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Dennis Sepper, PhD

Dennis L. Sepper, PhD

Professor, Human Sciences

Phone: (972) 721-5257

Email: sepper@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #320

Office Hours: M 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. / T 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. / R 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. or by Appointment

About

 

  • PhD, University of Chicago, 1981.
  • M.A., University of Chicago, 1974
  • B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1973

Undergraduate

  • PHI 1301 Philosophy and the Ethical Life
  • PHI 2323 Philosophy of Man
  • PHI 3311 Philosophy of Being
  • PHI 3327 Early Modern Philosophy
  • PHI 3328 Recent Philosophy
  • PHI 3351 Junior Seminar
  • PHI 4331 Epistemology
  • PHI 4335 Philosophy of Language
  • HUSC 2101 Introduction to Human Sciences
  • HUSC 2301 The World of the 21st Century
  • HUSC 3311 Arts in Contemporary Culture
  • HUSC 3312 Civilization of Science and Technology
  • HUSC 3331 Foundations of the Human Sciences
  • HUSC 4341 Tradition of Innovation

Graduate 

  • PHI 5100 Proseminar
  • PHI 5300 Philosophy of Language
  • PHI 5309 Foundations of the Human Sciences
  • PHI 5345 Philosophy of Technology
  • PHI 6354 Philosophy of Language
  • PHI 6377 Nature of Tradition
  • PHI 6377 Selected Texts: Nietzsche
  • PHI 6377 Rationalism & Empiricism
  • PHI 7344 Kant and Idealism
  • PHI 7344 Text Seminar: Descartes
  • PHI 7344 Text Seminar: Kant
  • PHI 8345 Philosophical Anthropology
  • PHI 8380 Philosophy of Imagination
  • IPS 8352 Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevski
  • PHI 6352-01 Text Seminar: Nietzsche

Books

. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2013.

. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Articles

Cognitive Pluralism as Obligation? In Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense, 5 vols., edited by Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, et al. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress 2010. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2013.

Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining." In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 156-176. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination. In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 322342. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Goethe and the Poetics of Science. Janus Head 8, no. 1 (Summer 2005): 207-227.

Phenomenology and Mind-Body Problems, in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, edited by John L. Heilbron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Prospero and the Times of Reading, in Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context: Selected Essays for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, edited by Bainard Cowan and Scott Lee. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002, 83-87.

The Texture of Thought: Why Descartes' Meditationes is Meditational, and Why It Matters, in Descartes' Natural Philosophy, edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton. London: Routledge, 2000, 736-750.