Geoffrey Gorham
Professor of Philosophy
Modern philosophy, Descartes
Old Main, 112
651-696-6048
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Professor Gorham specializes in the history of philosophy, metaphysics and American philosophy. See his website below for full publications and cv. Professor Gorham enjoys collaborating with students. For example, in 2013 he worked with Samuel Eklund on the project 鈥楾he Emancipation of Time in the Seventeenth Century鈥 and in 2017 he worked with Stephanie Van Fossen on ‘Early American Philosophy’. Professor Gorham has recently been a visiting fellow at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science, and the Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Radoud University, Netherlands. He is a resident fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. In his spare time, Professor Gorham skates (on ice) and listens to Schubert or Joy Division.
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Recent Publications:
- “Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time”. /Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy./ Ed. Ohad Nachtomy, Brill Publishers, 2017.
- “Time and Temporal Experience in the Seventeenth Century鈥. /Routledge Handbook of the Temporal Experience/. Ed. Ian Philips. Routledge Publishers, 2017.
- “The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Nature in the Seventeenth Century.” Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science XX. Co-edited edited/introduced with Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik and C. Kenneth Waters. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- 鈥淓mbodied God: Hobbes, Stoics and Deists鈥. /Embodiment/. Ed. Justin E. H. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2016.
- 鈥淗obbes on the Reality of Time鈥. /Hobbes Studies/ 27 (2014): 80-103.
- 鈥淪pinoza on the Ideality of Time鈥. /Idealistic Studies/ 43 (2014): 27-40.
BA: Dalhousie University (King鈥檚 College), 1986
MA: University of Calgary, 1988
PhD: University of Minnesota, 1994.