Dea, Shannon -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Shannon
Last Name: 
Dea
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
University Affiliation: 
University of Waterloo
Phone: 
(519) 888-4567
Extension: 
32778
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Science
Geographical Region: 
Great Britain
United States of America
Time Period: 
17th Century
18th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
Early modern philosophy, classic pragmatism, and philosophy of gender
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
University of Western Ontario
PHD Date: 
2007
Major Publications: 
“Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery Slope,” Dialogue 48 (2009) 59-76. “Firstness, Evolution and the Absolute in Peirce's Spinoza,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44.4 (2008) 603-628. “Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference,” The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. Thomas M. Lennon and Robert Stainton, Eds. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008. With Thomas M. Lennon, “Continental Rationalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (November 2007). “‘Merely a Veil Over the Living Thought’: Mathematics and Logic in Peirce’s Forgotten Spinoza Review.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42.4 (Fall 2006) 501-517. “Thomas Reid’s Rigourized Anti-Hypotheticalism.” The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3.2 (October 2005) 123-138.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (2009-present); The Achilles Project (2006-2007); International Duns Scotus Society (2005-2007); American Philosophical Association (2004-present); Canadian Society for Existentialism, Phenomenology, Theory and Culture (2004-present); Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (2004-2007, 2009-present); Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (formerly the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought) (2003-present); Canadian Philosophical Association (2002-present); Charles Sanders Peirce Society (2002-2003, 2007-).
Courses Taught: 
Peirce, Descartes and the Cartesians, The Achilles Inference and the Unity of Consciousness,Spinoza’s Ethics