Samuel C. Rickless
 
CLICK TO FEED THE HUNGRY Academic History I came to UCSD in July 2001 after having spent five years as an assistant professor of philosophy at Florida State University. I was promoted to associate professor in July 2003. Although my graduate training was primarily in the philosophy of language, my work focuses mostly on topics in ancient philosophy (particularly Plato), early modern philosophy (particularly Descartes, Locke, and Berkeley), ethics, and constitutional law. Recently I have been writing about Locke’s attack on innate ideas and principles in Book I of the Essay, Locke’s theory of knowledge, the correct approach to legal adjudication, the coherence of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, the semantics of proper names, and the function of the Parmenides in the development of Plato’s theory of forms. I am also working on a reconstruction and evaluation of Berkeley’s argument for idealism.  News: My book, Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides (Cambridge University Press), was published in December 2006. See here or here. John Palmer published a critical review of my book in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. You can find my response to Palmer’s review here. I am the editor for the History:Modern section of Blackwell Philosophy Compass. http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSiteshttp://www.amazon.com/Platos-Forms-Transition-Reading-Parmenides/dp/0521864569/sr=8-1/qid=1167685741/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-2383604-3239101?ie=UTF8&s=bookshttp://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521864569http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11784Home_files/Palmer-response.pdfhttp://www.philosophy-compass.comshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5
 
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