RUDY GARNS
I became the value of a bound variable sometime during the late 'fifties in Elizabethtown, PA. After graduating from Western Maryland College (now called McDaniel College) in 1979 with a major in philosophy, I went on to earn my M.A. in philosophy at Northern Illinois University in 1982 and my Ph.D. in philosophy at Syracuse University in 1989. My dissertation, under the direction of William P. Alston, was on the nature of knowledge.
I am an associate professor in the Philosophy Program at Northern Kentucky University, where I regularly teach Introduction to Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy. I also offer (usually in conjunction with the Honors Program) Darwin and Philosophy; Creationism and Science; and Androids, Zombies and Brains. I've co-authored a textbook entitled Theories of Knowledge and Reality. My current research interests include the philosophy of mind and free will. I began working at NKU 6211 days ago.
