Nathan Bauer, Ph.D.
Nathan Bauer, Ph.D.
Nathan Bauer, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Biography
Dr. Bauer received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2008. He has broad interests in the history of modern and ancient philosophy, along with the philosophy of science. He has written on Kant, Plato and issues in ethics.
Dr. Bauer is the faculty advisor for the local chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophical honor society.
Courses Taught
- Philosophy of Science
- World Philosophy-I
- World Philosophy-II
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Topics in the History of Philosophy
Recent Publications
- “Departed Souls: Tripartition at the Close of Plato’s Republic”, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, forthcoming.
- “Justice at the Margins: The Social Contract and the Status of Animals” (with David Svolba), Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 15(1), 2017: pp. 51-67.
- “A Peculiar Intuition: Kant’s Conceptualist Account of Perception”, Inquiry, Vol. 55(3), 2012: pp. 215-237.
Recent Presentations
- "The Consequences of Care: A Kantian Reconstruction" (Apr. 4th, 2018)
- “Dealing with Kant’s Racism” (Oct. 27, 2016, Lehigh University)
- “Justice at the Margins: The Challenge of Marginal Cases” (May 26, 2016, Fourth Annual Latin-American Congress of Analytic Philosophy, San José, Costa Rica)
- “Dealing with Kant’s Racism” (March 2, 2016, Theorizing at Rowan)
- “The Shortest Way: Kant’s Rewriting of the Transcendental Deduction” (April 24, 2015, Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society, Georgetown University)
- “Justice at the Margins” (Nov. 7, 2013, Theorizing at Rowan)
- “Departed Souls: Tripartition at the Close of Plato’s Republic” (Oct. 2-3, 2013, Lehigh University)
Other Useful Links
- My Philpapers profile
- My interview about the Philosophy Club for Rowan's "On the Couch"
