Contact Information
Jennifer Smalligan Marušić
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Rm. 112
jmarusic@brandeis.edu
Jennifer S. Marusic
Degrees:
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. (2008)
Williams College, B.A. (1999)
Areas of Expertise: History of Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Logic.
Jennifer Smalligan Marusic completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in December 2008. Her dissertation focused on the work of David Hume, particularly his treatment of explanation and belief in A Treatise of Human Nature. Her primary research interests are in the history of modern philosophy, especially focusing on the British Empiricists. She is currently working on Hume and Locke’s views about the nature of judgment and issues connected to the problem of causation in Hume’s philosophy. In addition, she is interested in a number of topics in the history and philosophy of science, especially the nature of causation and scientific explanation. Finally, she has a growing interest in logic and the history of logic, and enjoys teaching introductory symbolic logic.