Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

Expertise

Area of Specialization: History of Modern Philosophy
Areas of Competence: History and Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic.

Profile

Jennifer completed her PhD at UC Berkeley in 2008. Her research focuses on the history of modern philosophy, especially the British Empiricists. Her dissertation explored David Hume's views about belief and explanation. She is currently working on Locke's account of judgment.

Awards and Honors

Marie Curie Fellowship (2013)

"Hume after 300 Years" 2011 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize Winner (2012)

Davis Teaching Fellow (2012)

Courses Taught

PHIL	6a	Introduction to Symbolic Logic
PHIL	7a	Science, Evolution, and Design
PHIL	18b	Introduction to the History of Philosophy
PHIL	35a	Philosophy of Science
PHIL	130a	Causation and Explanation
PHIL	139b	Topics in Logic
PHIL	166a	David Hume
PHIL	180b	From Sensation to Understanding: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
PHIL	239a	Topics in Metaphysics

Scholarship

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Propositions and Judgments in Locke and Arnauld: A Monstrous and Unholy Union?." Journal of the History of Philosophy (2012). (forthcoming)

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Refuting the whole system? Hume's attack on popular religion in "The Natural History of Religion"." The Philosophical Quarterly 62. (2012): 715-735.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Belief and Introspective Knowledge in Treatise 1.3.7." Hume Studies 37. (2011): 99-122.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Does Hume Hold a Dispositional Account of Belief?." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40. (2010): 155-183.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Comments on Jacovides 'How Berkeley Corrupted His Capacity to Conceive'." Philosophia 37. 3 (2009): 431-436.