Part Time Faculty
Christopher Noble
Part-Time Faculty
Christopher Noble
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall North 222
Telephone: 617-552-4701
Email: noblecb@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Boston College
- Ph.D., Villanova University
Courses
Philosophy of the Person I and II
Office Hours
W 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Department
Biography
I graduated from Boston College in 2005 with a degree in Philosophy and German Studies. After a year of study in Freiburg, Germany, I went on to complete my Ph.D. in philosophy at Villanova University in 2016 with a dissertation on Leibniz's conception of the soul as a self-moving "spiritual automaton." My areas of interest are Early Modern Philosophy (especially. Leibniz), the History and Philosophy of Science, Continental Philosophy, and the Global History of Philosophy.
Since 2018, I have taught at New College of Florida, a small public liberal arts honors college. At New College, I have taught courses in the history of philosophy (e.g. Modern Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Early Modern Women Philosophers), the philosophy of science, and on philosophical themes in literature and film. I am currently on leave from my position at New College and am teaching part-time at BC while I complete a book project on the concept of the "spiritual automaton" in modern European Philosophy. The book analyzes the development of the concept in figures including Spinoza, Leibniz, and Deleuze, as well as its rejection by figures including Descartes, Kant, and Badiou.