Philosophy Faculty and Staff

John

P.

Casey

Ph.D.

Professor, Coordinator, Advisor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5922

j-casey1@neiu.edu

Expertise

History of Philosophy, Logic and Critical Thinking

Courses Taught

PHIL 101-Argument and Reasoning

PHIL 102-Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 201-Logic I

PHIL 300-History of Ancient Philosophy

PHIL 301-History of Medieval Philosophy

Phil 302-History of Modern Philosophy

PHIL 303-Logic II

PHIL 371-Theory of Knowledge

PHIL 384-Philosophy of Religion

PHIL 385-Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 396-Seminar in the History of Philosophy

PHIL 341-Metaphysics

Research Interests

Argumentation, History of Medieval Philosophy

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago (2002)

Selected Publications

Books

. (with Scott Aikin) 2022. Bloomsbury.

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REcent Articles and essays

“” (with Scott Aikin) Social Epistemology. Forthcoming.

“” (with Scott Aikin), Res Philosophica, Vol. 101, No. 1, , pp. 163–170, 2024

“?” (with Scott Aikin), Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines. 2023.

“On Halting Meta-Argument with Para-Argument” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 37, 323–340, 2023.

“Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors.” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation 37, 295–305, 2023.

“” (with Katharina Stevens). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2023.

“.” (with Scott Aikin) Philosophy & Rhetoric. Volume 55, Number 4, 2022, pp. 360-385.

“” Southwest Journal of Philosophy. 38 (2) July 2022.

“How to have better arguments” (with Scott Aikin). . 2022.

“.” Languages 7: 107. 2022.

“” (with Scott Aikin). Synthese. 200. 2022.

“” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 36; 249–268, 2022.

"." (with David Godden). Argumentation. 2020.

“.” Informal Logic. 40 (1) 77-108. 2020,

External Publications Link

j-casey1@neiu.edu

Room LWH 3085
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5922

Office Hours

Office Hours Spring 2024
Monday: 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:00-10:50 a.m. and 1:30-2:10 p.m.
Other times by appointment.

Main Campus

Stacey

L.

Goguen

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Advisor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5797

s-goguen@neiu.edu

Expertise

Feminist Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

Courses Taught

PHIL 102-Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 213-Ethics

PHIL 250-Ethics in Science and Research

PHIL 311-Writing Intensive Program: Arguing Philosophically

PHIL 332-Contemporary Philosophy

PHIL-353 Feminism and the Philosophy of Science

PHIL 366-Feminist Ethics

PHIL-371 Theory of Knowledge

PHIL 373-Feminist Philosophy

PHIL 374 (prev. PHIL 218)-Philosophy of Sex

PHIL 375-Philosophy of Science

WGS 302-Feminist Theory

WGS 316-Science and the Gendered Body

Research Interests

Epistemic Injustice, Active Ignorance, Misinformation & Scams, Stereotypes, Bias, Women in Philosophy, Objectivity in Science

Education

B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)

Ph.D. Philosophy, Boston University

Selected Publications

Books

Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives. Co-edited with Benjamin Sherman. Rowman & Littlefield. 2019.

Recent Articles and essays

“Hermeneutical Backlash: Trans Youth Panics as Epistemic Injustice.” Co-Written with B. R. George (Carnegie Mellon). Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. 7(4): 1-34. 2021.

“Is Asking What Women Want the Right Question? Underrepresentation in philosophy and differences in interests.” Dialogue. 57(2): 409-441. 2018.

“Stereotype Threat, Epistemic Injustice, and Rationality” in Implicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume I. Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul, eds. Oxford University Press. 2016.

s-goguen@neiu.edu

Room LWH 3086
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5797

Office Hours

Spring 2023
Monday: 2:15-4 p.m.
Wednesday: 10-11:30 a.m.

Main Campus

Daniel

J.

