Colena Sesanker, Ph.D.

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Social Sciences Adjunct Faculty

Department of Human Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
About Colena

IÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™m UConn born and raised - in higher education, anyway. I started my college education with a degree in physiological psychology and then got interested in philosophy as it relates to how our minds interact with and interpret the world around us. 

I spent quite a few years focused on mathematical and scientific constructivism: on the ways in which our minds create mathematical and other theoretical structures as tools to make sense of the world.   But, these days, IÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™m more focused on social constructions: on how we create our selves. In particular, how itÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™s possible to construct oneÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™s identity and express oneÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™s freedom within social networks and languages whose constructions serve to oppress us or fail to accommodate our freedom in many ways. 

IÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ™ve been teaching philosophy for about 10 years.

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Research Interests
  • Non-classical logic
  • Autonomy
  • Oppression and resistance movements
  • Epistemic warrant
  • Structural equations - accounts of grounding
    • Courses Taught
    • Philosophy 101
    • Ethics
    • Medical Ethics
    • Non-Western Comparative Philosophy (Indian, Chinese and Africana)
    • Men, Women, Issues (structured around feminist theory and contemporary race and gender issues)
    • Logic
    Courses in Development
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Limits and Objectivity (the qualia problem of consciousness, incompleteness in mathematics, the is/ought problem in ethics, the problem of free willÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ¦)
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