Ryan Hickerson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, OR  97361
USA
Ryan Hickerson
 
Ryan’s Office:  Bellamy Hall (HSS), Rm. 322
 
Office Hours, Winter 2010:

Wednesdays: 12:00-5:00pm

 
E-mail:
hickersr@wou.edu
ryan.hickerson@alumni.carleton.edu
 
Telephone:  (503-83)8-8762
Fax:  (503-83)8-8056
 
Current Courses: 

PHL199 -- Philosophy Discussion

PHL208H – Honors Philosophy, Medieval to Enlightenment

PHL314 – Modern European Philosophy

PHL406 -- Intermediate Logic

Past Courses:
PHL101 – Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
PHL102 – Introduction to Philosophy: Personal Morality and Social Justice

PHL103 -- Introduction to Philosophy: Logic

PHL207H – Honors Philosophy, Ancient to Medieval

PHL209H – Honors Philosophy, Enlightenment to Present
PHL251 -- Ethics
PHL261 – Metaphysics

PHL262 -- Epistemology

PHL311 – Ancient Philosophy

PHL313 -- Medieval Philosophy
PHL316 – Contemporary Philosophy
PHL323 -- Continental Philosophy
PHL350 -- Social and Political Philosophy
PHL360 -- Philosophy of Education
PHL398 – Philosophy of Technology
PHL398 -- Social Contract Theory
PHL399 – Personal Identity
PHL399 – Phenomenology
PHL399 -- 19th Century Philosophy

PHL399 -- German Idealism

PHL406 -- Emerson

PHL406 -- Boethius

PHL406 -- Inductive Logic

 

Work in Progress:

"The Phenomenology of Judgement" (with Wayne Martin)

A Feeling for Knowing:  Essays in the Phenomenology of Belief

"Whence Kantian Empirical Concepts?"
 
Publications:
"Neglecting the Question of Being: Heidegger's Argument Against Husserl" (Inquiry, 52:6, 2009) 
“Twardowski and Representationalism” (Baltic Intl. Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 4, 2008)
“Knowing How to Possibly Act” (Philosophical Psychology, 20:4, 2007)
The History of Intentionality: Theories of Consciousness from Brentano to Husserl (Continuum, 2007)
"Getting the Quasi-Picture" (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 43:4, 2005)

"An Indirect Defense of Direct Realism" (Journal of Mind and Behavior, 25:1, 2004)

 

 

Husserl at his desk