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Dissertation Defenses

2013

2012

Matt Bower

Michael Burroughs - "Ideal Adults, Deficient Children: The Discourse on the Child in Western Philosophy"

Heidi Samuelson - "Out of Joint: The Nexus of Madness and Time-Consciousness"

Cheri Carr - "Deleuze's Critical Philosophy: The Differential Theory of the Faculties"

Arsalan Memon - "The Problem of Perception, Radical Reflection, and the Body: Towards Understanding Merleau-Ponty’s Post-Kantian Transcendental Philosophy"

Publications

2013

2012

Desiree Ramacus-Bushnell. Review of Nicholas Buccola, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Forthcoming in Journal of American Studies.

Nicolás Garrera. “La experiencia ética como evento y fuente de normatividad,” in Cuadernos Filosóficos (Segunda Época), No.IX, December 2012: 11-23.

Presentations

2013

2012

Josh Dohmen will be presenting "The Bios that Binds Us: Care Ethics and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Disability" at the 7th Annual philoSOPHIA Conference in Banff, Canada on “Bios: Feminist Philosophies of Life.”

Alice Everly will be presenting “Foucault, Discontinuity, and the Moral Value of Biological Life” at philoSOPHIA in May.

Marygrace Hemme will be presenting "Feminine Genius and the Importance of Narrating Lives" at philoSOPHIA in May.

Sarah Marshall will be presenting "The Rebirth of Zoē: Ingenious Biography and the Future of the Polis” at philoSOPHIA in May.

Matt Bower will be presenting "Method and Motivation for Phenomenological Reconstruction in Husserliana 39" in a plenary session of the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists at Ramapo College.

Sarah Vincent presented "Zoo Hermeneutics and Non-Human Animals" at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference at Rhodes College.

Chris Lucibella presented "Deviations from the Norm: The Danger of Classifying Intersex Conditions as Disorders" at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2012 Annual Conference in Auckland, New Zealand AND "The Rightfulness of Unauthorized Publication: Kant and Hegel on Intellectual Property" at the University of Pennsylvania Philosophy Graduate Student Conference.

Josh Dohmen presented "Freedom Enabled: Reflections on the Concept of Freedom from the Disability Perspective" at Disability Issues and Advocacy Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Matt Bower presented "Spatiality and its Genesis in Husserl's Transcendental Aesthetic" at the annual meeting of the Seminar in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy in South Bend, IN.

Nicolás Garrera presented "Ethical Experience as Event and Source of Normativity" at the 51st Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Rochester, NY.

Justin Sledge presented "Sense Beyond Sense: John Dee, Angelic Language and the Early-Modern Crisis of Representation" at UC Berkeley Modern Group's conference on the theme of "Inarticulacy."

Foreign Study, Summer Schools, and Workshops

2012

Nicolás Garrera defended an MA dissertation at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as the closure of a two-year stay in Europe with the “Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie” program. Dissertation's title: “Méthode phénoménologique, affectivité et éthique chez Henry et Levinas” (“Phenomenological Method, Affectivity, and Ethics in Henry and Levinas”). Director: László Tengelyi.

Alice Everly attended the Third Annual International Summer School in German Philosophy: Bonn, Germany and presented a paper entitled “The Ontological Turn in Contemporary Philosophy.”

Matt Bower was a visiting researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He participated in the annual summer school on Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mind while there.

Paul Hammond attended the International Summer School in Political Philosophy in Istanbul, Turkey and presented a paper titled "Hegel's Theory of Social Groups."