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Departmental Highlights
2011
FACULTY
Jeff Brower had an article, “Matter, Form, and Individuation” appear in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas (eds. Stump and Davies).
Michael Bergmann was a Fellow in Purdue’s Center for Humanistic Studies in the spring semester of 2011. In addition, he and Patrick Kain received a $550,000 grant, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and Purdue University, for a 3-year project (2010-2013) on “Knowing in Religion and Morality”. As a part of that project, Bergmann led a summer seminar in June 2011 for advanced graduate students and junior faculty on “Perceptual, Moral, and Religious Skepticism”. More information about the grant is available here: http://www.knowinginreligionandmorality.com/.
Patricia Curd was the Fall 2011 Watkins Lecturer in the Classical Studies Department at DePauw University, “Divinity and Knowledge in Xenophanes and Heraclitus.” She also gave a seminar on her work on Anaxagoras with a Classical Studies Department class on Early Greek Philosophy.
Paul Draper was a skeptical theism fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion. His forthcoming articles include: “Darwin’s Argument from Evil,” in Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Yujin Nagasawa (Palgrave Macmillan); “Christian Theism and Life on Earth,” in A Companion to Science and Christianity, ed. Alan Padgett and James Stump (Wiley-Blackwell); and “Faith without God: An Introduction to Schellenberg’s Trilogy,” Philo 14.1. In addition, Draper’s critical study of Eleonore Stump’s magnum opus, Wandering in Darkness: Narratives and the Problem of Suffering, appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews this past July.
Daniel Frank has two forthcoming articles: “Jewish Perspectives on Natural Theology” to appear in The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (ed. Russell Re Manning), and “Virtue, Happiness, and the Human Good,” to appear in The Blackwell History of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (forthcoming) . His article, “The Politics of Fear: Idolatry and Superstition in Maimonides and Spinoza,” also appeared in Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence (ed. Jonathan Jacobs).
Donald W. Mitchell has been chosen to be editor of a new academic journal: Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture. Claritas is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal with an international board of editors. Its focus is on religion and culture as well as ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. The first issue of this semiannual journal will appear in March 2012. The website can be accessed at: www.claritas-online.org
Charlene Haddock Seigfried won 2011 Joseph L. Blau prize for “Democracy as a Way of Life: Addams’ Pragmatist Influence on Dewey,” the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy’s award for the paper making the most significant contribution to the history of American Philosophy. She also had two articles appear, “Relating Identity and Diversity” in Identity and Social Transformation (eds. Ryder and Rodopi) and “Jane Addams” in International Encyclopedia of Ethics (ed. Hugh La Follette).
Christopher Yeomans' book, Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency, appeared in print December 2011 (Oxford University Press). In Spring of 2011, he presented his paper "Virtue and Individuality in Kant and Hegel" at the Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy, the APA Pacific Division meeting in San Diego, and the Illuminations lecture series of the Purdue Philosophy and Literature Program. His review of Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I: The Science of Logic (ed. and trans. Brinkmann and Dahlstrom) appeared in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on July 27, 2011. His paper "Hegel and Analytic Philosophy of Action" was published in The Owl of Minerva (2010-11).
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ashley Albrecht was recently hired as adjunct faculty in the Department of Philosophy at IUPU-FW, where she will be teaching both "Introduction to Philosophy" and "Ethics." In November, she presented a paper entitled "The Perverse Comedy: Masochist Play in Gibson's The Passion of the Christ" at CUNY's Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on "Desire." Also in November, Albrecht served as both a panel chair and commentator at the Illinois Philosophical Association 2011 Conference at NIU. Albrecht spent her summer teaching at Stanford University through Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth.
Johnathan Beever has a book, Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy, under contract with Purdue University Press (with Nicolae Morar). His article, “Meaning Matters: The Biosemiotic Basis of Bioethics,” also appeared in Biosemiotics.
Brian Besong presented the paper “Moral Intuitionism and Fundamental Disagreement” at the fall 2011 Central States Philosophical Association conference in St. Louis, MO. He also presented the paper “Prudence and a Properly Functioning Conscience: A New (and Old) Account of Moral Knowledge” at the fall 2011 Tennessee Philosophical Conference in Nashville, TN, and will be presenting the same paper to the Fordham Philosophical Society in February 2012.
David Coss presented a paper, “The Pitfalls of Pragmatic Encroachment,” at the Indiana Philosophical Association (Fall 2011).
