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Jennifer Marusic

Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy
Jennifer  Marusic
jmarusic@brandeis.edu
781-736-3515
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 112

Departments/Programs

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 139b Topics in Logic
PHIL 166a David Hume
PHIL 179a God, Man, and World: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
PHIL 235a Graduate Seminar in Epistemology

Awards and Honors

Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2019 - 2020)

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 and Berkeley." The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley. Ed. Samuel Rickless. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (forthcoming)

Marusic, Jennifer. "Locke on Causation and Cognition." Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy. Ed. Dominik Perler and Sebastian Bender. Routledge, 2019 (forthcoming)

Marusic, Jennifer. "Locke on Knowledge and Certainty." The Lockean Mind. Ed. Jessica Gordon-Roth and Shelley Weinberg. Routledge, 2019 (forthcoming)

Marusic, Jennifer. "Hume on Atheism." The Blackwell Companion to Atheism and Philosophy. Ed. Graham Oppy., 2019

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.



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