Marc Gasser
Department of Philosophy
Harvard University
Emerson Hall 209a
25 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected]
www.marcgasser.net
Education
2015 (exp) Harvard University, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Committee: Russell Jones, Alison Simmons, Gisela Striker, Mary Louise Gill (Brown)
2008
The University of Chicago, B.A. with General Honors & Special Honors in Philosophy
Minors in Mathematics & Classical Studies (language variant)
Research Interests
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Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics
Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Mathematical Logic (incl. incompleteness theorems),
Philosophy of Mind (esp. perception), Philosophy of Science
Publications
2014
Structuralism and Its Ontology, Ergo (forthcoming)
Presentations
(*invited; °refereed)
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011
°Aristotle on Perceiving Universals, UPenn/Temple Ancient Philosophy Workshop, April 5
Inference and Intuition in Aristotle’s Epistemology, Harvard M&E Workshop, March 3
Perception in Posterior Analytics A31, Harvard M&E Workshop, September 23
*Universals in Posterior Analytics A31, Tahoe Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, May 31
*On Induction in Posterior Analytics B19, Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, March 15
Aristotle on Perception and Scientific Knowledge, Harvard M&E Workshop, November 5
Autarkeia and Contemplation, Harvard M&E Workshop, April 23
°Autarkeia and Contemplation, UT Austin Ancient Philosophy Workshop, March 24
Structuralism Without Ontology, Harvard M&E Workshop, November 21
Teaching & Coursework
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s2013
f2013
f2012
s2012
f2011
Teaching
Departmental Writing Fellow (writing tutor for undergraduate philosophy students)
Instructor (sole teaching responsibility) for Philosophy 97, Perception
Instructor (sole teaching responsibility) for Philosophy 98hf, Plato on Knowledge & Understanding
Teaching Fellow for Empirical & Mathematical Reasoning 17, Deductive Logic
Teaching Fellow for Philosophy 144, Logic and Philosophy
Teaching Fellow for Philosophy 7, Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
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Coursework
(*not taken for credit)
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s2014
f2013
s2013
f2012
s2012
f2011
s2011
f2010
s2010
f2009
*Plato, Russell Jones
*Greek Translation (Phaedo)
*Greek Translation (Physics)
*Knowledge & Abilities, Mark Richard
*The Philosophy of Aristotle—Metaphysics, John Cooper (at Princeton University)
*Euclid’s Elements, Books I and II, Benjamin Morison (at Princeton University)
*Greek Translation (De Anima) (at Princeton University)
*Aristotle and the Mind-Body Problem, David Charles (at Brown University)
*Greek Translation (Cratylus)
*Aristotle II—Posterior Analytics, David Bronstein (at Boston University)
*Plato on the Value of Knowledge, Russell Jones
*Greek Translation (Nicomachean Ethics, Ion)
*Frege, Russell, and the Early Wittgenstein, Warren Goldfarb
*Plato and Aristotle on Love and Friendship, Russell Jones
*Topics in Logic, Peter Koellner
*Greek Translation (Nicomachean Ethics)
Philosophy of Science, Peter Godfrey-Smith
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Ned Hall
Topics in Set Theory, Peter Koellner
*Aristotle on Truth and Meaning, Russell Jones
*Philosophy of Mathematics, Charles Parsons
*Logic Workshop
*Greek Translation (Charmides)
Set Theory: The Higher Infinite, Peter Koellner
British Empiricism, Alison Simmons
Aristotle: Ethics and Politics, Gisela Striker
*Logic Workshop
Ethics, Matt Boyle
Logic and Philosophy, Warren Goldfarb
Philosophy and the Exact Sciences, Peter Koellner
Practical Reasoning Seminar, Derek Parfit & Thomas Scanlon
*Plato: Symposium, David Elmer (Classics)
Causation: Now and Then, Ned Hall & Alison Simmons
Topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics, Peter Koellner
Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology, Gisela Striker
*Quine, Warren Goldfarb
Other Academic Work & Service
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ay 13-14
Departmental Writing Fellow (writing tutor for undergraduate philosophy students)
Coordinator for the Harvard Minorities And Philosophy (MAP) chapter
Research Assistant for Russell Jones
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ay 11-12
ay 10-11
ay 09-10
Translation of Descombes’ Héritez de vous-même, for Richard Moran
Philosophy graduate student representative
Graduate admissions coordinator
Coordinator for the Harvard Minorities And Philosophy (MAP) chapter
Research Assistant for Peter Koellner
Research Assistant for Russell Jones
Translation of Leibniz’s Demonstrationes Novae De Resistentia Solidorum, for Jeff McDonough
Philosophy graduate student representative
Organizer for the Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness project
Research Assistant for Peter Koellner
Research Assistant for Russell Jones
Organizer for the 2011 Mid Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar (MAMLS)
Harvard-MIT philosophy conference referee
Graduate admissions coordinator
Prizes & Awards
2014
2013
2012
2009
2007
2007
Bechtel Prize for best philosophy essay
Departmental Term Time Fellowship, Spring term (spent at Princeton University)
Certificate of distinction in teaching (for Logic and Philosophy)
Harvard Presidential Scholarship
Student Marshal (highest university honor)
Phi Beta Kappa
Languages
Native French, read Ancient Greek and Latin, proficient in German
This CV was generated in October 2014.
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