Graduate Teaching

As well as the courses listed below, I have offered graduate seminars at UCSD on: Hobbes; Hellenistic and Early Modern Ethics; Natures and Laws in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy. Most recently I have taught:

• Philosophy 201A: Spinoza's Ethics (Fall 2004)
• Philosophy 214: Leibniz, Nature and Mathematics (Winter 2006)
• Philosophy 285: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality (Winter 2007)
• Philosophy 285: Epicureanism, Ancient and Modern (Spring 2008, co-taught with Monte Johnson)

In Winter quarter 2009, Sam Rickless and I will be co-teaching a seminar on Hume, focusing on the second and third books of the Treatise.

Dissertations Chaired

• Erin Frykholm, "Character and Virtue in Hume's Ethics" (in progress, co-chaired with Dick Arneson)
• Kristen Irwin, "The Core Mysteries: Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Fideism" (in progress)
• Carl Sachs, "The Collapse of Transcendence in Nietzsche's Middle Period" (Ph.D. 2005)
• Matthew Kisner, "Descartes' Naturalistic Rationalism" (Ph.D. 2003)
• Michael Futch, "Time and Causation in Leibniz's Metaphysics" (Ph.D. 2001, Emory University)
• Christa Davis Acampora, "Philosophos Agonistes: Nietzsche as Exemplar and Educator" (Ph.D. 1998, Emory University)
• Steven Parchment, "Spinoza's Doctrine of Immortality" (Ph.D. 1997, Emory University)

Donald Rutherford / drutherford@ucsd.edu
University of California, San Diego
Last update: November 10, 2008