Philosophy

Student News

Megan Henricks ('09)
Megan presented her paper entitled "Semantic and Pragmatic Paradoxes as Infelicitous Speech Acts" at the West Virginia University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.  The conference took place on April 4-5th, 2008.

Nathan Dailey ('09)
Nathan presented his paper entitled, "Free Actions of the Will in the Critique of Practical Reason" at the 12th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. He was also invited to present the paper at the Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, and to serve as a commentator at the Dartmouth Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.

Susan Stevens ('10)
Susan presented a paper at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.  The conference was April 18-19, and the title of her paper is "The Wrongness of Killing From Classical and Preference Utilitarian Perspectives."

Summer Studies and Research 2008

John Grauer ('09) will attend the The Ohio State University/Oxford University Joint Summer Law Program in  England.  

Ben Bennett ('10) is doing summer research on natural law moral and political theory.

Nathan Dailey ('09) is doing summer research on the relationship between Kant's moral theory and his metaphysics

David Zeile ('09) is doing summer research on Hume's problem of induction and Nelson Goodman's "grue" paradox.

2008 Graduates' Plans

Chris Barber will be attending the University of Wyoming at Laramie's graduate program in English.

Brian Casey will be employed as junior broker by BGC Partners in New York.

Stephanie Rozman will be attending the University of Minnesota's MA/PhD program in Art History.

Faculty News

Steve Vogel, professor
Dr. Vogel has presented at the Criticial Theory Round Table in St. Louis on October 2007.  He was also an invited participant in a workshop at the Hastings Center, Garrsion, NY, on November 8-9, presented at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy in Chicago on November 11 and at the Western Political Science Association meetings in San Diego on March 22.  In addition, he published a review of Thomas Heyd's "The Autonomy of Nature" in Human Ecology's February 2008 issue.

Dr. Vogel also presented at the Philosophy of Social Science conference in Prague on May 16, as well as at the conference on Critical Theory, John Cabot University in  Rome on May 23.  He will also present at the International Association for Environmental Philosophy at the University of Oregon on June 20 and at the conference on Climate Change, Restoration, and Flourishing at Clemson University on Sept. 5, 2008.

Barbara Fultner, associate professor
Dr. Fultner is the recipient of both the 2008-2009 University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowship and the Denison University R.C. Good Fellowship. While a fellow at the Institute, she will be working on a book manuscript on Meaning, Intersubjectivity, and Social Practice: Social Theories of Meaning.

During 2007-08, Dr. Fultner has presented a number of papers at national and international conferences, including "Vestiges of Incommensurability in Gadamer and Davidson," as part of an invited session at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, “Language, Lifeworld, and Intersubjectivity” at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Krakow, Poland, and “A Non-Essentialist Approach to Discourse and Gender,” at the Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2008.

Jonathan Maskit, assistant professor
Dr. Maskit recently published an essay, "'Line of Wreckage': Towards a Postindustrial Environmental Aesthetics" in Ethics, Place, and Environment, vol. 10.  In November 2007, Dr. Maskit presented "The Post-Industrial as Problem for Environmental Aesthetics" at the meetings of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy in Chicago.