edu

Ph.D. in Philosophy

University of Pittsburgh, 1993

Philosophy Department
Mail Stop 102
University of Nevada Reno
Reno, NV  89557


Phone:  775-784-4287
Fax:  775-327-5024
Campus Office:
Edmund J. Cain Hall  EJCH 108C

Office Hours Fall 2008

MWF 1:00-2:00P and by appointment

 

Received 2008 College of Liberal Arts Dean's Award for Teaching

Interests include aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. He is the author of A Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Hume and Humeanism (Penn State, 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. 

Courses Taught:

Phil 114--Introduction to Symbolic Logic

Phil 202--Introduction to Philosophy of the Arts  

Phil 244--Bioethics

Phil 313--19th Century Philosophy

Phil 407/607--British Empiricists (formerly 413/613)

Phil 450/650--Ethical Theory (formerly Phil 401/601--Morality)

Phil 452/652--Aesthetics (formerly Phil 402/602)

 

Updated: 01/28/2009

 

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University of Nevada, Reno                                                                             

Department of Philosophy

Edmund J. Cain Hall, 108 -- MS 0102

Reno, NV  89557-0102   

Office: 775-784-6846, Fax: 775-327-5024
Maintained by:  philosophy@unr.nevada.edu

Last updated: 03/23/2009

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