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Core Faculty Norton Batkin (chair)Daniel Berthold William James Griffith Garry L. Hagberg Robert L. Martin David Shein Kritika Yegnashankaran Affiliated Faculty Thomas BartschererRoger Berkowitz James Brudvig Ariana Stokas Alan Sussman Visiting Faculty Olivia CusterBruce Matthews Stephen Melville Ruth Zisman Core Faculty
Norton Batkin (chair)
Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History Professor Batkin has taught on the theory and criticism of the visual arts; politics, the arts, and democratic culture; and concepts of the museum and exhibition. Contact information: batkin@bard.edu. Phone: 758-7895. Reem Kayden 202.
Daniel Berthold
Professor of Philosophy B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Specialization in continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, existentialism, phenomenology), Freud, and applied ethics (bioethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics). Author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought and History; Hegel’s Theory of Madness; and The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard. Articles and reviews in journals including Clio, Environmental Ethics, History and Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Idealistic Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Ludus Vitalis, Man and World, Metaphilosophy, Modern Language Notes, Noûs, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Religious Studies, The Review of Metaphysics, Social Theory and Practice, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Contributor to The Dictionary of Existentialism. Editorial board, Topoi Library. Academic advisory board member, McGraw-Hill Philosophy Web Resources. Advisory council, The Hastings Center Program in Ethics, Science, and the Environment. (1984– ) Professor of Philosophy. Professor Berthold teaches courses in continental philosophy, applied ethics, Freud, feminist philosophy, the philosophy of religion, critical reasoning, and a multicultural introduction to philosophy. Contact information: berthold@bard.edu. For more information download this file: Daniel Berthold photo 2.jpg
William James Griffith
Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Philosophy Program A.B., cum laude, Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. NDEA Fellow. (1968– ) Professor of Philosophy. Professor Griffith teaches courses in logic, ethics, the philosophy of law, economic justice, Plato, William James, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Contact information: Griffith@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7208 (spring). Aspinwall 101 (spring).
Garry L. Hagberg
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy B.A. (music, philosophy, psychology), M.A., Ph.D. (philosophy), University of Oregon. Visiting graduate studies, Oxford University; postdoctoral research, Cambridge University. Fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities; Dartmouth College (in both music and literature); Cambridge University (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and the Humanities); Institute for the Theory and Criticism of the Visual Arts; British Museum and Library, London; Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Washington, D.C.; and many others. Author of Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2008); Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory (Cornell University Press, 1995); Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge (Cornell, 1994); editor of Art and Ethical Criticism (Blackwell, 2008); co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Blackwell, 2009). Author of about 50 articles and 35 reviews, review-essays, and art catalogue essays, with contributions to philosophical journals such as Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophical Quarterly; specialized journals such as The British Journal of Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Philosophy and Literature, and Ethics; journals in the Wittgensteinian tradition such as Philosophical Investigations and Wittgenstein-Studien; literary journals such as New Literary History, Poetics Today, The Henry James Review, and The New Novel Review; reference works such as The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Encyclopedia of the Essay, The Encyclopedia of Life-Writing, and The Blackwell Companion to Art Theory; and numerous edited collections. He has delivered invited philosophical papers and talks at conferences and colloquia around the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and Russia; serves (since 2002) as joint Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature (based at Bard); serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and has served the American Society for Aesthetics as National Program Chair, Trustee, guest-editor of its journal (for a special issue on Improvisation in the Arts), and many other offices; serves on the executive committee of The British Society for Aesthetics, Oxford; and has served on numerous doctoral committees (Columbia University, McGill University, Tel Aviv University, others) and supervised masters and doctoral students at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, where he held a Chair (while on leave from Bard) in the School of Philosophy 2006-2009. Forthcoming work includes pieces for The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, an edited volume Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, and the edited volume Philosophy as Therapeia from the Royal Institute of Philosophy; work-in-progress includes the co-authored volume Wittgenstein on Music, and a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility, Living in Words: Literature, Language, and the Constitution of Selfhood. (1990– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics. Professor Hagberg teaches specialized courses on the philosophy of the arts and the history of aesthetic thought; the philosophy of language since 1900; pragmatism; and the development of twentieth-century philosophy, in addition to courses on issues and authors from Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Contact information: Hagberg@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7208 (fall), 7270 (spring).
