Department Chair Lorenzo Simpson
Lorenzo Simpson, Professor

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University, 1978
M. Phil., Philosophy, Yale University, 1973
M.S., Physics, University of Maryland, 1970
Further study in Physics, University of Maryland, 1970-1
B.A., Physics and Philosophy, Yale University, 1968

E-mail: lsimpson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Areas of Specialization

Contempoarary continental philosophy (hermeneutics and critical theory); philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy of science and of technology; neopragmatism and postanalytic philosophy (Rorty, Davidson, Quine and Putnam); philosophy and race

Selected Publications

The Unfinished Project: Towards a Postmetaphysical Humanism (Routledge)
Technology, Time and the Conversations of Modernity (Routledge, 1995)
'Communication and the Politics of Difference: Reading Iris Young', in Constellations
'Humanism, Postmodernism and Irony', in Studies in Practical Philosophy
'Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Black Modernity', in A Blackwell Companion to African American Philosophy, ed. Tommy Lott and John Pittman (Oxford)

Curriculum Vitae

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