Russell Marcus

Russell Marcus is a philosopher specializing in philosophy of mathematics and the pedagogy of philosophy. He is Chair of Philosophy at Hamilton College and president of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers.^[1]

Education and career

Prior to his work in philosophy, Marcus taught mathematics and other subjects at high schools in New York City and Costa Rica.^[1] He received his bachelor of arts in philosophy at Swarthmore College in 1988. He received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2007,^[2] where he wrote his dissertation "Numbers without Science".^[3] While at graduate school, he taught philosophy and mathematics at Queens College, Hofstra University and the College of Staten Island.^[1][2] He began teaching at Hamilton College in 2007, later setting up the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy.^[1] He gained tenure in 2016 and was appointed Chair of Philosophy in 2020.^[2][4] In 2020, he won the American Philosophical Association's Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching which "recognizes a philosophy teacher who has had a profound impact on the student learning of philosophy in undergraduate and/or pre-college settings", being cited as an "important scholar of teaching and learning in philosophy" for his summer program and "inventive team-based pedagogies and exemplary scaffolded assignments".^[1]

Books

• Marcus, Russell (2015). Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-7313-8.^[5]
• Marcus, Russell; McEvoy, Mark, eds. (2016). An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4725-2534-5.^[6]
• Marcus, Russell (2017). Introduction to Formal Logic with Philosophical Applications. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-938648-2.