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Dr. Brian Kierland, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor

Email: briankierland@boisestate.edu

Office: Education Building Room 636B

Phone: (208) 426-1474

Areas of Interest:

Ethics, Meta-ethics, Probabilistic Epistemology, Metaphysics of Time, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 101), Knowledge and Reality (PHIL 101), Philosophy of Language (PHIL 308), Moral Philosophy (PHIL 311), Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 410), Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 413)

Biography:

Brian got his B.A. in Philosophy from the College of Idaho in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy  from Princeton in 2003. He has authored and coauthored articles on a variety of topics that have appeared in journals such as Synthèse, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He likes to play tennis, ping-pong and basketball.