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Philosophy Department

Daniel Rothbart, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Associate Professor of
Conflict Analysis
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR)

Contact Information:
Office: Robinson Hall B461
Email: drothbar@gmu.edu
Phone: 703 993-1293
Homepage: http://mason.gmu.edu/~drothbar/CV.htm

Office Hours:
Thur | 3:00-4:30 | and by appointment

Spring 2008 Courses:

PHIL 391 Special Topics (3)
Philosophy, Conflict Theory, and Violence
Phil 391 003 | R | 4:30-7:10 | 16986

Summer 2008 Courses:

PHIL 309 Medicine & Human Values (3)
Prereq: Completion or concurrent enrollment in all other required general education courses
This course fulfills the University's synthesis requirement.

Phil 309 A01 | MTWR | 9:30-11:45 | 40490

Dr. Rothbart's Scholarship

Biosketch:
Dr. Daniel Rothbart received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. He was visiting research scholar at the University of Cambridge, Dartmouth College, and the University of Oxford, Linacre College. His areas of research include philosophy of science, health care ethics, and philosophy, science, and technology.

Dr. Rothbart has published articles in leading interdisciplinary journals and book chapters in important scholarly volumes. His book Explaining the Growth of Scientific Knowledge demonstrates the centrality of analogical modeling to scientific knowledge. In a forthcoming book Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work, Dr. Rothbart retrieves the seventeenth century notion of the philosophical instrument to offer an original interpretation of current experimental practices. His edited volumes include Science, Reason and Reality as well as Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown by Rom Harré.

His pedagogic accomplishments were recognized through the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award, given by the Provost of George Mason University in 2000. He has recently published, Philosophical Instruments, Minds and Tools at Work, University of Illinois Press.