Lisa Damm

 

I entered the doctorate program in philosophy at the

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the Fall of

2003. I arrived here just after graduating from

Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where I double

majored in philosophy and math.

 

I advanced to candidacy in July 2006 and now I

am writing my dissertation.  My project focuses on

developing a theoretical framework for the process of emotion experience and exploring the topics of self manipulation and self deception within that framework.  My general interests other than emotion include: reasoning (particularly moral and practical reasoning), decision making, rationality, cognition, personality identity, and metaethics.

 

I have taken or audited (A) the following classes in graduate school:

 

Cogs 200: Neurophilosophy with Patricia Churchland

Cogs 200: Time and Cognition with Rick Grush

Cogs 201: Systems Neuroscience with Marty Sereno

Phil 120: Symbolic Logic with Gila Sher

Phil 122: Modal Logic with Gila Sher

Phil 106: Kant with Eric Watkins

Phil 149: Philosophy of Psychology with Bill Bechtel (A)

Phil 161: Greek Ethics with David Brink

Phil 200: Proseminar on Free Will and Responsibility with Dana Nelkin

Phil201A: Spinoza’s Ethics with Don Rutherford

Phil 202: Practical Reasoning with David Brink

Phil 204: Philosophy of Science with Bill Bechtel (A)

Phil 245: Philosophical Problems in Quantum Mechanics with Craig Callendar

Phil 267: Rawls and His Critics with Jerry Doppelt

Phil 237: Philosophy of Mind with Paul Churchland

Phil 202: Mill’s Political and Ethical Theory with David Brink

Phil 285: Rousseau and the Stoics On Nature with Wayne Martin

Phil 260: Persons and Values with David Brink (A)

Poli 204C: Game Theory with Branislav Slantchev

Psych 205: Emotion with Christine Harris

Psych 209: Judgment and Decision Making with Craig McKenzie

Psych 233A: Human Decision Making with Edmund Fantino

Psych 237: Human Rationality with Craig McKenzie

Psych 258: Delay of Gratification with Nicholas Christenfeld

 

I have been a teaching assistant for the following undergraduate classes:

 

Phil 10: Introduction to Logic (x6)

Phil 12: Logic and Decision Making (x2)

Phil 27: Ethics and Society

Phil 147: Philosophy of Biology

Phil 163: Biomedical Ethics (x2)

Phil 168: Philosophy of Law

 

Summer 2005 I taught a class to high school students on Biomedical ethics for the Academic Connections program through UCSD.  And this summer I will be teaching a class on happiness and the good life through the same program.  Click here to see the course description.

 

During the academic year of 2005-06 I taught four sections of an introductory writing course (MCWP 40) for the Muir College Writing Program.

 

In Fall 2006 and Summer 2007 I taught Phil 10: Introduction to Logic.

 

Click here to link to a rough version of my CV.