RICHARD H. DEES (Ph.D., Michigan, 1990) is associate professor of philosophy and a member of the core faculty of women's studies. He has published articles on Hume, contextual models of justification, and on the foundations of toleration, and he is currently working on a book, Trust and Toleration. He regularly teaches graduate seminars in early modern philosophy and in contemporary political thought, including Hume, Hobbes to Locke, The Birth of the Modern (Montaigne, Descartes, and Hobbes), Feminist Philosophy (team-taught with Prof. Stump), and on Liberalism and its Critics. He teaches undergraduate courses in Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, Contemporary American Political Thought, and eighteenth-century political thought (including Rousseau to Revolution; Liberty and Authority, with Duane Smith in English; and Authority, Legitimacy, and the French Revolution, with Annie Smart in French). He received his B.A. from Rice University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990. Email can be sent to deesrh@slu.edu | |
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