Dr. Nancy Stanlick

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Assistant Dean and Director of Research, College of Arts and Humanities, UCF, Orlando
Associate Professor, UCF Department of Philosophy
 
 
Office:  PSY 240, Orlando, FL 32816 ---- Phone: 407-823-2273 or 407-823-5459 ----- e-mail:  Nancy.Stanlick@ucf.edu
Dean's Office:  CAH 190X-----Phone: 407-823-2161
New Book Coming Soon:  Nancy A. Stanlick, American Philosophy: The Basics, Routledge, January 30, 2013
See:  http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415689700/

Classes for Spring Term 2012 (Syllabus at active link below and in the Course Syllabus link in the side bar):

Honors Introduction to Philosophy:  https://sites.google.com/site/phi2010honorsspring2012/
Class meets 1:30-2:45 on Tue and Thu in BHC 127

Office Hours for Spring Term 2012:
  • Philosophy Department (PSY 240): Tue 3:00-4:00 and Thu 3:00-4:00 and by appt.
  • Dean's Office (not for course office hours, CAH 190x): Variable
For CAH Assessment Information, go to the link in the side bar or use this one

For the UCF Academic Ethics and Integrity Seminar, go to 

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The Philosopher, Thomas Hobbes

My Cat, Thomas Hobbes

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." ~ Anonymous

A controversial quotation from Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion:  God is a "misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
 
Some of My Favorite Quotations:

"True friends stab you in the front." --Oscar Wilde

"Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul./And sings the tune without the words/and never stops at all." --Emily Dickinson

"We have to distrust each other.  It is our only defense against betrayal."  --Oscar Wilde

The idea is to die young as late as possible. --Ashley Montagu

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife.  But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him?  Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -- Joseph Roux


Elizabeth Cady Stanton"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self"

 

Thomas Hobbes, the Philosopher"But by safety must be understood, not the sole preservation of life in what condition soever, but in order to its happiness. For to this end did men freely assemble themselves, and institute a government, that they might, as much as their humane condition would afford, live delightfully." --Thomas Hobbes, De Cive


Picture above from vacation, 
July 2011, St. Thomas, USVI.

A personal note:  

Live every day like it is the last.
 
"The world has tilted but
The world has expanded
And the world has turned
My world upside down."
              --Carly Simon, from "Scar"
 
Scars are tattoos with better stories. --Unknown

Some of My Publications:

BOOKS
2013.  American Philosophy: The Basics, Routledge.  Scheduled for Publication, January 2013.

2004. Philosophy in America, Volume I. For info, click here for Pearson Prentice Hall's Web Page

2004. Philosophy in America, Volume II. For info, click here for Pearson Prentice Hall's Web Page

ARTICLES

2010.  "Reconciling with Harm: An Alternative to Forgiveness and Revenge," Florida Philosophical Review, Vol. X., Summer, 88-111 (online).

2007. “Individual-Centered Collaborative Research,” Teaching Philosophy. March.

2006. "A Hobbesian View of International Sovereignty," Journal of Social Philosophy, 37:4 Winter: 552-565.

2006. “Creating an Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach,” The Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council,Spring/Summer 2006: 75-91.

2005. “Individualism, Community, and Academic Integrity,” Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, ed. Jack A. Chambers, Jacksonville, FL, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. (March): 171-184.

2002. "Hobbesian Friendship: Valuing Others for Oneself," Journal of Social Philosophy, 33:3 Fall: 345-359.

2002. “Lords and Mothers: Silent Subjects in Hobbes’s Political Theory,” International Journal of Politics and Ethics, 1:3: 171-182. Reprinted 2002 in Patrick Hayden and Tom Langston, eds., Ethics and Politics, Nova Publications, 2002: 139-150.

1999. “The Nature and Value of Supererogatory Actions,” The Journal of Social Philosophy, 20:1 (Spring 1999): 209-222.

Grant Information:

Grant Information

Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, Jan 2007-December 2008. A grant project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. For more information, seehttp://ucfcorecommitments.wordpress.com.

Quality Enhancement Plan for Information Fluency. 2006-2008. A pilot project of the UCF Department of Philosophy with the UCF QEP for IF. For more information, see http://www.if.ucf.edu.