Svetozar Minkov

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Phone:  312-341-2437

Office:  AUD 705a

E-Mail:  sminkov@roosevelt.edu

Professor Minkov (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004) teaches a variety of courses, many of which focus on the relationship between knowledge of how to live and knowledge of nature.  He has published books, essays, and reviews on Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, and Carl Schmitt.  He is the recipient of an NEH Enduring Questions grant for a course on happiness to be taught in the spring of 2010.  In the spring of 2009, he was a visiting professor at MIT.

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Stuart D. Warner

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. (Michigan State University)

Phone:  312-341-6390

Office:  AUD 705c

E-Mail:  swarner@roosevelt.edu

Professor Warner has taught courses on many subjects, including History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy in Literature and Film and seminars on Plato's Republic, Herodotus's History and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.  He has published essays on Locke, Burke, Bentham, Hegel, Hume and Montesquieu.  He has translated La Rochefoucauld's Maxims and Montesquieu's Persian Letters.  Warner served in 2005 as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago's Committee of Social Thought and in 2007 at the University of Chicago's Center for Study of the Principles of the American Founding.  He was recently appointed Director of Roosevelt University's new Montesquieu Institute for the Study of Civic Life.