Contact Professor Iverson: viverson@hsc.edu

As a teacher, I am interested in how students can become better thinkers, better readers, and better writers.  So, when I teach Logic, History of Philosophy, or Philosophy of Religion, I am asking those questions along with questions about the subject matter we are studying.  I have had special training in philosophical and religious thought but my interest in asking those other questions has come through years of teaching experience and from conversations with my wife.  I am deeply committed to a liberal arts education and my years of teaching in our Humanities program have enriched my own understanding as well, I hope, as the understanding of my students.  Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton have become important influences for me along with Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Freud, and Heidegger.

The past five summers my wife and I have traveled to Edinburgh, Oxford, and London.  We enjoyed browsing in bookstores, visiting art museums, and eating at good restaurants.  We also like to visit our two daughters who live in Boulder and Chicago.  We try to spend a little time each summer on the Outer Banks.

I like to read murder mysteries and work on new Math and Logic puzzles.  I get pleasure out of maintaining our Departmental bulletin board in the basement of Morton.

One of my favorite philosophical quotations is from The Journals of Kierkegaard: "Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward."