Philosophy
Tom Brommage is a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2007-2008 academic
year. He has just finished his Ph.D. at
the University of South Florida in Tampa on Wittgenstein's early
philosophy. He is primarily interested
in the history of early analytic philosophy, especially Wittgenstein, Russell
and the Vienna Circle--but
also has research and teaching interests also interested in critical social
theory (especially Marxism), Hegel and the Idealist tradition, and contemporary
Continental philosophy. Mr. Brommage
also has research interests in the philosophy of language, particularly
semantic normativity and social theories of language, as well as
meta-philosophical issues about methodology in the history and historiography
of philosophy.
This Fall Mr. Brommage will be teaching Honors Introduction to Philosophy,
Social and Political Philosophy, and Logic.