Jim Allard
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Current Semester
Not currently teaching
Research Interests
- 19th Century Philosophy
- History of Philosophy
- Continental Philosophy
Education
- PhD, Princeton University, 1976
Select Publications
Books
- The Logical Foundations of Bradley’s Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Chapters
- “The Idealistic Transformation of Logic,” in James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou, Aspects of Idealism, Peter Lang, 2010.
- “Idealism, Pragmatism, and the World Well Lost,” in Randall E. Auxier (ed), The Philosophy of Richard Rorty, Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2010, 47-68.
- “Sprigge’s Vindication of Concrete Universals,” in Pierfrancesco Basile and Leemon McHenry
- (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, 79-91.
- “Realism, Anti-realism, and Absolute Idealism,” in Randall E. Auxier (ed), The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Library of Living Philosophers, (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court), 2007, pp. 127-146.
- “Bosanquet and the Problem of Inference,” in William Sweet (ed.), Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, (Toronto: Toronto University Press), 2007, pp. 73-89.
- “Idealism in Britain and the U.S.A., 1870-1914,” in Thomas Baldwin (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1870-1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 43-59.
Journal articles
- “Bradley’s Collected Works, Volume 3", Bradley Studies, Special Review Issue, Vol. 7, 2001, pp. 46-77.
Reviews
- Ben Wempe, T. H. Green’s Theory of Positive Freedom, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2010.
- Maria Dimova-Cookson and W. J. Mander (eds.), T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2007.
Courses Taught
- Philosophy 105H: Problems of Good and Evil
- Philosophy 120H: Reason and Reality
- Philosophy 214: Philosophy of Human Nature
- Philosophy 220: Asian Philosophy
- Philosophy 231: Introduction to Logic
- Philosophy 265: Philosophy in Literature
- Philosophy 290: Social and Political Philosophy
- Philosophy 305RH: History of Western Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval
- Philosophy 307: History of Philosophy: Recent
- Philosophy 332: Ethics
- Philosophy 360: Existentialism and After
- Philosophy 364: Contemporary Philosophy
- Philosophy 390: Reason and Revolution
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Plato
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Aristotle
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Hegel
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Russell
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Idealism
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Davidson
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Heidegger
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Rorty
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Wittgenstein
- Philosophy 400: Seminar, Philosophy of Logic
- Philosophy 402: Marxism
- Philosophy 404: Phenomenology
- University Honors 202: Texts and Critics: Love and Power
- CLS 101V: Freshmen Seminar