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Dr. Nathan Lauffer
“Hey! I’m Nate Lauffer. I got my PhD in philosophy at Northwestern University in July 2024. My area of specialization is epistemology, and I have competence in ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, logic, and political philosophy. This fall I’ll be teaching language, logic, and persuasion as well as philosophy of religion. If I’m not writing a philosophy paper, reading philosophy, or doing course prep, then I’m probably playing basketball or doing something travel-related (I love exploring new places!).”
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Dr.Aaron Wells
My teaching specialties include the history of philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and environmental philosophy. My research focuses on European philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Some recent or forthcoming articles are “Du Châtelet, Induction, and Newton’s Rules for Reasoning” (in the European Journal of Philosophy), “Lambert on Moral Certainty and the Justification of Induction” (in Inquiry), “Magnitude, Matter, and Kant’s Principle of Mechanism” (in the Kant Yearbook), and “The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Early Modern Philosophy of Science: Leibniz, Du Châtelet, and Euler” (in The Principle of Sufficient Reason: a History, edited by Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca for the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series). In current research, I am looking into how the relationship between mathematics and science was understood by modern philosophers such as Christian Wolff and Emilie Du Châtelet.