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Jennifer Fisher

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
Kalmanovitz Hall 248
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Biography

Jennifer Fisher received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2003.  Her research interests include questions of normativity (broadly considered). She is currently working on a philosophical memoir that touches on issues of identity, obligation, and the debate between reason and emotion, as well as a series of non-fiction essays exploring memory and family.

She has recently started offering introduction to philosophy CEL courses that combine classrooms with students at Mt. Tamalpais Community College at San Quentin State Prison.

Expertise

  • epistemology
  • philosophy of logic
  • meta-ethics

Education

  • City University of New York, Graduate Center, PhD in Philosophy, 2003
  • UC Santa Cruz, BA in Philosophy, 1989