Rick Anthony Furtak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
office: Armstrong 136A
phone: 719-389-6565
email address: rfurtak@coloradocollege.edu
I've been teaching at CC since January 2003, and my philosophical interests range from the moral psychology of the emotions to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature. See below for information on some of my teaching areas and recent publications.
Education
B.A., Boston University, 1996
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
Courses
PH 101 Greek Philosophy
PH 141 Philosophy and Literature
PH 201 History of Modern Philosophy
PH 260 Existential Philosophy
PH 261 Philosophy of Mind
PH 361 Philosophy of Emotion
Representative Publications
Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).
"Skepticism and Perceptual Faith," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society 43 (2007): 542-561.
" 'I Used to Care, but Things Have Changed': Passion and the Absurd in Dylan's Later Work," in Bob Dylan and Philosophy, ed. by Peter Vernezze and Carl Porter (Chicago: Open Court, 2006).
"Believing in Time: Rethinking Faith and History in Philosophical Fragments, Works of Love, and Repetition," Kierkegaard Studies Notebook 9 (2004): 100-116.
"The Virtues of Authenticity," International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2003): 423-438.
"Thoreau's Emotional Stoicism," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (2003): 122-132.
"Poetics of Sentimentality," Philosophy and Literature 26 (2002): 207-215.