Michigan State University

Department of Philosophy

Degree:	Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching Areas:	Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, History of Early Modern Philosophy
Interests:	Professor Susse's primary interest lies in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science--specifically questions concerning reductionism, explanation, supervenience, emergentism, and physicalism. Her dissertation is a defense of nonreductive physicalism from the armchair criticism that it is false, incoherent, and unstable. In the course of her thesis work, she became interested in several earlier debates in metaphysics/philosophy of science - particularly in the British emergentists, the debates over scientific explanation that occurred in the 50s and 60s, and early modern accounts of causation and explanation.
Address:	519 S. Kedzie Hall Michigan State University Department of Philosophy East Lansing, MI 48824-1032 Email: susse@msu.edu http://www.msu.edu/~susse/ Telephone: (517) 353-9377