The best way to contact me is
by email: <gwitmer> You can also call me at
my office: (352) 392-2084 ext.
209.
My office is located at 115B
Griffin-Floyd Hall. My office is
one of the small handful of philosophy offices that is on the first floor of
Griffin-Floyd Hall. Next to room
100 on that first floor is an entrance labeled "115" that leads to a
suite of offices; go down that hallway to find mine on the left.
Office hours for Spring 2008:
Tuesdays 3 PM - 5 PM
Thursdays 4 PM - 5 PM
And by appointment
Occasionally
students ask permission to come by during regular office hours, but no
permission is needed. Regular
office hours are times during which you can simply walk in with questions or
the like; no appointment is needed.
Of course, there may be a line at such times.
See here for the
current CLASS POLICIES AND DETAILS document. If you are taking one of my classes this semester you are
responsible for the contents of this document.
See here for the
current ESSENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL TOOLS document. This is a document I've developed for students in my
undergraduate classes covering a variety of basic points on argumentation,
common philosophical terms, and advice on writing philosophy papers.
The Florida
Student Philosophy Blog was
created in January 2007 as a venue for philosophy discussion by students, both
at the undergraduate and graduate level.
It includes announcements of conferences and contests as well as general
discussion of a very wide range of topics.
The American
Philosophical Association is the
primary professional organization for philosophers in the United States. The Florida
Philosophical Association is an
organization for those of us in Florida.
You may wish to attend one of the FPA's annual conferences; you might
also want to submit a paper for consideration in their annual undergraduate
essay contest. See their page for
details.
As I point out in the
"Essential Philosophical Tools" handout, you should be quite careful
in making use of any outside sources in writing your own papers. That said, if you want to browse an
excellent online source of information on philosophy, you should look at the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The entries in the SEP are often quite
advanced and can be very intimidating; still, you may find it interesting
simply to browse the entries. The UF Library's Philosophy Resources page provides an excellent list of links to various
other sources online. If you use
these or any other outside sources at any point in working on your own papers, I
strongly recommend that you do
so only after you've already
made extensive efforts on your own to tackle the material in the class. Further, of course, you need to
remember to provide a proper citation for any such sources; failure to do so
will constitute academic dishonesty.
(If you have any questions about such citation or the like, do feel free
to ask me.)