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2007-2008 Department Highlights
SPRING 2008
FACULTY
Jacqueline Mariña's book, Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2008, has appeared.
Martin Curd has co-edited, along with Stathis Psillos, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Routledge). David Papineau wrote in his review that "There is no better guide to the philosophy of science on the market." http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Philosophy-of-Science-isbn9780415354035
Martin Matustik's Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations will appear with Indiana University Press.
Michael Jacovides's paper "How is Descartes's Argument Against Skepticism Better Than Putnam's?" recently appeared in Philosophical Quarterly. His chapter "Locke's Distinctions Between Primary and Secondary Qualities" is in "The Cambridge Companion to Locke" 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding'.
Christopher Pincock's paper "Russell's Last (and Best) Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgement" is forthcoming in Mind.
Kristie Dotson presented "Avoiding Super-Philosophy: Difference and the Politics of Defiance" at a special session of the American Philosophical Association Easter Division meeting in Baltimore arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness.
Daniel Kelly, along with co-author Erica Roedder, has an article on "Racial Cognition and The Ethics of Implicit Bias" forthcoming in Philosophy Compass. http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/
Dan Frank has written "Divine Law and Human Practices," in The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century, eds. Steven Nadler and T.M. Rudavsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
Daniel W. Smith co-authored, with John Protevi, the entry on “Deleuze” for the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). He presented a colloquium paper entitled “Logic and Existence: Deleuze on the ‘Conditions of the Real’” to the philosophy departments at Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and DePaul University. In the summer, he traveled to Australia and India, and presented a paper on “Sensation, Thought, and Design” at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, Gujurat.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Jonathan Beever presented "The As is Through the As if: Baudrillard and Simulated Ecology" at the 2007 Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America.
Jillian Canode gave a talk on "Love of Mother" Irigaray's Love and Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother" to the Luce Irigaray Circle in Manhattan in September 2007.
Vern Cisney's "Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben" will appear in the Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Kurt Liebegott will present "Why the Responsibilty Objection to Thomson's Abortion Argument Must Fail" at the Central Division of American Philosophical Association meeting in Chicago in April.
Nicolae Morar and Jonathan Beever continue to do excellent work coordinating the Bioethics Seminar Series with four talks scheduled this semester. http://www.purdue.edu/biothethics
FALL 2007
FACULTY
William McBride, the first American Secretary General of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), has been nominated by several member societies as well as several individual members of the Steering Committee of FISP for election to the Presidency of the organization. The election will take place during the next quinquennial World Congress of Philosophy, to be held next summer in Seoul, Korea.
Paul Draper is in the process of publishing an eBook, God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence. Parts, including a debate with Plantinga on the problem of evil, are now available on the Secular Web and the rest should be online by the end of the year. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_draper/
Patricia Curd's Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia has just been published by University of Toronto Press. http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8978&step=4
Martin Matustik gave the annual Gannon Lecture at Fordham University on "The Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations on Radical Evil" in October. http://stage.web.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/Public_Affairs/topstories_1003.asp
Michael Bergmann's book Justification Without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism (Oxford, 2006) was recently reviewed by Richard Fumerton for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Fumerton writes "It is one of the best books in epistemology that I have read over the past couple of decades and it is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the fundamental metaepistemological debates that dominate contemporary epistemology." http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=9104
Jacqueline Marina's book Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Oxford) has gone to the press and will appear early in 2008. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199206377
Jeff Brower's paper "Aquinas on Mental Representation", co-authored with Susan Brower-Toland, has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Review. A preprint is available at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~brower.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Shannon Nason was awarded a fellowship to pursue his dissertation research at the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College during the summer of 2007.
Paul Gould has edited, along with William L. Craig, a book The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind (Crossway). http://www.gnpcb.org/product/9781581349399
Erik Baldwin and Mike Thune co-authored a paper together "The Epistemological Limits of Experience-Based Exclusive Religious Belief." It is forthcoming in Religious Studies.
Chris Tucker's "Agent Causation and the Alleged Impossibility of Rational Free Action" recently appeared in Erkenntnis (67 (2007): 17-27).
Jason Waller's "Spinoza on the Incoherence of Self- Destruction" is forthcoming in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Allan Hillman's "The Early Russell on the Metaphysics of Substance in Leibniz & Bradley" is forthcoming in Synthese. A preprint is available at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~thillman/Leibniz_RussellSyndraft1.pdf.