Garry Dobbins - Affiliate Associate Professor
	Affiliate Associate Professor Email: gdobbins@stevens.edu Phone:  (201) 216- Fax: (201) 216-8245 Office: Peirce 207
Research Interests Critically examining Nietzsche's repudiation of the Socratic tradition in ethics and philosophy more generally; Assessing the impact of Wittgenstein's work on philosophical psychology, language, and ethics.

Garry Dobbins was born some years ago, and raised in Sydney Australia, where he dropped out of high school at 16, and traveled the world. Tiring of travel, after a stint working as a waiter in Milan, he was accepted into the Philosophy Department at Kings College, London, where he was fortunate enough to study with Peter Winch, Norman Malcolm, Myles Burnyeat, and Rai Gaita.

Following his arrival in the New World, he spent a year at NYU earning a Master's degree, supervised by Tom Nagel, and then moved to Charlottesville, where he took his doctorate at the University of Virginia, supervised by Cora Diamond. His main interests are generally in political and moral philosophy, as well as logic and language. The philosophers he admires most, among the dead, are Socrates, Plato, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Simone Weil. He is writing on Wittgenstein and Marxism, as well as Nietzsche's ill-conceived repudiation of Socrates.

Areas of specialization:

Ethics and Aesthetics
Philosophy of Mind

Education

B.A., (Hons.), Kings' College, London, 1980
M.A., New York University, 1981
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1989

Courses Taught

Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Ethics

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