Stuart Brock

Senior Lecturer

BA Monash
MA ANU
MA PhD Princeton

Profile

Stuart Brock is a senior lecturer in the philosophy programme at Victoria University. He was the previous Head of the Philosophy Programme, and is currently the Dean of Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.  He has taught courses in Critical Thinking, Irrationality, and Logical Thinking.  Before coming to Wellington in 2002, he spent nine years (on and off) in the USA.  He had a permanent teaching position in the department of philosophy at Western Washington University, and received his PhD from Princeton University. He is a native of Australia, but feels most at home in New Zealand.

Research Areas

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of the Emotions.

Current Teaching

Philosophy 104: Argument and Analysis.
Philosophy 105: The Big Questions.
Philosophy 106: Introduction to Ethics.
Philosophy 107: Philosophy of Media and the Arts.
Philosophy 222/322: Philosophy of Literature.
Philosophy 227/327: Minds and Persons.
Philosophy 229/329: Philosophy of the Emotions.

Selected Publications

Books

Realism and Antirealism (co-authored with Edwin Mares) forthcoming with Acumen

Articles

'Fictions, Feelings, and Emotions', Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.

'The Ubiquitous Problem of Empty Names', Journal of Philosophy, 101 (2004).

'Fictionalism About Fictional Characters', Noûs, 36 (2002).