Dennis 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
鈥淐ognitive Pluralism as Obligation? In Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense,鈥� 5 vols., edited by Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, et al. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress 2010. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2013.
鈥淐artesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining." In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 156-176. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
鈥淪pinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination.鈥� In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 322342. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
鈥淕oethe and the Poetics of Science.鈥� Janus Head 8, no. 1 (Summer 2005): 207-227.
鈥淧henomenology鈥� and 鈥淢ind-Body Problems,鈥� in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, edited by John L. Heilbron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
鈥淧rospero and the Times of Reading,鈥� 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.
鈥淭he Texture of Thought: Why Descartes' Meditationes is Meditational, and Why It Matters,鈥� in Descartes' Natural Philosophy, edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton. London: Routledge, 2000, 736-750.