Russell Marcus

Russell Marcus is a philosopher specializing in philosophy of mathematics and the pedagogy of philosophy. He is Chair of Philosophy at Hamilton College and president of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers.[1]

Education and career

Prior to his work in philosophy, Marcus taught mathematics and other subjects at high schools in New York City and Costa Rica.[1] He received his bachelor of arts in philosophy at Swarthmore College in 1988. He received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2007,[2] where he wrote his dissertation "Numbers without Science".[3] While at graduate school, he taught philosophy and mathematics at Queens College, Hofstra University and the College of Staten Island.[1][2] He began teaching at Hamilton College in 2007, later setting up the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy.[1] He gained tenure in 2016 and was appointed Chair of Philosophy in 2020.[2][4] In 2020, he won the American Philosophical Association's Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching which "recognizes a philosophy teacher who has had a profound impact on the student learning of philosophy in undergraduate and/or pre-college settings", being cited as an "important scholar of teaching and learning in philosophy" for his summer program and "inventive team-based pedagogies and exemplary scaffolded assignments".[1]

Books

  • Marcus, Russell (2015). Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-7313-8.[5]
  • Marcus, Russell; McEvoy, Mark, eds. (2016). An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4725-2534-5.[6]
  • Marcus, Russell (2017). Introduction to Formal Logic with Philosophical Applications. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-938648-2.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Marcus and Villanueva Win the 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching". American Philosophical Association. 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  2. ^ a b c Foster, Holly (2016-05-26). "Russell Marcus, Benjamin Widiss Granted Tenure". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  3. ^ Marcus, Russell (2007). Numbers without Science (PhD thesis). City University of New York – via PhilPapers.
  4. ^ Marcus, Russell. "Russell Marcus Curriculum Vitae". thatmarcusfamily.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
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Further reading