brian beakley

full professor
philosophy department
eastern illinois university
charleston il 61920

office: 3536 coleman hall
phone: (217) 581 3964
email: bbeakley (at) eiu (dot) edu

education:
b.a. philosophy: university of pittsburgh
visiting scientist: mit linguistics
phd. philosophy: suny stony brook

research:
  • philosophy of mind
  • history of psychology
  • linguistics
  • history of philosophy

    • further research interests:
  • logic
  • models of explanation

    • courses taught:
    introduction to philosophy
    logical and critical reasoning
    language and human nature
    modern philosophy
    philosophy of mind
    philosophy of science
    symbolic logic
    necessity possibility & existence

    note to students:
    class web pages have moved to webct

    philosophy 1900 students taking my "technology delivered" course
    (section 3 in fall 2008)
    can click here to get information on the course, and on webct in general


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    this page created  may 25 2001
    last updated october 5 2008


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