Michael Griffin
Curriculum Vitae
Recent Courses

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Zrinyi u. 14, 1051 Budapest, Hungary.

Phone: 36-1-327-3000, ext. 2557. Fax: 36-1-327-3072. E-mail: griffinm@ceu.hu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, December 1997.
    Dissertation: "St. Thomas, Molina, and Leibniz on Divine Providence and Foreknowledge."
    Advisors: Edwin M. Curley (Chair), Robert C. Sleigh Jr., Daniel Garber
  • B.A. with Honors in Philosophy, University of Vermont, May 1990.

Areas of Specialization

Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval and Late Scholastic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion.

Areas of Competence

Kant, Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Mathematical Logic, Epistemology.

Positions

  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Fall 2002.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Spring 2003.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, 1999-2002.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998-1999.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997-1998.
  • Visiting Graduate Fellow and Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1996-1997.
  • Visiting Graduate Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, 1995-1996.
  • Visiting Scholar in the Institute for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994-1995

Publications

  • "Leibniz on God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals," The Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 317-343.

Presentations

  • "Leibniz’s Ontological Argument," International Conference on the Young Leibniz, Rice University, Houston, April 2003.
  • "The Ontological Argument and the Creation of the Eternal Truths," Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, June 2002.
  • "The Ontological Argument and the Creation of the Eternal Truths," and "Leibniz on Possible Worlds," University of Virginia, February 2002.
  • Comments on M. Rosa Antognazza, "Trinity and Incarnation: The Relationship between Philosophy and Revealed Theology in Leibniz’s Thought," Leibniz Society of North America Meeting, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, March 2001.
  • "Leibniz on Possible Worlds," University of Miami, February 2000.
  • "Leibniz on God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals," Rutgers University, February 1998.
  • "Leibniz on God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals," University of Colorado, January 1998.

Awards

  • University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994-1995.
  • John Dewey Prize, Department of Philosophy, University of Vermont, 1990.
  • NEH Younger Scholars Award, Summer 1989. Project: Autonomy and Moral Evil: A Problem in Kantian Ethics. Advisor: Derk Pereboom.

Professional Activities

  • Articles referee for The Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
  • Manuscript referee for Mayfield Publishing Company.
  • External Honors Program Examiner for the Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Spring 2002.
  • Chair, Symposium on Malebranche and Chinese Philosophy, APA Pacific Division, March 2002.
  • Organizer of a speaker series on Spinoza and Leibniz, Wake Forest, Fall Semester, 2000.
  • Conference Organizer, Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Wake Forest, November, 2000.
  • Moderator, Utilitarianism 2000 Conference, Wake Forest University, March 2000.
  • Conference Organizer, Intermountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 1998.
  • Chair, Symposium on Spinoza and Leibniz, APA Central Division, Chicago, May 1996.
  • Research Assistant to Professor Edwin Curley in the preparation of the Hackett edition of Hobbes's Leviathan, Summer 1993.

Teaching Experience (other than Introduction)

  • Dissertation Examiner (Colorado)
  • Honors Thesis Advisor (Colorado, Wake Forest).
  • Graduate Seminar on Leibniz and Locke (Illinois at Chicago, Central European University).
  • Graduate Seminar on Continental Rationalism (Central European University)
  • Graduate Seminar on the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence (Virginia, Spring 2003)
  • Undergraduate Seminar on Spinoza and Leibniz (Wake Forest).
  • Undergraduate Seminar on Locke, Berkeley and Hume (Virginia, Spring 2003).
  • Undergraduate Seminar on Kant (Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest).
  • Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (Wake Forest).
  • Metaphysics (Illinois at Chicago).
  • History of Modern Philosophy (Wake Forest, Colorado, Illinois at Chicago, Virginia).
  • Philosophy of Religion (Colorado, Notre Dame).
  • Logic (Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest).
  • Reasoning (University of Illinois at Chicago).
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