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- Courses Summer Fall Spring
- OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Bana Bashour
- PUBLICATIONS Bana Bashour
- Hans Muller Chairperson DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS
- PERSONNEL Faculty Members
- Lecturers and Instructors (Part-time)
- Research Assistants
- Graduate Assistants
- Summer ‘15 Fall Semester Spring Semester
- 3. Student Enrollment in Courses
- Total 2723
- Courses Summer ‘15 Fall Spring
- Total 351
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Student Enrollment in Courses
Number of Credit Hours Offered
Bana Bashour 1. “A View of Moral Responsibility.” Completed. 2. “Why We Have No Reason to Believe in the Principle of Alternate Possibility.” Completed. 3. “Evaluating Intentional States.” Close to completion. 4. “Against the Davidsonian Theory of Action” (co-authored with Hans Muller). Close to Completion. Ray Brassier 1. “The Metaphysics of Sensation: Psychological Nominalism and the Reality of Consciousness, ” in Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism and Realism, Patrick J. Reider (ed.), Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming. 2. “Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines: Form and Function in A Thousand Plateaus,” in A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy, ed. Henry Somers-Hall, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming. Chris Johns 1. “Leibniz and Locke on Moral Doctrine as a Demonstrable Science. ” This article had been sent to the Journal of the History of Philosophy. It was subsequently rejected. It is now in the process of being revised. 2. “The Retrospective Future: Evidence that the Future Will Resemble the Past?” This paper is an attempt to circumvent the problem of induction, by arguing that, within a shift in temporal perspective, we have good evidence that the future will resemble the past. 3. “The Two Sources of Knowledge in Kant and Leibniz.” This paper, which was presented at the APA in January of 2016, argues that Kant’s criticism of Leibniz on sensible cognition has a different basis than is supposed in the literature on the issue. I am working on developing this paper into an article. 4. I began developing a prospectus for a critical guide to Leibniz’ Discourse on Metaphysics. Bashshar Haydar 1. “Debunking Moral Intuitions: Hypocrisy and the Duty of Assistance.” Under review at Ethics. 2. “Benefiting from Harm: A Hybrid View”. This essay argues that the offered accounts of the moral implications of benefiting from injustice or misfortune are deficient. The essay argues that there are two distinct and morally independent bases for beneficiaries to disgorge all or part of benefits accruing from harm inflicted on other.
2. “The Disposition-Event Distinction in Action Theory” (with Bana Bashour). In progress. 3. “Phenomenal Properties: Deflationism without Eliminativism.” In progress. 5. “Adam Smith and the Specter of Schadenfreude.” In progress. 6. “Dennett on the Appearance-Reality Distinction in Consciosness.” In progress.
2. “No Time for the Hamiltonian Constraint”. Among other things, this paper argues that the Hamiltonian constraint does not govern time in LQG. This article is written but not yet ready for submission. 3. “Loop Quantum Ontology: spacetime and spin-networks”. This article explores the ontology of LQG. I have received a “revise and resubmit.” I will modify this document in light of the referee’s comments but do not plan on resubmitting. 4. “Incubating a Future Metaphysics: quantum gravity”. This article argues that quantum theories of gravity place pressure on current metaphysics and are useful for distilling metaphysical reality from conceptual prejudice. This article is in process. Patrick Lewtas 1. “Panpsychism, Emergentism and the Metaphysics of Causation.” Forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 2. “Building Minds: Solving the combination problem.” Revise and resubmit under review at Inquiry. 3. “The Impossibility of Emergent Conscious Causal Powers.” Revise and resubmit under review at Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 4. “Passive Causation: Making interactionism work.” Under review at Dialectica. 5. “What happens when something happens? An argument about causation.” Under review at Mind. 6. “The Unity of Powers-based Causal Accounts.” Partly written. 7. “Epistemic Gaps: When things don’t look the way we want them.” Partly written. 8. “The Sourcing Rule: A Better Principle of Sufficient Reason.” Partly written. Waddah Nasr Rescuing Philosophy. Research leading to the writing of a book (in Arabic) on the nature of philosophy with a focus on the potential role that philosophy could play, if properly understood, in contributing to the resolution of the intellectual and cultural crises which Arabic societies are currently experiencing.