Robert L. Martin
Professor of Philosophy and Music Robert Martin studied philosophy at Haverford College (B.A., 1961) and Yale University (Ph.D. 1965). He taught in the philosophy departments of the University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University (where he was tenured in 1969), University of California (Irvine and Los Angeles campuses), and at Bard College since 1994. His research areas are philosophy of language and philosophy of music. His philosophy publications include two books which he edited and to which he contributed: Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, Oxford University Press, 1984, and The Paradox of the Liar, Yale University Press, 1970. He published twenty-four articles, chapters and reviews, ranging from "Toward a Solution to the Liar Paradox," in The Philosophical Review 76 in 1967 to "Ontology of Music" in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press) in 1998 and a review of Inside Beethoven’s Quartets, by Lewis Lockwood and the Juilliard String Quartet (Harvard Press, 2008) published in Chamber Music in 2008. At UCLA, Martin co-authored (with David Kaplan) logic software (Logic: A Workbook) for the Kalish-Montague natural deduction system; a web-based version of that software has since been written and is used in Martin’s Symbolic Logic course at Bard. (1994– ) Professor of Philosophy and Music. Professor Martin teaches courses in logic, the philosophy of music, and analytic philosophy. Contact information: martin@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7419. Avery N130.
David Shein
Assistant Dean of the College & Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Assistant Professor of Philosophy B.A., State University of New York at Oswego; M.Phil., Graduate Center, City University of New York; Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY. Has taught at Lehman College. Areas of interest: realism and antirealism, relativism, metaphysics, and epistemology. Developed Bard’s Academic Services Center and Disability Services. Numerous presentations at professional conferences. Assistant Dean of the College and Associate Dean of Student Affairs (2005– ). Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Professor Shein teaches courses on the philosophy of science, political philosophy, skepticism, and relativism. Contact information: shein@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7045. Ludlow 105.
Kritika Yegnashankaran
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Professor Yegnashankaran teaches courses in the philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of biology, and philosophy of science. Contact information: kyegnash@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7393. Aspinwall 106. Affiliated Faculty
Thomas Bartscherer
Assistant Professor of Humanities in Literature and Classics; Director, Language and Thinking Program Thomas Bartscherer has studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. English & Comparative Literature) and the University of Chicago (M.A., PhD candidate, Committee on Social Thought) and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of Heidelberg, and the LMU in Munich. Areas of specialization include aesthetics and moral psychology, Plato, Nietzsche, and philosophical approaches to tragedy. Areas of competence include ancient Greek and 19th century German philosophy, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of education. Bartscherer is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press) with Shadi Bartsch and Switching Codes (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) with Roderick Coover. He has published and lectured in both American and European venues on a wide range of topics in philosophy, literature, and contemporary culture. He has received fellowships from the DAAD, and the Woodrow Wilson, Nef, and Earhart foundations and is currently a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Paris. Bartscherer has taught previously at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Assistant Professor of Humanities in Literature and Classics; Director, Language and Thinking Program. Professor Bartscherer has recently taught courses on Socrates and on Euripides & Nietzsche. Contact information: bart@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7142. Kappa House 107.
Roger Berkowitz
Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley; J.D., University of California-Berkeley. Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking here at Bard College. His essays have appeared in The Journal of Politics, Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities, New Nietzsche Studies, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Rechtshistorisches Journal, The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, The Cardozo Law Review, Rechtsgeschichte, and many other publications. (2005– ) Associate Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights.
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James Brudvig
Vice President for Administration Professor Brudvig teaches a course on informal logic. Vice President for Administration. Contact information: brudvig@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7429. Ludlow first floor.
