Recent Student Accomplishments

Kasandra David presented "Absent of Body, Absent of Mind: Problems with the Traditional Approach to the Artificial Intelligence Project" at The Wayne State University Philosophy Forum's 2nd Annual Undergraduate Conference, April 12, 2009.

Sean Wray is participating in the 2009 Woodenfish Humanistic Buddhist Monastic Life Program at Fo Guang Shan monastery in Taiwan this summer.

Jake Kuhn presented "Twelve and Twelvehood" at the Episteme Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Denison University, April 14, 2009. He will begin a Ph.D. program in Philosophy at Purdue University in Fall 2009 and has recently published an essay in EcoJustice Review.

Andrew Alexander (2008) presented "Deciphering Computer Mentality" at The Ohio
State University Undergraduate Conference on May 2, 2009.

Recent Faculty Publications and Presentations

Professor Brian Bruya

• Edited Volume: Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action, M.I.T. Press, forthcoming 2009.
• “The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity: A New Approach in Philosophy of Action,” Philosophy East & West, vol. 60, no. 2, forthcoming 2010.
• “Sensitivity & Responsiveness: Attention and the New S-R,” in Effortless Attention, M.I.T. Press, forthcoming 2009.
• Presentation: "Between Reason and Reflex: Elements of a Non-Deliberative Ethics," American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, 2008

Professor Margaret Crouch

• Presentation: "Gender and Online Education" at the Pacific American Philosophical Association, April, 2009.
  Forthcoming in the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computing, summer 2009.
  
• "Sexual Harassment in Public Places," Social Philosophy Today (25), forthcoming.
• “Sexual Harassment” and "Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986),"   Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, Thomson/Gale Publishing, 2008.

• “Unnecessary Suffering,” Environmental Ethics, Spring 2008.
• "Consent and the Waning of Trust,"  Oxford Round Table on Trust in Government, August 2007. 
• "Freedom of Conscience, Employee Prerogatives and Consumer Choice:  Veal, Birth Control and Tanning Beds,"  The Journal of Business Ethics 2007. 
• "Physician Assisted Suicide - A New Look at the Arguments," Bioethics, March 2007. 

Professor John Koolage

John Koolage defended his dissertation, “Realism and the Agreement of Independent Measurements” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2008.

• Presentation: “(Anti)Realism and the Success of Science?” Chair, Symposium: Theories of Lawhood in the Sciences, Philosophy of Science Association, 2009.

Professor Peter Higgins

Professor Higgins defended his dissertation Immigration Justice: A Principle for Constructing Just Admissions Policies at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2008.

• “Immigration Justice: A Principle for Constructing Just Admissions Policies,” Social Philosophy Today (forthcoming)
• Review of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality by Ayelet Shachar, Ethics (forthcoming)
• Review of In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World by Ari Kohen, Human Rights Review, June 2009
• “Open Borders and the Right to Immigration,” Human Rights Review, December 2008 (and response to comments by Richard Nunan)
• “Immigration Justice: A Principle for Constructing Just Admissions Policies,” to be presented at the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) Bi-Annual Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL., September 2009
• “Is There a Right to International Freedom of Movement?,” to be presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA., July 2009
• “Immigration Justice: A Principle for Constructing Just Admissions Policies,” presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, University of Portland, Portland, OR., July 2008

Kate Mehuron

• Presentation: “The Philosophical Counselor and the Life Coach: Rapprochement?” American Society for Philosophical Counseling and Practice, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2008
• "Supervision and Case Notes in Philosophical Counseling Practice," Philosophical Practice (4:2) 2009
  
• Review of Peter Raabe (Ed.) Philosophical Counselling and the Unconscious. In Philosophical Practice (4:1) 2009
• “Encountering the Diagnosis in Philosophical Counseling Practice,” Philosophical Practice (3:2) 2008

Professor Mike Reed

• Presentation: "Did Wittgenstein Offer a Successful Theory to Explain Necessity?," Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, March 2009.