Milsky

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Advisor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5798

d-milsky@neiu.edu

Expertise

Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Ecology, Environmental Ethics

Courses Taught

PHIL 213-Ethics

PHIL 214-Medical Ethics

PHIL 215-Business Ethics

PHIL 365-Environmental Ethics

PHIL 362-Philosophy of Law

PHIL 375-Philosophy of Science

Research Interests

Environmental Ethics, Restoration Ecology, Locavorism, Popular Culture and Philosophy

Education

B.A. Philosophy, Union College (Schenectady, New York)

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Selected Publications

"Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy" (Open Court Press)

"Radiohead and Philosophy" (Open Court Press)

Professional Affiliations & Membership

d-milsky@neiu.edu

Room LWH 3084
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5798

Office Hours

Please contact by email at d-milsky@neiu.edu for summer office hours

Main Campus

Sophia

Mihic

Coordinator; Professor

Political Science

Philosophy

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5652

S-Mihic@neiu.edu

Expertise

Political Theory, Anglo-Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, “Race,” Class, and the Politics of the Legal Order, The History of Political Thought

Courses Taught

ZHON 193 – Honors Introduction to the Social Sciences

PSCI 216 – American National Government

PSCI/PHIL 390 – Classical Political Theory

PSCI/PHIL 390 Modern Political Theory

PSCI 392 – WIP: Contemporary Political Theory

PHIL 345 – Social and Political Philosophy

PSCI 382/PHIL 382 – Marx Seminar

PHIL 389 – Foucault Seminar

PHIL 387 – Arendt Seminar

PSCI 401 – Classics of Political Science

PSCI 491 – Arendt Seminar

Research Interests

Dr. Mihic’s research and teaching focuses on the philosophy of interpretive inquiry in the social sciences, the work of Hannah Arendt, and the structural grounds of order and identity politics in 20th and now 21st century democracies. She also teaches and writes on the history of political thought, literature and political theory and the politics of the legal order. She was a fellow at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University—where she was awarded a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation—and a fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2000

M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

B.A., Political Science, University of Florida 1982

Selected Publications

“‘the end was in the beginning’: Melville, Ellison and the Democratic Death of Progress in Typee,” Jason Frank, ed. The Political Companion to Herman Melville, University of Kentucky Press, January 2014

“Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing,” Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly, Alan Finlayson, ed., Routledge, October 2009

“Facts, Values and ‘Real’ Numbers: Making Sense In and Of Political Science,” with Stephen G. Engelmann and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, George Steinmetz, ed., Duke University Press, 2005

“Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Privacy: An Experiment in Feminist Theorizing,” Feminist Theory, 9(2), August 2008

S-Mihic@neiu.edu

LWH 2074
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5652

Office Hours

TBA

Main Campus

Curriculum Vitae

Mihic_CV_07_2016.pdf75.81 KB

Roumiana

Stankova

Instructor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4080

r-stankova@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

PHIL 101-Critical Thinking

PHIL 102-Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 213-Ethics

Research Interests

Philosophy and Modern Science, Futurology, Philosophy of Education and Education of Philosophy

Education

University of Sofia, Bulgaria

M.A. Major: Philosophy, Minor: English

Selected Publications

"Values and Creativity", "Moral Values and AIDS", "Gender Education in Bulgaria", "Education of Philosophy: A View from Inside".

“Gender Education in Bulgarian Schools”, Education (Sofia), No 4, 1998

“Education: A View from Inside”, Education (Sofia), No 5, 1997

“Values and Creativity”, Annual Records of Medical Academy, Sofia 1990

Professional Affiliations & Membership

r-stankova@neiu.edu

El Centro
91Porn
3390 N. Avondale Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

(773) 442-4080

Office Hours

Tuesday and Thursday: 9:15-9:45 a.m. in Room CBM 140
Friday: 1:50-2:50 p.m. in Room CBM 140
Friday: 5:10-6:10 p.m. at El Centro
and by appointment

El Centro

Main Campus

Mark

Rockwell

Ph.D.

Instructor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

mdrockw1@neiu.edu

Expertise

Philosophy of Education, Ethics, Argument and Reasoning

Courses Taught

Comparative Religion, Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Argument and Reasoning

Research Interests

Philosophy of Education

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Loyola University Chicago

mdrockw1@neiu.edu

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday: 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4:00 p.m.

Main Campus

David

Waldman

Instructor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5797

d-waldman@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

PHIL 101-Critical Thinking

PHIL 213-Ethics

PHIL 102-Introduction to Philopsophy

PHIL 222-History of Ancient Philosophy

PHIL 241-History of Modern Philosophy

Research Interests

Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy and Blues

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, Il

University of Illinois, Chicago Il

Additional Information

David Waldman studied philosophy at Columbia in New York, University of Chicago, and UIC. He’s particularly interested in ethics, political philosophy, and the history of Philosophy. He also has a passion for blues and has performed at clubs around Chicago.

d-waldman@neiu.edu

Room LWH 3086
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5797

Office Hours

Tuesday and Thursday: 3-4 p.m.
and by appointment.

Main Campus