Associate Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1234 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-5534
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: migotti@ucalgary.ca

Education

Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., University of Warwick
B.A. Honors (first class), Queen's University

Areas of Interest

Ethics
19th Century German Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer)
Classical American Pragmatism (esp. C. S. Peirce)
Ancient Philosophy
Epistemology
Philosophy of History

Honours

Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 2003/04

Selected Publications

Books

In preparation: Ethics and the Life of the Mind: Nietzsche's Critique of Modern Morality (working title).

Articles

"For the Sake of Knowledge and the Love of Truth: Susan Haack Between Sacred Enthusiasm and Sophisticated Disillusionment". Forthcoming in Susan Haack: the Philosopher Replies to Critics. Prometheus Books.

Discussion of Michael Hymers, Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses, Dialogue (forthcoming).

Critical notice of Truth, Rationality and Pragmatism, by Christopher Hookway (Oxford University Press), Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (2004), 287-310.

"All kinds of promises," Ethics 114 (2003), 60-87

"Peirce's double aspect theory of truth," in Pragmatism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, Cheryl Misak, ed., Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999, 75-108.

"Slave morality, Socrates, and the bushman: A reading of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1998), 745-779.

"Schopenhauer's pessimism and the unconditioned good," Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (1995), 639-655.

"Peirce's first rule of reason and the bad faith of Rortian post-philosophy," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (1995), 89-136.

"Recent work in pragmatism," Philosophical Books 29 (1988), 65-73.

"Luther's word on man's will: A case study in comparative intellectual history," Religious Studies 20 (1984), 657-667.

Recent Teaching

Being and Time (PHIL 589/601)
Ethics (PHIL 249)
The Classical Period (PHIL 301)
Hume (PHIL 355)
Nineteenth Century European Philosophy (PHIL 369)
Aristotle (PHIL 443)
Pragmatism (PHIL 589.50/621.06)
Recent Work in Epistemology (PHIL 589.42/663.08)
Nietzsche's Critique of Morality (PHIL 505.03/609.23)

Supervisees

MA

• 2004 - Vokey, Fred: Reclaiming Freedom: A Study in Nietzsche's Ethics and Philosophy of Action
• 2001 - Lynch, Sterling: Romantic Longings, Moral Ideals, Democratic Priorities: On Richard Rorty's Use of the Distinction Between the Private and the Public

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