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SPRING 2009
FACULTY
Michael Bergmann’s paper “Evidentialism and the Great Pumpkin Objection” is forthcoming in Evidentialism and its Discontents, ed. Trent Dougherty (Oxford University Press). His book, Justification without Awareness (Oxford 2006), was the subject of an Author-Meets-Critic session at the Central APA in Chicago in February. In January, he presented a paper (“Externalist Justification and the Role of Appearances”) to the philosophy department at the University of Notre Dame and in June he will be one of the invited speakers at the 6th Annual Episteme Conference, to be held at Northwestern University, presenting a paper entitled “Rational Disagreement after Full Disclosure”.
Rod Bertolet accepted an invitation to join the Board of Editorial Consultants for American Philosophical Quarterly (term 2009-2012). He is also a member of the APA Central Division Program Committee for the 2011 meetings.
Daniel Frank was elected to the Board of Directors, Association for Jewish Studies (term 2009-2012).
Donald Mitchell organized and hosted an exchange program for religious studies professors from five Southeast Asian universities with funding from the United States Department of States. The group spoke at Purdue University, Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago and Georgetown University. A return exchange by American professors of religious studies is planned for December of this year.
Patrick Kain’s article “Kant's Defense of Human Moral Status” recently appeared in Journal of the History of Philosophy. He was also pleased to host a Fulbright Scholar, Mr. Juan Iosa from
Charlene Haddock Seigfried was presented with the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy’s highest award, the Herbert Schneider Award for 2009, given for her “distinguished contribution to the understanding and development of American Philosophy”. She was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Pragmatism and the Ethics of Belief, at the Nordic Pragmatism Network in Finland, where her paper was “Distinguishing Myth from Reality: Are James’ and Dewey’s Pragmatic Tools Sufficient?” She also has a chapter, “Thinking Desire: Taking Perspectives Seriously,” in Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey and another on “Jane Addams’s Principled Compromises,” in Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Erik Baldwin’s chapter, “Hiro Nakamura and Bushido: Is Hiro a Samurai?”, recently appeared in Heroes and Philosophy and his paper, “On the Prospects of an Islamic Externalist Account of Warrant”, is forthcoming in Some Perspectives From Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today. He also has reviews of Richard Swinburne’s Was Jesus God? forthcoming in The Religious Studies Review and of J.L. Schellenberg’s The Wisdom to Doubt forthcoming in Kinesis. Next year Baldwin will be a visiting graduate student at the Center for Philosophy of Religion,
Somaieh Emamjomeh presented a paper "Demonic Silence" at the Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference in February.
Erik Hanson and Erik Baldwin’s article, “Grounding a Transcendent Ethic of Love: Kierkegaard and Daoism,” has been accepted for publication in Kinesis.
Erik Hanson delivered a paper, “Is Kierkegaard’s Comparison of Kant to Sancho Panza a Critque of the Law of Autonomy?”, at the Pacfic APA and has a paper on Soren Kierkegaard and Thomas Merton forthcoming in Kierkegaard Research: Sources Reception and Resources.
Brian Kanouse has an article, "The Post-Structural Effect on the Life-World: Re-thinking Critical Subjectivity and Ethics through Existential Performance and the Constitutive Power of Performativity" forthcoming in Existentialism and Phenomenology in the Twentieth Century, (ed) A.- T. Tymieniecka.
Mickey Lorkowski’s article “The Miracle of Moses” recently appeared in The Heythrop Journal. He presented a paper, “Modal and Ontological Intuitions,” at the 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference at Kent State University in March (the paper will be published online at http://philosophy.kent.edu/journal/). He also has a review of The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosopy forthcoming in The Religious Studies Review.
David Midtvedt received an Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in April.
Corey Miller’s article “A Critique of Marx’s Philosophy of Religion from Religious Epistemology” was recently accepted at the International Philosophical Quarterly and his review of David Novak’s Natural Law in Judaism is forthcoming in Philosophia Christi.
Sophia Stone’s chapter "Why is Stephen Colbert Funny?" recently appeared in Stephen Colbert and Philosophy (Open Court Books).