Amy Karofsky
Associate Professor of Philosophy
212 Heger Hall
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549-1150
In the Department of Philosophy at Hofstra University, I teach
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Atheism, and Philosophic Themes in Film.
I used to work on the philosophy of Augustine, Aquinas, Su‡rez,
Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza, focusing particular attention upon each
philosopherÕs attempt to reconcile genuine contingency in a world created by a
necessary being.
I now work to defend the doctrine of necessitarianism
– the doctrine that everything about the world is absolutely necessary,
and nothing could have been otherwise.
My recent CV
Some of my recent classes:
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Some of my published papers:
Descartes is not a Conceptualist
Su‡rez's Influence on Descartes's Theory of Eternal Truths
God, Modalities, and Conceptualism
Su‡rez' Doctrine of Eternal Truths
The Primitiveness of Leibnizian Alethic Modalities
Some of my unpublished papers:
A Meta-Modal Refutation of Contingentarianism
A Necessitarian Account of Counterfactuals