Harold Langsam
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
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- Office Address: 107 Cocke Hall
- Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30, Wednesdays 10:45-11:45 & by appointment
Professor of Philosophy. Professor Langsam works primarily in the areas of philosophy of mind and epistemology. He is especially interested in the nature of conscious states and their relevance to epistemic justification. He also teaches Nietzsche at the undergraduate level and human nature at the introductory level.
Book:
The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
Recent Articles:
“McDowell’s Infallibilism and the Nature of Knowledge,” Synthese, http://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02682-4
“Why Intentionalism Cannot Explain Phenomenal Character,” Erkenntnis 85 (2020): 375-389.
“Nietzsche and Value Creation: Subjectivism, Self-Expression, and Strength,” Inquiry 61 (2018): 100-113.
“The Intuitive Case for Naïve Realism,” Philosophical Explorations 20 (2017): 106-122.