Bana Bashour 1. Departement Chair, Philosophy, Summer, 2015, Fall 2015/2016. 2. Member, FAS Dean Search Committee, Fall and Spring 2015-2016. 3. Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment, Summer 2016. 4. FAS Representative on the University Senate 2015-2017. 5. Committee Member and co-founder of Association for the Study of the Mind in the Middle East and North Africa. 6. Member, American Philosophical Association. 7. Member, AUB Choral Society. 8. Committee Member, MA thesis, Rana Al-Bizri, Spring 2016. 9. Presented “A View of Moral Responsibility” at AUB’s Philosophy Student Society, and NYU Abu Dhabi conference, February 2016. 10. Presented “Evaluating Intentional States” at AUB’s CVSP Colloquium. 11. Attended Central APA in March 2016, Pacific APA in April 2016, New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility in November 2015 and Workshop on Metaethics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in October 2015, and a symposium entitled “Does Neuroscience Have Normative Implications” at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession in Chicago in April 2016.
2. Respondent, Wilfrid Sellars Society: Author Meets Critics: Danielle Macbeth Realizing Reason, Pacific APA, San Francisco, 31 March 2016. 3. Gave a seminar for MA in Aesthetics and Politics, CalArts, 29 March 2016. 4. MA thesis supervisor: Rana Al Bizri “From Normative Commitment to Existential Commitment: Heidegger and Brandom.” Defended 2 May 2016. 5. Member of FAS Advisory Committee. 6. Chair of promotion committee for Dr. Lina Choueiri. 7. Member of promotion committee for Dr. Courtney Fugate. 8. Member of reappointment committee for Dr. Robert Myers. Chris Johns 1. Began advising graduate Asma Ayoubi on her MA thesis. 2. Presented “The Two Sources of Knowledge in Kant and Leibniz at the APA, Washington, DC, January 2016. 3. Continued serving on the General Education Committee, evaluating courses. 4. Continued serving as Freshman advisor, fall and spring semester. 5. Continued serving as philosophy major advisor for the year.
2. Member, Steering Committee for the Center of Arts and Humanities. 3. Member, University Task Force for the Implementation of Tenure.
2. Member, AUB Faculty Senate 3. Member, FAS Administrative Committee 4. Chair, Department Subcomittee on Program Learning Outcomes 5. File Reader, FAS Freshman Admissions Program 6. Primary Faulty Organizer, Infinite Jest Philosophy Graduate Student Conference (May 12-13, 2016) Joshua Norton 1. Advised the master’s thesis of Fidaa Chehayeb, philosophy graduate student. 2. Gave the talk, “Science is a god of facts and myths”. Philosophy club, AUB, February 2016. 3. Gave the talk, “No time for the Hamiltonian constraint”. AUB brown bag, March 2016. 4. Gave the talk, “The nature of knowledge and reason.” IDEA, Beirut, March 2016. 5. Gave the talk “Lessons in Metaphysics from Quantum Theories of Gravity,” at New Trends in Metaphysics of Science. Sorbonne, Paris, December 2015. 6. Gave the talk “Spin-networks as Real as Spacetime,” at Fourth International
7. Will give the talk “No Time for the Hamiltonian Constraint,” at International Association for the Philosophy of Time. Winston-Salem, NC, USA, June 2016 8. Will participate on the panel discussion: “Is time (or space-time) fundamental according to theories of quantum gravity?” at International Association for the Philosophy of Time. Winston-Salem, NC, USA, June 2016 along with Alyssa Ney (UC-Davis), Tiziana Vistarini (Colorado), and Christian Wüthrich (Geneva). Patrick Lewtas 1. Advised the masters thesis of Mohammad Bazzy, philosophy graduate student. 2. Gave the talk, “The Unity of Powers-based Causal Accounts”, at Powers, Dispositions and the New Essentialism, a conference at AUB, April 2016. 3. Referee for Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 4. Referee for Dialogue. 5. Referee for Topoi. 6. Referee for Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 7. Member, FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee 8. Member, FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee. 9. Philosophy department textbook coordinator. 10. Philosophy department minutes-taker. 11. Gave a talk to the Philosophy department on preparing cases for submission to the FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee. 12. Wrote two teaching observation letters about Philosophy department faculty/instructors. Waddah Nasr 1. Member, Promotion Committee on the application of Dr. Chris Johns. 2. Member, MA Thesis Committee for Ms. Fidaa Chehayeb. 3. Member, University Faculty Senate. 4. Member, Medical Center Ethics Committee. 5. Member, Advisory Committee for the Center of Teaching and Learning. 6. Member, Lebanese National Consultative Committee on Biomedical Ethics.
