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, Spring 2011)
• 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)
• Philosophy 201: Hume's Treatise (Spring 2009, co-taught with Sam Rickless)

Dissertations Chaired

• Daniel Schwartz, "Baconian Foundationalism and the Problem of Certainty" (in progress)
• Erin Frykholm, "Narrative Epistemology and the Variability of Virtues: Hume on Character and Moral Evaluation" (Ph.D. 2011, co-chaired with Dick Arneson)
• Kristen Irwin, "The Core Mysteries: Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Fideism" (Ph.D. 2010)
• Carl Sachs, "The Collapse of Transcendence in Nietzsche's Middle Period" (Ph.D. 2005)
• Matthew Kisner, "Descartes' Naturalistic Rationalism" (Ph.D. 2004)
• 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: July 20, 2011