Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
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Spring 2008
Faculty
Professor 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
Professor Martin Matustik's Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations will appear with Indiana University Press.
Professor 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.
Professor Christopher Pincock's paper "Russell's Last (and Best) Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgement" is forthcoming in Mind.
Professor 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.
Professor Dan 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/
Professor 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).
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
Faculty
Professor 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.
Professor 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/
Professor 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
Professor 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
Professor 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
Professor 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
Professor 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.