Faculty & Staff Listing
2006-2007
Faculty & Staff Listing
2006-2007
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William H. Davis, Ph.D. (Rice) is interested in the Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; Epistemology; and Pragmatism. Among his publications are Peirce’s Epistemology, The Freewill Question and “Why be Moral?” |
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Gerard Elfstrom, Ph.D. (Emory) |
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| Dina Garmong, Ph.D. (The University of Texas at Austin) specializes in ethics. She is also interested in the history of ideas and political philosophy. She is currently working on a critique of virtue ethics. Her recent presentations include “Virtue Ethics: a Building Without a Foundation?” and “Comparative vs. Character-Based Models of Pride and Their Consequences” at the Alabama, Tennessee, and Midsouth Philosophy conferences. |
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Jody Graham, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University) is interested in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, theories of perception, and Medical Ethics and philosophical issues in feminism. Among her publications is “The Role of Suggestion in Berkeley’s Theory of Vision,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and “Room Enough For One: Towards a Solution for Color Incompatibility” in Philosophical Investigations. |
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Giovanni B. Grandi, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario) is interested in the History of Early Modern Philosophy. He has recently published an article on Thomas Reid, “Thomas Reid ’s Geometry of Visibles and the Parallel Postulate, ” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2005). His most recent presentations include “Thomas Reid ’s Direct Realism about Vision ” (Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy) and “Reid on Colour and the Perception of Visible Figure ” (Canadian Philosophical Association). |
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Arata Hamawaki, info TBA |
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Martin Henn holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy (1999, 1994) and an M.A. in Classics (1995) from the University of Kansas. AOS: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Aristotelian Metaphysics; Stoicism. AOC: Medieval Philosophy; Philosophy of Law. He has published several articles on Aristotelian metaphysics: e.g., “The Prospect of Positive Theology in Aristotle,” in The Modern Schoolman, vol. 77, no. 3 (2000). Has a book in print: Parmenides of Elea: A Verse Translation with Commentary and Notes to the Text, Praeger (2003). He has a second book on the way: Thomas Aquinas’s Earliest Treatment of Being and the Good, Global Scholarly Press (Forthcoming). Henn is currently doing work in classical philosophy of law with the aim of publishing a treatise on the origins of right. |
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Matt Hettche (Purdue) works in Kant, early German philosophy, and applied ethics. His current projects include a paper on Kant’s Antinomies and a paper on the ethics of corporate marketing practices. His most recent presentations include “Philosophy and the Limits of Armchair Cosmology” (Grinnell College) and “Revising Leibnizian Monads: Christian Wolff and the Metaphysical Foundations of Newtonian Science” (The Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Florida). |
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Howard Hewitt (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) specializes in moral and political theory. He has am M.A. from the University of Mississippi, and is currently finishing his Ph.D. dissertation entitled The Limits of Contractarian Moral Theory. He is also interested in metaethics and the history of philosophy. |
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Kelly Dean Jolley, Ph.D. (Rochester) works in the theory of judgment, the history of 20th-Century philosophy, metaphilosophy and philosophical psychology. He advises Phi Sigma Tau (the philosophy student honor society). Among his publications is “Logic’s Caretaker: Wittgenstein, Logic and the Vanishment of Russell’s Paradox,” in Philosophical Forum, and he is presently finishing a book on the “Concept ‘Horse’ Paradox.” He is currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy. |
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Roderick T. Long, Ph.D. (Cornell) specializes in Greek philosophy; moral psychology; ethics; philosophy of social science; and political philosophy (with an emphasis on libertarian/anarchist theory). He has also taught medieval philosophy and eastern philosophy. He is the author of Reason and Value: Aristotle Versus Rand (Objectivist Center, 2000); Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action (Routledge, forthcoming 2007); and a book manuscript on free choice and indeterminism in Aristotle. Roderick also edits the Journal of Libertarian Studies; co-edits the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies; runs the Molinari Institute and Molinari Society; maintains the department’s website as well as the website for the Alabama Philosophical Society; blogs at Austro-Athenian Empire; serves as faculty advisor to the AU Libertarians; and is a senior scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a member of the board of the Movement for a Democratic Society, Inc.. |
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Thomas Manig, Ph.D. (University of Missouri) is interested in social and political philosophy, logic, and the philosophy of science. He is a referee for Janua Sophia, the undergraduate journal of philosophy. |
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Eric Marcus, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh) works in the areas of philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Forthcoming papers include “Events, Sortals, and the Mind-Body Problem” in Synthese, and “Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum” in The Philosophical Quarterly. |
