Mark Webb's Homepage
 
 

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Or, if you prefer, Mark Webb as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream:

(That's  Eva Dadlez  of the University of Central Oklahoma, as Oberon, on the right).
 
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Or, perhaps, Mark Webb posing with his patroness, the (ironically headless) goddess Epistêmê, in Ephesus.


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Professor Webb, the chairman of the Philosophy Department, received both his B.A. in philosophy and his two M.A. degrees, one in philosophy and the other in Classical Humanities, from Texas Tech  and Ph.D. in Philosophy from  Syracuse University  in 1991. In 2006, he earned a postgraduate certificate in Buddhist Studies from Sunderland University.  He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of religion. He is currently working on the epistemology of religious experience, especially in non-Western religions. Mark Webb's CV (in pdf)  is available online.
 
 

:index_files:image008.png  Professor Webb is also faculty advisor for the Double T fencing club,

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Representative Publications:

 

Professor Webb's articles have appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies, The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Hypatia. His articles include:

 

“Perfect Being Theology,”in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed., Blackwell Publishing, Paul Draper and Charles Taliaferrro, eds.

 

“Meeting Others in the Space of Reasons: Fallibilism for Sellarsians,” in Michael P. Wolf and Mark Norris Lance, eds.,  The Self-Correcting Enterprise: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Poznán Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol 92 (New York: Rodopi, 2006)

 

“Can Epistemology Help? The Problem of the Kentucky-Fried Rat,” Social Epistemology 18 (2004), 51-58.

 

(with Heidi Grasswick) Feminist Epistemology as Social Epistemology, a special issue of Social Epistemology, September 2002.

 

“Trust, Tolerance, and the Concept of a Person,” Public Affairs Quarterly 1997; 11(4), 415-429.

 

“Feminist Epistemology and the Extent of the Social,” Hypatia 1995; 10(3), 85-98.

 

“Natural Theology and the Concept of Perfection in Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz,” Religious Studies 1989; 25(4),459-475.

 

 

 

Contact Information:

 

Phone: (806) 742-3275, extension 323

Email:  mark.webb@ttu.edu
 

 

 

Spring 2012: No teaching assignment



Previous Semesters:

 

 Fall 2011:

 

            PHIL 3302, Asian Philosophy

                        Syllabus

                        Links to Asian Philosophy Resources

                        Online readings for week 1




 


 

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