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Professor Jennifer Smalligan Marušić has won the 2011 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize, which was held for Hume’s tercentenary. This year’s prize was granted for the best essay on the theme “Hume after 300 Years.” Professor Marušić's paper is titled “Refuting the whole system? Hume’s attack on popular religion in ‘The Natural History of Religion.’” The paper will be published in July or October.
Jennifer S. Marusic
Office: Mandel Center for the Humanities, Rm. 112
Email: jmarusic@brandeis.edu
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.