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
- "Marcus and Villanueva Win the 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching". American Philosophical Association. 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- Foster, Holly (2016-05-26). "Russell Marcus, Benjamin Widiss Granted Tenure". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- Marcus, Russell (2007). Numbers without Science (PhD thesis). City University of New York – via PhilPapers.
- Marcus, Russell. "Russell Marcus Curriculum Vitae". thatmarcusfamily.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- Reviews:
- Baker, Alan (2016). "Review of Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument". Philosophia Mathematica. 24 (3): 422–424. doi:10.1093/philmat/nkw017. ISSN 0031-8019.
- Danne, Nicholas (2017). "Review of Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument". Metaphilosophy. 48 (4): 591–594. doi:10.1111/meta.12250. ISSN 1467-9973.
- Reviews:
- Kim, Seahwa (2017). "Review of An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 95 (4): 831. doi:10.1080/00048402.2016.1254264. ISSN 0004-8402. S2CID 172061297.
- Brown, James Robert (2017). "Review of An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader". Philosophia Mathematica. 25 (1): 151–153. doi:10.1093/philmat/nkw033. ISSN 0031-8019.
Further reading
- Knowles, Robert; Liggins, David (2015). "Good weasel hunting" (PDF). Synthese. 192 (10): 3397–3412. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0711-7. ISSN 0039-7857. S2CID 255074606.
- Knepp, Dennis (2015). "Review of Philosophy Through Teaching". Teaching Philosophy. 38 (3): 358–362. doi:10.5840/teachphil201538352. ISSN 0145-5788.
- Costanzo, Jason Mark (2019). "Review of Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching". Philosophy in Review. 39 (3): 113–115. ISSN 1920-8936.
- Schultz, Anne-Marie (2022). "Review of Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching". Teaching Philosophy. 45 (2): 258–262. doi:10.5840/teachphil2022452161. ISSN 0145-5788. S2CID 248072684.