Ted Humphrey, Ph.D., is President’s Professor and Barrett Professor in Barrett, the honors college at Arizona State University. He is affiliated with the Lincoln Center as a Lincoln Professor of Ethics, the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law and the Philosophy Department. His current scholarly focus is Latin American intellectual history. With Dr. Janet M. Burke, he is developing for Hackett Publishing Company an anthology of Latin American intellectual history that comprehensively represents the several traditions of thought central to Latin America’s intellectual development and self-understanding. The first volume of that anthology appeared in March, 2007 as Nineteenth Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition. They are now developing the second volume, The Rise of American Consciousness. In addition, they are working on new translations of Hernan Cortés’s Cartas de Relación and Bernal Díaz de Castillo’s True History of the Conquest of New Spain. The figures to which Professor Humphrey devotes particular attention include Andrés Bello, Juan Montalvo, Carlos Vaz Ferreira, and Jose Vasconcelos. His published scholarship includes numerous essays on problems of reason and will and space and time in classical modern philosophy, as well as Kant’s epistemology, late metaphysics, and moral and political theory. His translations of Kant’s Enlightenment writings have become standards in the field, and his translation of Kant’s Perpetual Peace appeared in a new edition in September 2003. Professor Humphrey chaired ASU’s Philosophy Department from 1974-1983. From 1983 he directed ASU’s Honors Program, guiding it to collegiate status, becoming the founding dean of the Barrett Honors College in 1988, a position he held until 2003. He is past president of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Numerous organizations have awarded him their highest honors for teaching excellence, and the Arizona Republic cited him as a force for excellent undergraduate education in Arizona.
Professor Humphrey received his education at the University of California, Berkeley, Riverside, and San Diego.
Spring 2008 The Human Event Assignment Sheet
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Spring 2008 Latin American History II Syllabus