Walter Hopp Assistant Professor of Philosophy Office: STH 539 E-mail: hopp@bu.edu Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California Interests: Phenomenology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Walter Hopp joined the department in 2005 after receiving his B.A. from Colorado State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include Epistemology, Phenomenology, Early Modern Philosophy, and Metaphysics, especially the issue of realism. He is currently working on Husserl’s theory of knowledge or “fulfillment,” examining the nature of nonconceptual mental content, and attempting to spell out how it contributes to the epistemic status of beliefs. He has taught courses in Phenomenology, Existentialism, Epistemology, and British Empiricism. You can find out more, and read penultimate versions of his articles, at his homepage: http://people.bu.edu/hopp/.

Publications:

“Husserl, Phenomenology, and Foundationalism,” Inquiry 51 (2008), 194-216.

“Minimalist Truth and Realist Truth,” Philosophia Christi 10 (2008), 87-100.

“Husserl on Sensation, Perception, and Interpretation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 38 (2008), 219-246.

“Conceptualism and the Myth of the Given,” forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy.

“Husserl, Dummett, and the Linguistic Turn,” forthcoming in Grazer Philosophische Studien

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