Employment Opportunities—Spring 2009
Position: Temporary Lecturer Positions
Dates: 2008-09 Academic Year
Responsibilities: Lecturers to teach:
PHIL 008: Spring
PHIL 008: Intro to Logic—Intro to Symbolic logic. Teaches how to distinguish, in a preciseway, valid deductive arguments from those that are invalid: includes learning to use logical symbolism, truth tables, and formal deductions.
PHIL 165: Spring
PHIL 165: Philosophy of Law—An inquiry into the nature of criminal law, the relation between law and morality, the nature of legal responsibility, and the obligation to obey the law.
PHIL 168: Spring
PHIL 168: Ethics and Families—An analysis of some of the ethical issues that arise in and with regard to families of different kinds.
PHIL 169G: Spring
PHIL 169G: Topics in Value Theory—Topics include political philosophy.
PHIL 135: Spring
PHIL 135: Philosophy of Psychology—Examines philosophical issues arising in the context of empirical psychology. Topics may include moral development, artificial intelligence and the modeling of cognition, the nature of perception and memory, fallacies in human reasoning, mechanisms of self-understanding, and mental illness and personhood.
Qualifications: Masters Degree or above. Preference will be given to applicants having previous teaching experience at the university level.
Salary: Remuneration is $4,766.96 per course
Letter of application must be submitted along with vita, teaching evaluations, and/or three (3) current letters of recommendation which address teaching experience. Please send these materials to:
Lecturer Selection Committee
Attn: John Fischer, Chair
Philosophy Department
University of California, Riverside
1604 Humanities Bldg.
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel. 951-827-5209
The Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action employer. Review of the applications will begin on February 13, 2009 and continue until position is filled.