Dennis Sepper, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981.
• M.A., University of Chicago, 1974
• B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1973

Undergraduate

• PHI 1301 Philosophy and the Ethical Life
• PHI 2323 Philosophy of Man
• PHI 3311 Philosophy of Being
• PHI 3327 Early Modern Philosophy
• PHI 3328 Recent Philosophy
• PHI 3351 Junior Seminar
• PHI 4331 Epistemology
• PHI 4335 Philosophy of Language
• HUSC 2101 Introduction to Human Sciences
• HUSC 2301 The World of the 21st Century
• HUSC 3311 Arts in Contemporary Culture
• HUSC 3312 Civilization of Science and Technology
• HUSC 3331 Foundations of the Human Sciences
• HUSC 4341 Tradition of Innovation

Graduate 

• PHI 5100 Proseminar
• PHI 5300 Philosophy of Language
• PHI 5309 Foundations of the Human Sciences
• PHI 5345 Philosophy of Technology
• PHI 6354 Philosophy of Language
• PHI 6377 Nature of Tradition
• PHI 6377 Selected Texts: Nietzsche
• PHI 6377 Rationalism & Empiricism
• PHI 7344 Kant and Idealism
• PHI 7344 Text Seminar: Descartes
• PHI 7344 Text Seminar: Kant
• PHI 8345 Philosophical Anthropology
• PHI 8380 Philosophy of Imagination
• IPS 8352 Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevski
• PHI 6352-01 Text Seminar: Nietzsche

Books

Understanding Imagination: The Reason of Images. (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 33). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2013.

Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

Newtons Optical Writings: A Guided Study. Masterworks of Discovery. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Goethe contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Articles

“Cognitive Pluralism as Obligation? In Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense,” 5 vols., edited by Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, et al. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress 2010. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2013.

“Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining." In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 156-176. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

“Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination.” In A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan Nelson, 322342. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

“Goethe and the Poetics of Science.” Janus Head 8, no. 1 (Summer 2005): 207-227.

“Phenomenology” and “Mind-Body Problems,” in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, edited by John L. Heilbron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

“Prospero and the Times of Reading,” in Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context: Selected Essays for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, edited by Bainard Cowan and Scott Lee. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002, 83-87.

“The Texture of Thought: Why Descartes' Meditationes is Meditational, and Why It Matters,” in Descartes' Natural Philosophy, edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton. London: Routledge, 2000, 736-750.