Faculty & Staff

	Tom Cook (Department Chair) - Professor of Philosophy. At Rollins since 1982. B.A. Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Research interests: 17th century philosophy (esp. Spinoza); Philosophy of Mind; Moral Psychology. Courses: Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy; Logic; Philosophy in Literature.   tcook@Rollins.edu Personal Web Page
	Mario D’Amato - Assistant Professor of Religion.  At Rollins since 2005.  B.A., Loyola University Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Research interests: Buddhist Philosophy and Textual Studies; Philosophy of Religion; Semiotics (Theory of Signs). Courses: Asian Religions, Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Psychology of Religion, Religion and Film.
	Creston Davis - Assistant Professor of Religion.  At Rollins since 2006.  B.A., Calvin College; M.T.S., Duke University; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research interests:  Philosophical and Political Theology; Psychoanalysis, Theology & Culture; French and Italian Philosophy. Courses: Search for Meaning, Christianity, New Testament, Islam, Religion and Culture, Religion in America, Postmodernism, What is 'Truth'?.
	Hoyt Edge - Dean of the Faculty from 2006. Hugh F. and Jeanette G. McKean Chair and Professor of Philosophy. At Rollins since 1970. B.A. Stetson University; M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University. Research interests: Philosophical Psychology, Cognitive Anthropology, Philosophical implications of Parapsychology. Courses: Cross-Cultural Concepts of Self; Philosophy of Mind; Existentialism; American Philosophy.   hedge@Rollins.edu Personal Web Page
	Yudit Greenberg - Professor of Religion and Coordinator of Jewish Studies Program. At Rollins since 1986. B.A. California State University at Hayward, M.A., San Fransisco State University, Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union. Research interests: The philosophy of Rosenzweig; Concepts of love, eros, the body, and forgiveness in Jewish thought. Courses: Jewish Life and Thought; Religion and the Body; Women and Religion; Modern and Contemporary Jewish thought.   Jewish Studies Program
	Margaret McLaren - George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Chair and Professor of Philosophy. At Rollins since 1992. B.Phil., Miami University (Ohio); M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Research interests: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Gender issues, Identity and Subjectivity, Ethical theory. Courses: Ethics; Feminist Theory; Foucault Seminar; Social and Political Philosophy.   Curriculum Vitae
	L. Ryan Musgrave - Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. At Rollins since 2002. B.A. with Honors Mary Washington College (VA); M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University. Research Interests: Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist Theory. Courses: Ethics (theoretical and applied); Aesthetics; Sociopolitical and Legal Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy.   rmusgrave@Rollins.edu
	Scott Rubarth - George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Scholar in Classical Studies and Associate Professor of Classical Philosophy.  At Rollins since 1997. B.A. Los Angeles Baptist College; B.A., M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., Collaborative Program in Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, University of Toronto. Research interests: Ancient Philosophy and Science, Stoicism, Philosophy of Media. Courses: Early Western Philosophy, The Pursuit of the Good Life (Classsical Ethics), Argumentation and Media Manipulation. srubarth@Rollins.edu
	Eric Smaw - Assistant Professor of Philosophy. At Rollins since 2006.  B.A. Pennsylvania State University; M.A. in Philosophy of Science and African Philosophy Ohio University, M.A. in the History of Philosophy University of Kentucky, Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Research Interests: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Human Rights. Courses: Logic, Philosophy of Science, African Philosophy, History of Philosophy (17th-19th Century).