Peter S. Fosl
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Peter Stanley Fosl (born Peter Stanley Wasel on March 15, 1963) is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and the winner of a 2006 Acorn Award for outstanding professor in Kentucky.
Education and professional life
Fosl graduated from
From 1992 to 1998 Fosl worked as an assistant professor at
In 2006, Fosl was honored with the Acorn Award as outstanding professor in the state of Kentucky at a four-year public or private university (a second Acorn recognizes a Kentucky community college professor). Fosl's award noted "[t]he outstanding quality of his teaching, expertise in his fields of study, the originality of courses and scholarship, and the role he plays as a mentor...."[1] That same year he was named a Kentucky Colonel.
Fosl is co-editor of the two-volume British Philosophers 1500-1799 and 1800–2000 (published by
Fosl is the author of various articles and books on the history of philosophy, skepticism, David Hume, the philosophy of religion, ethics, and philosophical method; he has published in Hume Studies, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and 1650-1850. He has been a contributing editor to The Philosophers' Magazine, and a panelist with AskPhilosophers.org.
Personal life
Fosl hails from
References
- ^ "2006 OAK and Acorn Award Winners". Kentucky: Council on Postsecondary Education. Archived from the original on 2006-10-26. Retrieved 2007-05-11.