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Jorge L. Nobo, Ph.D.


Education

B.A. - University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Ph.D. - University of Texas at Austin

Courses Taught at Washburn

PH 100 - World Views & Moral Values
PH 201 - History of Ancient Western Philosophy
PH 202 - History of Modern Western Philosophy
PH 205 - Introduction to Existentialism
PH 303 - Topics in the History of Philosophy
PH 330 - Philosophy of Mind
PH 335 - Metaphysics




Jorge L Nobo
 

 

Post Doctoral Education
NEH Institute on the History of American Philosophy, summer 1976, Haverford College

Visting Scholar in Philosophy, May 28 - August 19, 1979, Harvard University

Workshop on the Compositional Analysis of Alfred N. Whitehead's Process and Reality, May 31 - June 18, 1982, Old Dominion University

NEH Institute on Metaphysics and the Modern World, June 25 - August 5, 1986, Santa Clara University, CA

Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, May 18 - July 30, 1993, University of Salamanca and Biblioteca Nacional, Spain, and University of Miami, FL.

Dr. Nobo joined Washburn's Philosophy Department in1972. Born in Havana, Cuba, he first came to the States as a child and lived in the then small town of Orlando, Florida, for three years, during which time English became his second native language. He completed his secondary studies in Cuba and returned to the U.S., this time to stay, in 1960. He became a naturalized citizen in 1966. Outside philosophy his main interests are friends, literature, movies, chess, and table tennis.

Dr. Nobo's primary areas of interest are metaphysics, philosophy of mind, process philosophy, and Alfred N. Whitehead. He is the author of Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and Solidarity, SUNY Press (New York: 1986, 439 pp.), and a co-editor of the Individual and Society, Southwestern Journal of Philosophy Press (Norman:1978, 213 pp.) Dr. Nobo's articles on process philosophy have appeared in various journals and books. His most recent publication is "Whitehead and the Quantum Experience" in Physics and Whitehead: Quantum, Process, and Experience, SUNY Press, (New York: 2004)

 


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