 To learn more about Professor Tlumak, read his interview: Taking Questions of Method Seriously |
Jeffrey Tlumak
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Email: jeffrey.tlumak@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman 105
Phone: (615) 343-5909
Fax: (615) 343-7259
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
Research Area
Jeffrey Tlumak is mainly interested in the history of modern philosophy. Ongoing special interests include Descartes' philosophical method, Kantian transcendental argument, Hume's philosophy of religion, the structure of Leibniz' metaphysics and the relation of his metaphysics to his theory of knowledge, skepticism, and the nature, role, and tests of the various kinds of possibility.
Current Research
Professor Tlumak is currently working on a book on metaphysics for Rowman Littlefield.
Recent Courses
Professor Tlumak regularly teaches courses in the figures and problems of modern philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, and recent analytic philosophy.
Publications
- Classical Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2006)
- "Judgment and Understanding in Descartes' Philosophy," The Southern Journal of Philosophy Supplement, 1983.
- "Cross-Categorial Priority Arguments," Metaphilosophy, January, 1983.
- "Certainty and Cartesian Method," in Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays , 1978, ed. Michael Hooker.
- "Some Defects in Strawson's Anti-skeptical Method," Philosophical Studies, October, 1975.
