Office: Holland Hall 503B
Phone: 507-786-3277
Email: swain@stolaf.edu
Fall 2013 Office Hours: By appointment
Ph.D., M.A., Loyola University of Chicago; B.A. University of North Dakota
Areas of specialization include metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and history of modern philosophy – Hume. Professor Swain has taught at Loyola University, the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma. She has been a participant in NEH Summer Institutes, and in seminars on Hume at Dartmouth College and on Meaning Holism at Rutgers University. In addition, Professor Swain has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers, UCLA, and USC. She has published in Philosophical Studies, Nous, and Hume Studies. Currently President of the Hume Society and co-editor of Hume Studies with Saul Traiger, she was secretary-treasurer for the Hume Society from 2003-2008.