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Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:30pm, or by appointment
Expertise Areas: Ethics, Epistemology, Free Will, Responsibility, and Addiction, Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy, Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy
Courses Taught
Couse Descriptions Can Be Found Here
PHIL 2441: Logic, Language and Scientific Reasoning
PHIL 3022: Modern Philosophy
PHIL 3032: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 3250: Business Ethics
PHIL 3350: Metaphysics
PHIL 3360: Epistemology
PHIL 4700: Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 4735: Rationalism
PHIL 4755: Philosophical Psychology
PHIL 4812/5812: Philosophy of Love and Sex
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Candice Shelby on Perception and Belief
Education & Degrees
Ph.D., Philosophy, Rice University, 1991.
M.A., Philosophy, Rice University, 1988.
B.A., Humanities, University of Houston-Clear Lake, 1984.
Selected Publications
“Philosophical Considerations Concerning the Use of Hallucinogens in Psychiatric Treatment,” in Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens edited by Charles S. Grob and Jim Grigsby, (New York: The Guilford Press, 2021): chapter 29.
"Addiction: A Philosophical Perspective," (New York: St Martin's Press, 2016) **note: If you are unable to read this book online via the Auraria Library, please come to the Philosophy Department. We may have a copy available**
"Addiction: Beyond Disease and Choice," in Philosophy in the Contemporary World vol. 20, 2013
"On the Power of Belief in Treating Addiction," in Humanities and Social Sciences Review vol. 1, 2012
"Response to John Glenn's 'On the Very Idea of Free Will," in Southwest Philosophy Review vol. 27, 2011
"Addicts are Not Powerless: The Trick is Knowing Where the Power Is", published on the website lifering.org, January 21, 2011
"Reply to Goldberg's 'Van Inwagen's Two Failed Arguments for the Belief in Freedom," in Southwest Philosophy Review vol. 26, 2010
"Reductio Ad Absurdum and Slippery Slope Arguments: Two Sides of the Same Coin?" in Annales Philosophici vol. 1, 2010
"Mid – Career or Second Career?", in APA Newsletter on Feminism vol. 9, 2009