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Husain Sarkar
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1976
Email: husains@lsu.edu
Biography
Husain Sarkar received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Minnesota in 1976 and in the same year joined the philosophy faculty at 海角社区. He served as Director of Graduate Studies from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1996 to 1997.
Areas of Interest
Professor Sarkar is interested in moral philosophy, metaphysics, the history of philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.
Awards and Honors
- Directed Blake M. Allen's Honors Thesis, The Right to Remain Silent: Kant and the Would-be Murderer at the Door, pp. viii+160. It received an Ogden Honors College Outstanding Thesis Award (2017).
- Tiger Athletic Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2017
- Manship Summer 2011 Research Fellowship, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- 海角社区 Rainmaker鈥檚 Award, 2008
- ATLAS (Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) research grant, 2006-2007
- Tiger Athletic Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2006
- Award for directing Frank Worrell鈥檚 B.A. Honors Thesis, designated the best 2004-2005 Undergraduate Honors Thesis in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- 海角社区 Distinguished Faculty Research Award, 2001
Selected Publications
Books
- Kant and Parfit: The Groundwork of Morals. New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. xviii + 362.
- Group Rationality in Scientific Research. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv+284
- Descartes鈥� Cogito: Saved From the Great Shipwreck. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii+305
- The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on 鈥淭he Present Age鈥�. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000. x+187
- A Theory of Method. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xvii+229
Articles
- 鈥淎nnas: Virtuous Person, Relativism, and the Circularity Objection,鈥� Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 54(2) (June 2015): 285-311.
- 鈥淎nnas: The Just Soul, the Community, and the Circularity Objection,鈥� Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 54(1) (March 2015): 159-184.
- 鈥淜ant: Let Us Compare.鈥� The Review of Metaphysics 58 (June 2005): 755-83.
- 鈥淓mpirical Equivalence and Underdetermination.鈥� International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14/2 (July 2000): 187-97.
- 鈥淜now Thyself: A Theory of Understanding. Part Two.鈥� Cogito 13/2 (August 1999): 133-38.
- 鈥淜ierkegaard: Vox Populi, Vox Dei.鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37/2 (1999): 253-79.
- 鈥淎nti-Realism Against Methodology.鈥� Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science 116/3 (1998): 379-402.
- 鈥淜now Thyself: A Theory of Understanding. Part One.鈥� Cogito 12/3 (Nov 1998): 199-204.
- 鈥淪cientific Realism and the Neutrality of Method.鈥� The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy 75/1 (Nov 1997): 65-
- 鈥淭he Task of Group Rationality: The Subjectivist鈥檚 View. Part II.鈥� Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28/3 (Sep 1997): 497-520.
- 鈥淭he Task of Group Rationality: The Subjectivist鈥檚 View. Part I.鈥� Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 28/2 (June 1997): 267-88.
- 鈥淪omething, Nothing, and Explanation.鈥� Southwest Philosophy Review 9/1 (Jan 1993): 151-61.
- 鈥淚n Defense of Truth.鈥� Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 14/1 (Mar 1983): 67-69.
- 鈥淎 Theory of Group Rationality.鈥� Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 13/1 (Mar 1982): 55-72.
- 鈥淥rigins and Identities.鈥� Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60/2 (June 1982): 140-151.
- 鈥淭he Lockean Proviso.鈥� The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12/1 (Mar 1982): 47-59.
- 鈥淧opper鈥檚 Third Requirement for the Growth of Knowledge.鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy 19/4 (Dec 1981): 489-97.
- 鈥淭ruth, Problem-solving and Methodology.鈥� Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 12/1 (Mar 1981): 61-73.
- 鈥淢ethodological Appraisals, Advice, and Historiographical Models.鈥� Erkenntnis 15/3 (Sep 1980): 371-90.
- 鈥淚mre Lakatos鈥檚 Meta-Methodology: An Appraisal.鈥� Philosophy of The Social Sciences 10/4 (Dec 1980): 397-416.
- 鈥淧utnam鈥檚 Schemata.鈥� The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10/1 (Mar 1979): 125-37.
- 鈥淧opper鈥檚 Principle of Transference: A Conjecture Refuted.鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy 16/4 (Dec 1978): 363-71.
- 鈥淎gainst Against Method; or, Consolations for the Rationalist.鈥� The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 9/1 (Mar 1978): 35-44.
- 鈥淢usgrave鈥檚 鈥楢ppraisals and Advice.鈥欌�� Philosophy of Science 45/3 (Sep 1978): 478-83.
Reviews
- Invited review of Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism. In The Journal of Philosophy 95/4 (Apr 1998): 204-209.