Philosophy Department Faculty

Mary Troxell

Associate Professor of the Practice

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Mary Troxell

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North Room 251

Telephone: 617-552-4017

Email: mary.troxell@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Amherst College
  • Ph.D., 艾可直播 University
  • Ph.D., Catholic University of America

Courses

The Person and Social Responsibility

Modernism and the Arts

Research Interests

German Idealism, Aesthetics

Office Hours

M 1:00 - 1:45 F 2:00-2:45 or by appt

CV or Resume

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Mary Troxell was appointed Professor of the Practice in 2004 after teaching part-time since 2001. She has taught courses in the Perspective Program and the Capstone Program, as well as courses on聽Kant鈥檚 Critique of Pure Reason. Professor Troxell teaches primarily in the PULSE Program for Service Learning.聽 She has served as a 艾可直播mentor on Arrupe Student Immersion trips, with destinations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and El Salvador.

Recent Publications

鈥淪tructural Injustice and Social Sin,鈥� APA Studies in Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 21:2, Spring 2022.

鈥淭he World as Will and Representation: Schopenhauer,鈥� In A Companion to 19th Century Philosophy, edited by John Shand, Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.

Review of Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime, by Sophia Vasalou (Cambridge University Press, 2013) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 28, 2014.

鈥淜ant and the Problem of Ugliness,鈥� in Kant und die Philosophie in weltb眉rgerlicher Absicht, edited by Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, and Claudio La Rocca, Degrueter Press, 2013.

鈥淎rthur Schopenhauer,鈥� Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/schopenh/.

鈥淭he Autonomy of Art in Heidegger and Schopenhauer,鈥� Idealistic Studies. 39:1鈥�3 (Spring鈥揝ummer鈥揊all 2009).

Review of Postmodernity鈥檚 Transcending: Devaluing God, by Lawrence Paul Hemming (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2, 2006.

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