Peter LeGrant

University of Iowa

254 English-Philosophy Building

Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408

peter-legrant@uiowa.edu

Area of Specialization:

History of Modern Philosophy

Areas of Competence:

Ethics, History of Ancient Philosophy

EDUCATION:

· Doctor of Philosophy Candidate – University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. August 2002 to present.

· Master of Arts – Philosophy - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. Earned August 2001.

· Bachelor of Arts – Philosophy – Millikin University, Decatur, IL. Earned May, 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (most recent first):

· Adjunct instructor – Kirkwood Community College – (spring 2007 to present), Basic Reasoning, Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy

· Teaching Assistant – University of Iowa - Introduction to Philosophy (fall 2004 to spring 2008), prepared syllabus and exams, lectured. Principles of Reasoning (fall 2008)

· Teaching Assistant – University of Iowa – for Philosophy and the Just Society (Richard Fumerton, fall 2002 and spring 2004), Philosophy of Human Nature (Thomas Williams, spring 2003 and fall 2003), led Friday discussion sections, graded exams and papers, prepared review sessions.

· Teaching Assistant – Northern Illinois University – for Rhetoric and Composition I and II (fall 2001, spring 2002). Lectured, prepared and graded paper assignments and exam, conducted service learning, taught students how to use Webboard, Netscape Composer, and Microsoft Word.

· Teaching Assistant – Northern Illinois University – for Introduction to Philosophy course (Michael Gelvin, fall 1999 and Tomis Kapitan, spring 2001), Introduction to Logic (Edgar Boedeker, spring 1999), and Introduction to Ethics (Randy Cagle, fall 2000). Tutored students, held review sessions for tests, graded homework and tests.

· Part-time Instructor – Kishwaukee Community College, Malta, Illinois – taught Introduction to Philosophy course (fall 2000, spring 2001). Prepared syllabus, web page, homework, and exams; lectured.

· Teaching Assistant – Millikin University – for Introduction to Philosophy (spring 1997), earned credit for preparation and delivery of presentation/lecture throughout semester. Paid for tutoring students on class content.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

· James F. Jakobsen/Graduate Student Senate Forum, University of Iowa, March 26^th and 27^th, 2004. “On the Shock Persuasion of Section 66 in Wittgenstein’s Investigations,” earned Honorable Mention prize.

· University of Iowa Student Government/Graduate Student Senate travel award, Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 18^th—19^th, 2005.

· James F. Jakobsen/Graduate Student Senate Forum, University of Iowa, April 29^th, 2005. “A Defense of Spinoza’s Account of Error Against Bennett’s Criticisms,” earned Honorable Mention prize.

· Research Assistant – University of Iowa, (to David Cunning, Summer 2005).

· University of Iowa Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, certificate and $1000 award, May 3^rd, 2007.

PRESENTATIONS:

· Illinois Philosophical Association, November 2^nd, 2001. “Kant and Sensible Signs.”

· Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 22^nd and 23^rd, 2002. “Kant and Sensible Signs”

· Columbia/New York University Graduate Conference, March 30^th and 31^st, 2002. “Kant and Sensible Signs.”

· Midwest Conference on Film, Language and Literature, April 5^th—7^th, 2002. “The Kantian Aspects of Wallace Stevens’s Poetry.”

· Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media, March 28^th—29^th, 2003. “A New Look at the Lemon Soap in Ulysses.”

· Illinois Philosophical Association, November 8^th and 9^th, 2003. “You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself? I Doubt It. Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge.”

· Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 20^th—21^st, 2004. “You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself? I Doubt It. Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge”

· James F. Jakobsen/Graduate Student Senate Forum, University of Iowa, March 26^th and 27^th, 2004. “On the Shock Persuasion of Section 66 in Wittgenstein’s Investigations.”

· University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society In-House Conference, University of Iowa, May 1^st, 2004. “On a Fundamental Incoherence in Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking”

· Illinois Philosophical Association, November 5^th—6^th, 2004. “Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge II: The Interpretive Problem of Nicomachean Ethics 9.9.5”

· Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 18^th—19^th, 2005. “A Defense of Spinoza’s Account of Error Against Bennett’s Attacks.”

