Creighton Rosental Email Address

Professor of Philosophy

Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,300 students in 11 schools and colleges - liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies - on major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at four regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program.

I am currently working on two major projects. The first is in developing new approaches to teaching and studying logic by identifying connections between the foundations of logic and other areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, language, etc. The second is to apply philosophical reasoning, perspectives, and approaches to real-life problems. Some recent projects have included: community building and social improvement through the arts and through ethics; identifying problems plaguing people resulting from our information-saturated lives and developing techniques to combat those problems; and understanding the nature of games, play, and entertainment and how these activities affect us.