Department of Philosophy - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Maureen Eckert

Phone: 508-999 8348

Office: Group I: 382

Courses: PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy, PHL 221 History of Western Philosophy: Ancient, PHL 333 Plato, PHL 334 Aristotle, PHL 236 The Ideal State, PHL 409 (Seminar) "The Real and the Ideal," REL 201: Introduction to Religious Studies

Prof. Eckert is faculty advisor for the Philosophy Association: Meetings Fall '09 4-7:00 PM Liberal Arts Building Room 117

Recent Publications

Fate, Logic and Language by David Foster Wallace. Co-edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Columbia University Press, anticipated publication in 2010).

Contents will include David Foster Wallace’s philosophy thesis, “Richard Taylor’s ‘Fatalism’ and the Semantics of Physical Modality,” Richard Taylor's essay "Fatalism," responses to and defenses of Taylor's argument, explanatory essays regarding David Foster Wallace's work and essays on the philosophical material. An essay by me, "Renewing the Conversation on Fatalism," will address the changes in philosophy that occurred between the debate on Taylor's argument and Wallace's thesis that enabled him to respond to the argument in a novel way.  

Plato's Euthyphro, Apology and Crito with Aristophanes' Clouds in contract with Focus Publishing

May 2009: A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn

October 2006: Theories of Mind: Introductory Readings (Rowman and Littlefield)

Philosophical Horizons: Introductory Readings, eds. Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Irvine: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2005).

Knowledge and Reality: Classic and Contemporary Readings, eds. Steven Cahn, Maureen Eckert, Robert Buckley (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2004).

Conferences

"The Crito-Phaedo Problem" Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Fordham University, NYC, Oct 19, 2009

"Philosophical Futures of Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet and Theories of Consciousness," Antonia Vieira and Futures of Luso-Afro-Brazillian studies and Theory Conference UMD, May 2-3 2008. UMASS Dartmouth

"Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma" Symposium on Greek Philosophy, New Jersey City University, April 26, 2008.

"Initiation into the Mysteries in the Meno," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Fordham University, NYC, Oct 21. 2007, "Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma," Oct 12, N.N.E.P.A. annual meeting, "Is Plato's Apology a Dialogue?" AITNER, Athens Greece June 4th 2007, "Socratic Piety Revisited," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC Oct. 21, 2006

"What is Socratic Piety?" AITNER International Philosophy Conference, Athens Greece, June 1 2006

"'This Site is Under Construction:' Hegel and New Plato(s)" for The Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford University: Sept.2, '05