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Richard Penaskovic, Ph.D. (Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen) has over 100 publications to his credit. His book Critical Thinking and the Academic Study of Religion is now distributed by Duke University Press. His articles have appeared in The Heythrop Journal, Theological Studies, and Louvain Studies. Presently, he is Chair of the University Senate and of the University Faculty, representing circa 1,500 faculty to the upper administration at AU. |
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Irene Price, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin). My main interests and the bulk of my research are in 19th & 20th Century German Philosophy, primarily Nietzsche, and more recently in the Philosophy of Food. |
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Kalynne Pudner, Ph.D. (University of Virginia) specializes in ethics, with additional interests in the philosophies of education, law, religion and literature. Recent presentations include “Comment Me Back: Expectations of Intimacy in a Culture of Blog,” and “Fear and Loving in Ethics: Toward a Philosophical Conception of Self-Donative Human Flourishing.” She is currently working on the ethical and identity implications of computer-mediated communication, with a paper, “MySpace Friends and the Kingdom of Ends,” forthcoming in Philosophy of Education (2007). Other papers in process include “What We Can Learn from Mistaken Moral Claims,” “Googling Employees: Privacy vs. Integrity,” and “What’s So Bad about Self-Sacrifice? Effacement, Abnegation and Donation in Ethics.” |
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Guy Rohrbaugh, Ph.D. (UCLA) works primarily in metaphysics, but construes this broadly enough to include aesthetics, epistemology, mind, language, logic, ethical theory, and practical reason. His most recent publications include “Artworks as Historical Individuals” in European Journal of Philosophy, “Luminosity and the Safety of Knowledge” (with Ram Neta) forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and “A New Route to the Necessity of Origin” (with Louis deRosset) forthcoming in Mind. He is currently working on papers about the necessity of origin, modal approaches to the concept of knowledge, the metaphysics of events and processes, and consequentialist notions of practical rationality. |
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James Shelley, Ph.D. (Chicago) works mainly in aesthetics. Recent publications include “British aesthetics in the 18th century,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; “The Problem of Non-perceptual Art,” in The British Journal of Aesthetics; and “Imagining the Truth: An Account of Tragic Pleasure,” in Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts (Routledge Press). He is currently writing a book on Hume’s aesthetic theory. |
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Gretta Slabey (Arizona) specializes in philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and linguistic semantics. However, her interests tend to stray into other areas, including philosophy of mind, religion, and ethics. |
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Jonathan Sutton’s (Ph.D Rutgers) research is primarily epistemology and philosophy of language (those areas that are fundamentally more about thought than language).
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Jason Thibodeau (UCSD) is primarily interested in the philosophy of language and metaphysics and his interests extend to the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. His current projects include a paper about Wittgenstein’s standard meter bar and a paper concerning the role that linguistic intuitions play in arguments for the causal theory of reference. |
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Anton Tupa, Ph.D. (University of Florida) works primarily in ethics, broadly construed. He spends a significant amount of time working in applied ethics, but has research interests in ethical theory, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. His primary research interest is the concept of well-being, or what makes a life go well. Current works in progress include papers involving critiques of various theories of well-being and a paper on killing, letting die, and the morality of abortion. |
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Michael Watkins, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University) is interested in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics. Among his publications are “The Knowledge Argument Against ‘The Knowledge Argument’” Analysis; “Dispositionalism, Ostension, and Austerity” Philosophical Studies; (with Kelly Jolley) “What’s It Like to Be a Phenomenologist?” Philosophical Quarterly (April 1998); and “Do Animals See Colors? Some Thoughts About Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places” Philosophical Studies. His book Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism has just been published by Kluwer. |
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Stephen White, Ph.D. (Georgia) has a keen interest in the interdisciplinary nature of philosophical issues. He is the editor of a book entitled Population and the Environmental Crisis (1975). He has served as editor of National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal (1978-1993), and of The Child and Adolescent Newsletter (1993-94). His most recent interests include a study of the conceptual connections between the neurosciences and philosophy. |
Tibor R. Machan, Prof. Emer. |
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Delos B. McKown, Prof. Emer. |
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Kenneth Walters, Prof. Emer. |
Chair:
Kelly Dean Jolley
auburn.edu
