Office: 224-B
Phone: 290 32 41
Email: ksorrell@bilkent.edu.tr
Dr. Kory Sorrell earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Pennsylvania State University in 2000 and a J.D. from The Yale Law School in 2002. He has published articles on American Pragmatism, ethics, feminist epistemology, international rights and corporate law. His book, Representative Practices: Peirce, Pragmatism, and Feminist Epistemology, was published in 2004 by Fordham University Press in its renowned American Philosophy Series. His current areas of interest include American Pragmatism, moral and political philosophy, and jurisprudence.
Dr. Sorrell also coordinates activities for The Bilkent Dewey Project: An Initiative for Pragmatism Studies in Turkey.
Publications:
“Sentimental Education: Critical Common Sense and the Social Intuitionist Model in Psychology,” forthcoming in The Pluralist
“Peirce, Immediate Perception, and the “New” Unconscious: Neuroscience and Empirical Psychology in Support of a “Well-Known Doctrine,” forthcoming in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
“Our Better Angels: Empathy, Sympathetic Reason, and Pragmatic Moral Progress,” The Pluralist, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Spring 2014), 66-86.
“Pragmatism and Moral Progress: John Dewey’s Theory of Social Inquiry,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39 (8), October 2013, 809-824.
John Dewey’s Ethics: Democracy as Experience, by Gregory Fernando Pappas, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 48, No. 2, Spring 2012, 245-248. [book review]
“Principled Legal Pragmatism: Reconciling Posner and Dewey on Law and Democracy,” St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 2011, 246-292.
Legal Pragmatism: Community, Rights, and Democracy, by Michael Sullivan. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 46, No. 1, Winter 2010, 149-154. [book review]
“The Specter Haunting Option Grants: Common Issues, New SEC Rules, and Emerging Remedial Measures,” with Paul H. Dawes, Pension & Benefits, January 2007, Vol. 7, No. 5.
“Stock Options: Past Practices and Narrowing Choices Amid the Backdating Scandal,” with Paul H. Dawes, Securities Litigation Report, September 2006, Volume 3, No. 8; also appeared in Wall Street Lawyer, September 2006, Vol. 10, No. 9.
Representative Practices: Peirce, Pragmatism, and Feminist Epistemology. Fordham University Press, October, 2004.
“Authority, Epistemic Privileging, and Democratic Deliberation,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2003, 77-87.
“Cultural Pluralism and International Rights,” The Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, The Tenth Anniversary Issue, Vol. 10:2, Fall 2003, 369-418.
“Peirce and a Pragmatic Reconception of Substance,”Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Spring 2001, 257-295.
“Feminist Ethics and Dewey’s Moral Theory,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Winter 1999, 89-114.