· James F. Jakobsen/Graduate Student Senate Forum, University of Iowa, April 29^th, 2005. “A Defense of Spinoza’s Account of Error Against Bennett’s Criticisms.”

· Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 24^th—25^th, 2006. “Nietzsche’s Approaches to Prehistory in the Genealogy of Morals.”

· Iowa Philosophical Association, September 23^rd, 2006. “An Examination of Cook’s Account of Spinoza on Emended Imaginings.”

· Illinois Philosophical Association, November 3^rd-4^th, 2006. “Against Cohen’s Objections to Korsgaard’s Account of Practical Identity”

· Colloquium at St. Cloud State University, April 26^th, 2007. "Spinoza's Containment Thesis: Are Our Ideas Numerically Identical with God's?"

COMMENTATOR

· Commentary on Ron Wilburn’s “The Pragmatic Value of Pragmatic Values,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 22^nd and 23^rd, 2002.

· Commentary on Arthur Morton’s “Ideas and the Meaning of Intelligibility in Early Modern Critiques,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 18^th and 19^th, 2005.

· Commentary on Will Smith’s “Subjective Truth in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 24^th—25^th, 2006.

· Commentary on Johannes Bulhof’s “Cartesian Stoicism,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 23^rd and 24^th, 2007.

· Comments on Chris Johns’ “Leibniz on the ‘Efficient Cause’ of Natural Law,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February 22^nd and 23^rd, 2008.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

· American Philosophical Association 2004—present

· Illinois Philosophical Association 2001—present

· Iowa Philosophical Society fall 2006--present

· University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society, spring 2004—present.

· COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students), Iowa chapter, August 2002—present.

GRADUATE COURSES TAKEN:

Northern Illinois University

· Intermediate Logic, David Buller

· Kant, Michael Gelven

· History of Philosophy—Presocratics, James Dye

· Theories and Problems of Knowledge, Harold Brown

· Contemporary Ethical Theory, Sharon Sytsma

· Directed Reading—Wittgenstein, Edgar Boedeker

· Special Studies and Research—Aesthetics, William Tolhurst

· Major Philosophers—Hume, James T. King

· Aesthetics, Gelven

· Special Studies and Research—Aristotle, James Dye

· Special Studies and Research—Kant’s Ethics, Sytsma

· Special Studies and Research—Modern Rationalists, David Cunning

· Special Studies and Research—Metaphysics, Tomis Kapitan

· History of the Enlightenment, Dye

University of Iowa

· Epistemology, Richard Fumerton

· Modal Logic, Gregory Landini

· Kant, David Stern

· Rational Agency, Sarah Buss

· Metaphysics, Panayot Butchvarov

· Spinoza and Leibniz, David Cunning

· Aristotle’s Ethics, Thomas Williams

· History of Ethics, Williams

· Wittgenstein, David Stern

· Nietzsche, Laird Addis

· Mathematical Logic, Landini

SERVICE:

· Graduate Student Representative, University of Iowa, June 2004—May 2005.

· Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa. Department Representative: fall 2005—present. Social Committee co-chair: fall 2006—present.

TEACHING EVALUATIONS:

The data come from the summative evaluation of the instructor. The scale for the responses to the questions below ranges from 1 to 6, with 1 being “strongly disagree” and 6 being “strongly agree.”

Semester	Course	# of students responding	Class time is used efficiently	Instructor seems interested in teaching course	I am encouraged to participate in discussion	This course is intellectually stimulating	Adequate time for questions is provided	Concepts are presented in manner that helps me learn	I would recommend a course taught by this instructor to other students
Fall 2005, University of Iowa	Introduction to Philosophy	25	5.6 (mean)	5.88	5.56	5.72	5.68	5.56	5.72
Spring 2006, University of Iowa	Introduction to Philosophy	24	5.5	5.75	5.5	5.83	5.46	5.13	5.71
Fall 2006, University of Iowa	Introduction to Philosophy	24	5.25	5.83	5.42	5.79	5.63	5.21	5.42