Jennifer Marusic

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Departments/Programs

History of Ideas
Philosophy

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
Williams College, B.A.

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 has published papers on Hume's theory of causation, his account of belief, and his philosophy of religion. She is working on a book on Locke's philosophy of mind and epistemology, including his theories of judgment, perception, and knowledge. During 2013-2015, she held a Marie Curie Fellowship at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she worked on a project entitled "Three Conceptions of Judgment in Early Modern Philosophy." Webpage

Courses Taught

PHIL	1a	Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL	35a	Philosophy of Science
PHIL	106b	Mathematical Logic
PHIL	130a	Causation and Explanation
PHIL	134b	Philosophy of Perception
PHIL	139b	Topics in Logic
PHIL	166a	David Hume
PHIL	179a	God, Man, and World: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
PHIL	180b	From Sensation to Understanding: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
PHIL	200a	Graduate Proseminar
PHIL	235a	Graduate Seminar in Epistemology

Awards and Honors

Marie Curie Fellowship (2013 - 2015)

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

Davis Teaching Fellow (2012 - 2013)

Scholarship

Marusic, Jennifer. "Hume on Atheism." The Blackwell Companion to Atheism and Philosophy. Ed. Graham Oppy., 2018 (forthcoming)

Marusic, Jennifer. "Berkeley on the Objects of Perception." Berkeley’s Three Dialogues: New Essays. Ed. Stephan Storrie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 40-60.

Marusic, Jennifer. "Dugald Stewart on Conjectural History and Human Nature." Journal of Scottish Philosophy 15. 3 (2017): 261-274.

Marusic, Jennifer. "Judgment and belief, in early modern philosophy." Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.

Marusic, Jennifer. "Locke's Simple Account of Sensitive Knowledge." The Philosophical Review 125. 2 (2016): 205-239.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Hume on the Projection of Causal Necessity." Philosophy Compass 9. 4 (2014): 263-273.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Propositions and Judgments in Locke and Arnauld: A Monstrous and Unholy Union?." Journal of the History of Philosophy 52. 2 (2014): 255-280.

Marusic, Jennifer Smalligan. "Review of Louis Loeb, Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid." British Journal for the History of Philosophy vol. 21 2013: 800-803.

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.