Fall 2007 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 - noon and also by appointment.
Dr. Beggs earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley and his PhD (dissertation on Plato) from UC Santa Cruz. He came to Barrett in 1999 and became a Department of Philosophy Faculty Affiliate in 2001.
His research has focused mainly on the philosophy of ecology and environmentalism
/enveth/ as well as on social-political philosophy
/polpomo/. Currently, he is trying to understand the relation between subjectivity and late-modern moral-political perspectives
/intersubj/.
His teaching philosophy encompasses both theory and practice. To get a sense of the latter, consider his standards for evaluating student writing and class participation
/class-standards; thesis vs theme/. To get a sense of the former, consider his reasons for believing that the expression “honors education” is a pleonasm
/pleo/. The range of his teaching interests is suggested by his introductory lectures for various courses: existentialism
/exist/, recent French theory
/crypto/, postliberalism
/postlib/, justice and law
/justlaw/, the philosophy of communication
/philcomm/, and the philosophy of nature
/nature/. His most recent “Human Event” syllabi
/HON 171;
HON 272/ represent the core of his pedagogical contribution to the college. For more information on Dr. Beggs’s research and teaching, please see his CV
/vita/.