Ariana Stokas
Director of Bard Education Opportunity Programs and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy B.A. (philosophy of art), Bard College; Ph.D. in Philosophy and Education, Columbia University. Areas of specialization include philosophy of education, pragmatism, aesthetics and ethics. Research interests include the nature of sensitive perception and its role in teaching and learning, embodiment and epistemology and how art informs educational practice. Ariana has served as an advisory board member on Learning Through the Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, and she has been affiliated with the Global Action Project, and the Harlem School of the Arts. Honors include the Maxine Greene Fellowship and a Spencer Research Fellowship. She has taught aesthetics at Columbia University Teachers College to aspiring teachers. (2010– ) Director of Opportunity Programs, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Contact information: stokas@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7492. North Hoffman 92. Phone: 845-758-7492 E-mail: stokas@bard.edu
Alan Sussman
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy B.A.,M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., L.L.M., New York University School of Law. Lawyer in private practice, specializing in civil rights. Coauthor, The Rights of Parents and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Legislation. Author, The Rights of Young People. Other publications include articles in New York University Law Review, Criminal Law Bulletin, Family Law Quarterly, Seton Hall Law Review, Politics & Culture, and others. (1999– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy. Professor Sussman teaches courses in the philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. Contact information: alansussman@hotmail.com. Phone ext. 7270 (fall). Aspinwall 111 (fall). Visiting Faculty
Olivia Custer
Visiting Assistant Professor of the Humanities and Philosophy B.A., Harvard College; Doctorat d’Université, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (thesis supervised by Jacques Derrida). Has written and lectured extensively on Derrida, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault. Codirector, International Symposium for Research in Phenomenology, Perugia, Italy (2002–04). Coeditor, L’ex-Yougoslavie en Europe: de la faillite des démocraties au processus de paix (L’Harmattan, 1997). Has taught at University of California Study Center, Paris; American University of Paris; Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. (2007– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of the Humanities and Philosophy. Contact information: custer@bard.edu. McCarthy House.
Bruce Matthews
Professor of Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan. Bruce Matthews has studied at the University of Virginia (B.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies), Yale Divinity School (M.A.R. Philosophical Theology), the New School University (PhD. Philosophy). His research uses the work of F.W.J. Schelling as a foil for exploring the broader theme of the History of Ideas. Areas of interest include Ancient Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (German Idealism and Romanticism, Nietzsche, Neo-Structuralism), American Pragmatism, and the relationship between Philosophy and Religion. He is a founding faculty member of Bard High School Early College, Manhattan, and has been a Visiting Professor at Tübingen University (2004) and Freiburg University (2011). He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including The Hans Jonas award, two Fulbright Senior Scholar awards, two University of Chicago Teaching awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. His books include F.W.J. Schelling’s Berlin Lectures: the Grounding of Positive Philosophy (SUNY 2007); Schelling’s Organic Form of Philosophy: Life as the Schema of Freedom (SUNY 2011), and the forthcoming Schelling: Heretic of Modernity (SUNY 2012); other of his publications have appeared in edited anthologies as well as the Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus and the Proceedings of the Society of Intercultural Philosophy. He has delivered invited philosophical papers and talks at conferences and colloquia around the United States, Europe, India and Turkey; and he is reviewer for SUNY Press and Journal of the History of Philosophy. Research interests include German Idealism and Romanticism, Philosophical Theology, and the History of Philosophy. Founding member of the Schelling Society of North America, he is also a member of the International Schelling Society, the American Philosophical Association, and the Society of Intercultural Philosophy. (Spring 2012) BHSEC Faculty Fellow
Stephen Melville
Visiting Professor of Philosophy BA with special and general honors, History and Philosophy of Religion, University of Chicago, 1971; PhD, Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, University of Chicago, 1981. Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College, English and Humanities, 1981-82; Assistant and Associate Professor, English Department, Syracuse University, 1982-1991; Associate and Full Professor, Department of the History of Art, The Ohio State University, 1991-2009. Visiting Professorships at Bryn Mawr College (1989), University of Essex (2002), University of Warsaw (2003), Johns Hopkins University (2005). Author of Philosophy beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 1986); Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context (Gordon & Breach, 1996); As Painting:Division and Displacement, with Philip Armstrong and Laura Lisbon (MIT Press, 2001); Writing Art History:Disciplinary Departures, with Margaret Iversen (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Editor of Vision and Textuality, with Bill Readings (The Macmillan Press, 1995); La Part de l'oeil 17/18 "Peinture pratique théorique," with Philip Armstrong and Laura Lisbon (2001); Res 46, "Polemical Objects," with Philip Armstrong and Erika Naginski (2004); The Lure of the Object (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, 2005). He has published and lectured widely on a variety of topics in art, art history, and philosophy.(2011– ) Visiting Professor of Philosophy. Professor Melville works primarily between continental philosophy and questions of disciplinary knowledge, particularly as they arise in art history and in contemporary art. He is particularly interested in the lines of thought that run from Hegel through Heidegger to Derrida and also takes a strong interest in the work of Stanley Cavell. Contact information: Phone ext. 7280. Aspinwall 109.
Ruth Zisman
Visiting Instructor of Humanities and Faculty Advisor to the Debate Team. Professor Zisman teaches courses in continental philosophy and political philosophy. Contact information: zisman@bard.edu Phone ext. 7270 (fall). Aspinwall 111 (fall).
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