Bana Bashour
Ramzi Mabsout), Review of Social Economy (Published online April 2016; forthcoming in print). Ray Brassier 1. “Transcendental Logic and True Representings,” Glass Bead Journal, Site 0: Castalia, The Game of Ends and Means’, February 2016. 2. “Le plus de noirceur, le plus d’éclat: l’inhumanité de Guyotat,” Critique, No. 824-825, January-February 2016. Hans Muller 1. “Ethics, Emotions and Theology: A Humean Investigation,” in Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World?, ed. Dirk Evers, et al., pp. 283-297. Springer Publishing, 2016. Joshua Norton 1. “Weak Discernibility and Relations Between Quanta,” Philosophy of Science, Vol. 82, No. 5 (December 2015): 1188-1199.
The department is still hoping to fill a position in Islamic Philosophy. That line was approved by the administration four years ago and we conducted a search during the 2012-2013 academic year. We have been told that negotiations to finalize that search effort are still ongoing. We note that our external examiners specifically identified Islamic Philosophy and the Philosophy of Science as areas in which we needed curricular coverage. We successfully recruited and hired a specialist in the Philosophy of Science last year. So moving on to fill the line in Islamic Philosophy is a matter of complying with directives coming from our most recent program review. The department plans to continue its tradition of strong faculty mentoring. We note that our newest department member, Dr. Joshua Norton (the philosopher of science referenced above) has had a solid first year: he’s off to a good start with publishing his research and both the report from his peer teaching observation and his student teaching evaluations are quite strong. Our second newest member, Dr. Christopher Johns, has just been promoted from the rank of Assistant to Associate Professor. Both of these developments are indications that the department’s mentoring efforts are proving to be effective. Hans Muller Chairperson DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Physics Department continues to have a large number of students that amounts to 2723 in 2015. The majority of these students though wish to have a degree in Engineering and the rest join our graduate program which currently has 24 students enlisted. Furthermore, our PhD program remains attractive to excellent students; we presently have 6 enrolled working in various areas of Theoretical Physics. During this year, the Physics Department went on organizing the Lab space for the professors. Dr. Kazan cleared room 105, dedicated to Dr. Isber and a new one was set-up for him in room 106. We are currently in process of having a space dedicated to our computational activity in room 308. In collaboration with our PhD students a series of seminars were organized with up to 12 speakers in areas mainly in Physics. We also hosted several visitors, namely, Dr. Bruyant from France, Drs. Mroueh and Fraine from the USA as well as Dr. Edgar Choueiri from Princeton University for the FAS 150th anniversary. Dr. Charbel Madi, who joined us from Harvard University in 2014, continued with us for one more year as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Dr. Sabra continues to be the head of CAMS and Dr. Tabbal serves as Associate Dean and Dr. Christidis advises the Dean on laboratory issues. The Physics Department website was updated to include current deadlines for the various applications as well as an update about our activities. The past year has witnessed the graduation of one PhD students, Ms. A. Al-Sayegh. A gathering was organized in order to bring the students and faculty together. The department of physics has continued its activities related to the assessment of its program learning outcomes. By the end of the 2015-2016 academic year, it will have completed its second three-year assessment plan. The first one was completed in 2013. Results from the assessment will be shared and discussed with the Physics Faculty members in the next Fall semester. Possible curricular changes may be considered, if deemed necessary by the physics faculty. Following the PLO assessment of 2014-2015, the requirement for the BS in Physics was broadened to include PHYS 211/211L which could be taken instead of PHYS 210/210L.
Faculty Members
Lecturers and Instructors (Part-time) Summer 2015
Spring Semester
Research Assistants Summer 2015
Fall Semester
Spring Semester
Graduate Assistants Fall Semester
Spring Semester
Non-Academic Staff Abi Falah, Jumana Administrative Officer Al-Ghawi, Simon Senior Technician Issa, Wassim Chief Technician Majdalani, Elissar Lab Manager Melki, Elie Chief Technician
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
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