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Dr. Nathan Lauffer

“Hey! I鈥檓 Nate聽Lauffer. I got my PhD in philosophy at Northwestern University in July 2024. My area of specialization is epistemology, and I have competence in ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, logic, and political philosophy. This fall I鈥檒l be teaching language, logic, and persuasion as well as philosophy of religion. If I鈥檓 not writing a philosophy paper, reading philosophy, or doing course prep, then I鈥檓 probably playing basketball or doing something travel-related (I love exploring new places!).”

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Dr.Aaron Wells

My teaching specialties include the history of philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. My research focuses on European philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Some recent or forthcoming articles are “Du Ch芒telet, Induction, and Newton鈥檚 Rules for Reasoning” (in the聽European Journal of Philosophy), “Lambert on Moral Certainty and the Justification of Induction” (in聽Inquiry), “Magnitude, Matter, and Kant’s Principle of Mechanism” (in the聽Kant Yearbook), and “The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Early Modern Philosophy of Science: Leibniz, Du Ch芒telet, and Euler” (in聽The Principle of Sufficient Reason: a History, edited by Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca for the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series). In current research, I am looking into how the relationship between mathematics and science was understood by modern philosophers such as Christian Wolff and Emilie Du Ch芒telet.