Dr. Nancy Stanlick
 
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Thomas Hobbes's Birthday

Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, UCF Department of Philosophy

Office:  PSY 240, Orlando, FL 32816 ------- Phone: 407-823-2273 or 407-823-5459 ----- e-mail:  stanlick@mail.ucf.edu

Office Hours for Fall Term 2009:  Monday and Wednesday, 2:30-3:30 and Thursday, 4:30-5:00

Classes for Fall Term 2009:
  • Introduction to Philosophy, PHI 2010, CL1 104, MW 4:30-5:45 (See your WebCourses for further info)
  • Theoretical and Applied Ethics, PHI 5627, Online at http://webcourses.ucf.edu 
  • Case Studies in Ethics, IDH 3930H, BHC 128, Thurs 6:00-8:50 p.m. (co-taught with Dr. Michael Strawser)
  • UCF Academic Ethics/Academic Integrity Seminar.  Go to http://sites.google.com/site/ucfacademicethicsseminar .
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The Philosopher, Thomas Hobbes

My Cat, Thomas Hobbes

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

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her." ~ Montaigne


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:

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. --Javan 

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.--Javan

"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

"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed, but by answering; because it was he, because it was my selfe." --Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

"Some day we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun/Some day when the world is much brighter." --Stan Vincent (composer)

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats 

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. --Henri B. Stendhal 


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, 
May 2009, Bahamas.

A personal note:  

If there is a  single most important thing that I have learned, it is this:  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"
 
“Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.” - Unknown

Some of My Publications:

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

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.