University of New England

Education
Ph.D., MA., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Philosophy of Science, Logic

A.B., Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, New York, Mathematics

Scholarship/Interests
Professor Sartorelli's interests include scientific reasoning, causation, Galileo, and the teaching of thinking.  Serving as a consultant in the teaching of thinking with the National Center for Teaching Thinking (Newton, Massachusetts), she has conducted numerous workshops on teaching thinking for teachers at all levels and presented papers on critical thinking at national and international conferences. 

She also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers.  Firmly believing that philosophy is a useful discipline, Professor Sartorelli worked for six years with the Texas Law Enforcement Management Institute helping police officers and chiefs to become better decision makers and problem solvers.  She also helped develop for managers and shop workers at Texas Instruments a strategy for getting at the root cause of problems in the production of small parts.

She has worked with Wisconsin PBS on a series of videos on the interaction among science, technology and society.  Her current interests include the philosophy of friendship, love, marriage and sex, and she is working on a paper about the relationship between concepts of friendship and life goals.

Favorite philosophers: Willard Van Orman Quine, Galileo Galilei, David
Hume, Noretta Koertge.

Education
Ph.D., University of London (Kings College)
M.A. Antioch University

Scholarship/Interests
David Livingstone Smith has a particular interest in the potential of philosophy to build bridges. He sees philosophy as that place where all of the other academic disciplines meet: it lies at the intersection of the sciences and the arts, of ethics, psychology, religion, mathematics, law and history. As a philosopher, David is concerned with abstract, conceptual problems, but he is also deeply interested in how philosophy can contribute in a practical way to dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.

"David's research is focused on human nature and the role that evolutionary biology can play in furthering its understanding. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War (St. Martins Press, 2007). David enjoys teaching most aspects of analytical philosophy, but is particularly fond of philosophy of mind, contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of biology.

Favorite philosophers: Ruth Garratt Millikan and Donald Davidson
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