Dr. Rockney Jacobsen
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: rjacobsen@wlu.caPhone: 519-884-0710 ext.3084
Fax: 519-884-5465
Office Location: S011
Office Hours: Winter 2012: Thursdays 2:00-3:30 PM
Academic Background
My interests are the philosophy of mind and language, Wittgenstein, and the history of philosophy.
Biography
Recent Publications:
"The Duck Quacks Back: A Reply to Nguyen", Dialogue; Canadian Philosophical Review, 2009
"Davidson and First-Person Authority: Parataxis and Self-Expression", in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009
"Sexual Desire", in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (ed. by A. Soble), 2006
"Semantic Character and Expressive Content", Philosophical Papers, August 1997.
"Self-Quotation and Self-Knowledge", Synthese, March 1997.
"Wittgenstein on Self-Knowledge and Self-Expression", The Philosophical Quarterly, January 1996.
"Arousal and the Ends of Desire", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 1993.
"Economic Efficiency and the Quality of Life", Journal of Business Ethics, 1991 [re-published in Ethical Issues in Business, ed. by P. Tittle, 2000]
"Science, Technology, and Naturalized Philosophy", in Eidos, 1988 [re-published in Eidos, 25th Anniversay Issue, 2003]
