Photo of Alice Sowaal Dec 2007


Alice Sowaal
Assistant Professor
asowaal@sfsu.edu
Humanitites 443
(415) 338-3137






San Francisco State University
College of Humanities
Department of Philosophy
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132












Courses in Philosophy

101: Introduction to Philosophy
303: Modern Philosophy
365: Science and Civilization
382: Women and Philosophy: Philosophy of Feminism
605: Metaphysics
770: Descartes
772: Seminar in Locke
795: Early Modern Philosophy


Publications

* "Review of Patricia Springborg. Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination," Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)

* "Mary Astell's Serious Proposal: Mind, Method, and Custom," in Philosophy Compass (2007)

* "Idealism and Cartesian Motion," in Companion to Rationalism (2005)
  

* "Mary Astell," in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005/8)

* "Cartesian Bodies," in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2004)


Research Interests

Early Modern Philosophy
History of Rationalist Thought
Feminist History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Professional Associations

American Philosophical Association
The Society for Women in Philosophy
National Women's Studies Association
Leibniz Society of America






08/11/2005