Benjamin Shaeffer's Materials for Review
This page is for the use of those writing evaluative letters for Benjamin Shaeffer's 2012-2013 promotion file for Full Professor. Here's a copy of the letter sent to alumni, which gives particulars about writing--receipt deadline (October 25th, 2012), methods of sending, to whom letters should be addressed, the requirement that letters be signed and dated, etc. Similar requests have been sent to peers and current students.
Personnel policies governing promotion are covered in the Humboldt State University Faculty Handbook's Appendix J. The criteria regarding promotion to full professor are on pages 18-19 of the following .pdf document. Pages 16-18 provide guidance regarding the areas to be assessed.
Faculty Handbook Appendix J
The Philosophy Department's approved Criteria
for Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Decisions, as filed on the Academic Personnel Services website. These give specific guidance on what level of accomplishment is expected for each area to be evaluated.
Shaeffer's c.v. Summary
Shaeffer's main web page (which is currently only this page with supporting documents).
Recent Teaching Evaluations
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Teaching Evaluations, Set One
Philosophy 382, now renumbered as 342, History of Philosophy, Rationalists and Empiricists. The major requires this course as part of the requirement to do two years of history of western philosophy and one year of history of Asian philosophy.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Two
Philosophy 485, Seminar in Philosophy. Students are required to take two seminars for the major. Faculty rotate offering these and get to teach them every fifth or sixth semester. I taught on Wittgenstein's later works.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Three
These are from the Philosophy 306, Race, Racism, and Philosophy course which I developed. I have also drafted a prospectus for a textbook, which is linked under Work in Progress on this page.
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Teaching Evaluations, Set Four
From the Philosophy 306, Race, Racism, and Philosophy, Summer 2011.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Five
Phil 382, History of Philosophy, Renaissance through Rationalists , Spring 2011.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Six
from Phil 341, History of Philosophy: PreSocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Fall 2011.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Seven
Phil 107, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2011.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Eight
Phil 382, History of Philosophy: Renaissance through Rationalists.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Nine
Phil 306, Race, Racism, and Philosophy, Spring 2010.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Ten
Phil 371, Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy, Spring 2010.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Eleven
Phil 391 (overload, co-taught) Seminar/Reading Group, Science vs. Philosophy, Spring 2010.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Twelve
Phil 301, Reflections on Art, Fall 2009.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Thirteen
Phil 420, Contemporary Epistemology and Metaphysics, Fall 2009.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Fourteen
Phil 380, History of Philosophy: PreSocratics, Plato, Aristotle.
- Teaching Evaluations, Set Fifteen
Phil 391 (overload), Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology, Fall 2009.
Recent Research and Scholarly Presentations