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Core Faculty Daniel Berthold (chair)William James Griffith Garry L. Hagberg Robert L. Martin David Shein Affiliated Faculty Norton BatkinJames Brudvig Alan Sussman Visiting Faculty Adam Rosen-CaroleCore Faculty
Daniel Berthold (chair)
Professor of Philosophy B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Specialization in continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, existentialism, phenomenology), Freud, and applied ethics (bioethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics). Author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis: A Study of Being, Thought and History; Hegel’s Theory of Madness; and The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard. Articles and reviews in journals including Clio, Environmental Ethics, History and Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Idealistic Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Ludus Vitalis, Man and World, Metaphilosophy, Modern Language Notes, Noûs, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Religious Studies, The Review of Metaphysics, Social Theory and Practice, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. Contributor to The Dictionary of Existentialism. Editorial board, Topoi Library. Academic advisory board member, McGraw-Hill Philosophy Web Resources. Advisory council, The Hastings Center Program in Ethics, Science, and the Environment. (1984– ) Professor of Philosophy. Professor Berthold teaches courses in continental philosophy, applied ethics, Freud, feminist philosophy, the philosophy of religion, critical reasoning, and a multicultural introduction to philosophy.
William James Griffith
Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Philosophy Program A.B., cum laude, Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. NDEA Fellow. (1968– ) Professor of Philosophy. Professor Griffith teaches courses in logic, ethics, the philosophy of law, economic justice, Plato, William James, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Contact information: Griffith@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7208. Aspinwall 101 (spring).
Garry L. Hagberg
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy B.A. (music, philosophy, psychology), M.A., Ph.D. (philosophy), University of Oregon. Visiting graduate studies, Oxford University; postdoctoral research, Cambridge University. Fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities; Dartmouth College (in both music and literature); Cambridge University (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and the Humanities); Institute for the Theory and Criticism of the Visual Arts; British Museum and Library, London; Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Washington, D.C.; and many others. Author of Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2008); Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory (Cornell University Press, 1995); Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge (Cornell, 1994); editor of Art and Ethical Criticism (Blackwell, 2008); co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Blackwell, 2009). Author of about 50 articles and 35 reviews, review-essays, and art catalogue essays, with contributions to philosophical journals such as Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophical Quarterly; specialized journals such as The British Journal of Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Philosophy and Literature, and Ethics; journals in the Wittgensteinian tradition such as Philosophical Investigations and Wittgenstein-Studien; literary journals such as New Literary History, Poetics Today, The Henry James Review, and The New Novel Review; reference works such as The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Encyclopedia of the Essay, The Encyclopedia of Life-Writing, and The Blackwell Companion to Art Theory; and numerous edited collections. He has delivered invited philosophical papers and talks at conferences and colloquia around the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and Russia; serves (since 2002) as joint Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature (based at Bard); serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and has served the American Society for Aesthetics as National Program Chair, Trustee, guest-editor of its journal (for a special issue on Improvisation in the Arts), and many other offices; serves on the executive committee of The British Society for Aesthetics, Oxford; and has served on numerous doctoral committees (Columbia University, McGill University, Tel Aviv University, others) and supervised masters and doctoral students at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, where he held a Chair (while on leave from Bard) in the School of Philosophy 2006-2009. Forthcoming work includes pieces for The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, an edited volume Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, and the edited volume Philosophy as Therapeia from the Royal Institute of Philosophy; work-in-progress includes the co-authored volume Wittgenstein on Music, and a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility, Living in Words: Literature, Language, and the Constitution of Selfhood. (1990– ) James H. Ottaway Jr.Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics. Professor Hagberg teaches specialized courses on the philosophy of the arts and the history of aesthetic thought; the philosophy of language since 1900; pragmatism; and the development of twentieth-century philosophy, in addition to courses on issues and authors from Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Contact information: hagberg@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7270. Aspinwall 111.
Robert L. Martin
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, Bard Conservatory of Music; Professor of Philosophy and Music Robert Martin studied philosophy at Haverford College (B.A., 1961) and Yale University (Ph.D. 1965). He taught in the philosophy departments of the University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University (where he was tenured in 1969), University of California (Irvine and Los Angeles campuses), and at Bard College since 1994. His research areas are philosophy of language and philosophy of music. His philosophy publications include two books which he edited and to which he contributed: Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, Oxford University Press, 1984, and The Paradox of the Liar, Yale University Press, 1970. He published twenty-four articles, chapters and reviews, ranging from "Toward a Solution to the Liar Paradox," in The Philosophical Review 76 in 1967 to "Ontology of Music" in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press) in 1998 and a review of Inside Beethoven’s Quartets, by Lewis Lockwood and the Juilliard String Quartet (Harvard Press, 2008) published in Chamber Music in 2008. At UCLA, Martin co-authored (with David Kaplan) logic software (Logic: A Workbook) for the Kalish-Montague natural deduction system; a web-based version of that software has since been written and is used in Martin’s Symbolic Logic course at Bard. Professor Martin teaches courses in logic, the philosophy of music, and analytic philosophy. Contact information: martin@bard.edu. Phone ext. 7419. Avery N130.
David Shein
Assistant Dean of the College & Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy B.A., State University of New York at Oswego; M.Phil., Graduate Center, City University of New York; Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY. Has taught at Lehman College. Areas of interest: realism and antirealism, relativism, metaphysics, and epistemology. Developed Bard’s Academic Services Center and Disability Services. Numerous presentations at professional conferences. Assistant Dean of the College and Associate Dean of Student Affairs (2005– ). Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Professor Shein teaches courses on the philosophy of science, political philosophy, skepticism, and relativism. Affiliated Faculty
Norton Batkin
Dean of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History In the Philosophy Department, Professor Batkin teaches a course on Politics and the Arts: Art, Politics, and Democratic Culture.Contact information: batkin@bard.edu. RKC 202. Phone ext. 7895.
James Brudvig
Vice President for Administration Professor Brudvig teaches a course on informal logic.
Alan Sussman
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy B.A.,M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., L.L.M., New York University School of Law. Lawyer in private practice, specializing in civil rights. Coauthor, The Rights of Parents and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Legislation. Author, The Rights of Young People. Other publications include articles in New York University Law Review, Criminal Law Bulletin, Family Law Quarterly, Seton Hall Law Review, Politics & Culture, and others. (1999– ) Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy. Professor Sussman teaches courses in the philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. Contact information: alansussman@hotmail.com. Phone ext. 7280 (fall), 7208 (spring). Aspinwall 109 (fall), Aspinwall 101 (spring). Visiting Faculty
Adam Rosen-Carole
B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.Phil., Ph.D., The New School for Social Research. Areas of specialization include social-political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and German Idealism. Has contributed articles to The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Glossator, Alternatives, Centennial Review, Ethical Perspectives, and others. Research interests include: the nature and status of psychoanalytic knowledge, philosophy and the claims of suffering (pathos, pathology), political philosophy after Adorno and Derrida. Honors include Holocaust Memorial Stipend (2006?07); Kirson Moness Fellow (2006?07); Oratory Founders Medal (2001). (2008– ). Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and First-Year Seminar, Director of Debate.
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