Brett Bourbon, Assistant Professor Primary Office: 460-415
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Office Phone: 650-723-2726 At Stanford Since: 1998 Email: bbourbon@stanford.edu Degrees: B.A., UC Berkeley, 1986 Ph.D., Harvard, 1996 Titles: Mellon Post-Doc Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford, 1996-98 | 
Brett Bourbon received his B.A. from UC Berkeley, where he studied 14th-century philosophy and theology, and his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied the relations among philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, and modern literature and aesthetics. He has written on the relation between sense and nonsense in theories of meaning; on the philosophical significance (and limits) of science fiction; on the moral dimension in modern poetry in relation to moral philosophy; on aesthetics as forms of Mind; on the grammar and logic of 'I' in Wittgenstein; on Finnegans Wake as a form of askesis; on the shift from romantic soul-making to modern person-making. He is currently completing a book entitled Constructing a Replacement for the Soul: Wittgenstein, Joyce and Cognitive Philosophy. He teaches classes on the problem of meaning in Modernism; on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; on contemporary British fiction (and the relation between morality and history); on Finnegans Wake and Joyce; on the literature of World War I; on the competing understandings of 'human being', 'person', and 'soul' in literature, philosophy, and cognitive science.
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