Fall 2025
This fall, undergraduate philosophy major Nick Padilla will be working with Dr. Sharon Mason to develop a new undergraduate textbook for 17th and 18 century European philosophy (also called Early Modern Philosophy). Since 2018, Dr. Mason has been developing course resources that address the gap between current scholarship and available introductory textbooks for this course. After having presented her research at the APA Central in 2020, published two sections on the professional blog for the American Philosophical Association in 2022, and her acceptance to a prestigious NEH Institute in Summer 2022 on the topic, Dr. Mason will be taking almost 200 pages of typed notes she has written for her students over the past 8 years and turning them into a textbook that is available for widespread use. Nick will be working on organization and correct formatting of references, developing study questions for students, and giving a valuable student perspective on the effectiveness of various sections of the textbook as they develop. The assistantship is made possible by funding through the recently-developed Honors Undergraduate Research Assistant program.