Department of Philosophy
Peter Weigel
Associate Professor of Philosophy
E-mail: pweigel2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7428
Office Location: Smith 227
Office Hours
Contact for appointment.
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University
- M.Phil., Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews, UK
- B.A., Philosophy, Marquette University
Experience
Lecturer at Yale University and Fairfield Jesuit University prior to arriving at Washington College (Fall 2001).
Areas of Interest
- Philosophy of Religion
- Medieval Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Analytic Philosophy
- History of Christian Thought
Recent works include a book on the philosophical theology of Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas on Simplicity (Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers, 2008), "Happiness, Division, and the Self in Plato's Symposium" in The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 96 (January, 2008), and "Memory and the Unity of the Imagination in Spinoza" in International Philosophical Quarterly (June, 2009) as well as a review of Martin De Nys's Considering Transcendence appearing in The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 52, No.4 (September, 2009).
Courses
Philosophy of Religion, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Logic, Existentialism, Comparative Religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
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