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Rico Vitz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy		 Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5813
Email: rvitz@apu.edu
Rico Vitz, Ph.D., specializes in early modern philosophy. His research focuses on questions about moral psychology and philosophy of religion in the works of Rene Descartes and David Hume. He is the author of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature Virtue and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology (Springer, forthcoming) and the editor of Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith (St Vladimir's Seminary Press).

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
M.S., University of Utah
B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills

Departments

  • School of Theology
    • Undergraduate: Department of Theology & Philosophy
    • Undergraduate Division of Religion and Philosophy

Courses Taught

HUM 324 – Humanities Seminar IV: Great Ideas
PHIL 220 – Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 300 – Ethics
PHIL 320 – History of Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL 495 – Seminar in Philosophy

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