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University of Wyoming
 

Susanna Goodin

 

Associate Professor

Philosophy
 

Areas of Specialization

Early modern philosophy, Locke, Leibniz.

Areas of Competence

Environmental ethics, normative ethics.

 

Academic Appointments

1998, Department of Philosophy, University of Wyoming, Associate Professor.

1992–1998, Department of Philosophy, University of Wyoming, Assistant Professor.

 

Education

1990            Rice University, Ph.D. (Philosophy).

                    Dissertation: Locke's Skepticism Concerning Natural Science.

                    Advisor: Kulstad. Committee: Grandy.

1985            Rice University, M.A. (Philosophy).

1981            Texas Tech University, B.A. (Philosophy).

 

Publications

Articles

“Leibniz, Locke, and Gold:  Kinds and Species in Historical Debate and Contemporary Science” (with M. Kulstad)

Proceedings of the Leibniz Conference (2001).

“Locke and Leibniz and the Debate over Species ”

In New Essays on the Rationalists, R. Gennaro &  C. Huenemann, Eds., Oxford University Press, (1999).

“Monadic Hierarchies and the Great Chain of Being ” (with C. Goad)

Studia Lebniziana, XXIX (1997).

“A Refutation of the Possibility of Real Species in Locke:  A Response to Phemister ”

Locke Newsletter, 28 (1997): 67-86.

“Why Knowledge of the Real Essence Is Not the Same as Knowledge of the Inner Constitution and Why This Matters ”

Southwest Philosophy Review, 14 (1997): 149-155.

“An Analysis of U.S. Disinvestment from South Africa:  Utility, Rights, and Justice”

Journal of Business Ethics, 16 (1997): 1687-1703.

“Tertiary Qualities in Locke's Essay”

Locke Newsletter, 23 (1992): 59-81.

 

Reviews/Abstracts

“Leibniz’s Universal Jurisprudence by Patrick Riley”

Journal of the History of Philosophy, Xxxvi (1998): 470-471.

“Leibniz: Determinist, Idealist, Theist by Robert Adams”

Review of Metaphysics (1996).

 

Fellowships and Awards

2003     Wyoming Professor of the Year, CASE Foundation

2003    Ellbogen Teaching Award, University of Wyoming

2000    Extraordinary Merit in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences. University of Wyoming

1998    "Top Profs", Mortar Board Senior Honorary, University of Wyoming

1995    NEH Summer Seminar: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz (Jonathan Bennett, director), Syracuse University

 

Departmental Service

Director of Undergraduate Advising (Philosophy)

 

Courses

Undergraduate (frequently taught)

  • History of Modern Philosophy

  • Environmental Ethics

  • Sex, Love, and Philosophy

Recent Graduate Seminars

  • Locke, Leibniz and the New Essays

  • Locke and the Philosophy of Biology

  • History of Causation

  • History of Substance

  • Seminar on J. S. Mill