Undergraduate Symposium Presentations

These students were sponsored in the Undergraduate Symposium for papers they wrote in philosophy classes:

2007-2008

Jacob Richard Kuhn
Kasandra David
Colin Loomis
Mathew A. Steward
William B. Martin

2006-2007

Edward Gardner
Sarah Hipel
Danielle Nichols
Veronica Pear
Rebecca Traynor
Kyle Verge

Alumni News

Courtney Hough (2007) is participating in Teach for America. (http://www.teachforamerica.org/)

Drew Delaney (2007) is in the M.A. program in Philosophy at Ohio University.

Karen McCarthy (2006) is in the M.A. program in Philosophy at the University of Toledo.

Rebecca Traynor (2006) is in the M.A. program in Philosophy at the University of Toledo.

Kellen Myers (2006) is in law school at Indiana State University School of Law.

Michelle Marhofer (2006) is finishing her M.A. in History in EMU's History M.A. program this year and begins an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Toledo.

Eric Fairchild (2006) is spending the year in Taiwan.

Mohammed Abouzahr (2005) is in a Ph.D. program in Philosophy at Wayne State University.

April Hall (2005) is in a Ph.D. program in Philosophy at the University of Ilinois at Chicago.

Putnam Trumbull is in an M.A. program in film at New York University, Singapore.

Don Walker (2005) is working at Farm Sanctuary.

Michael Matrescu, an EMU graduate from the 1990s, is in an M.A. program at the University of Michigan Schoool of Information.

Daniel Strand, an EMU graduate from the 1990s, just completed his Ph.D. at Emory University. Dr. Strand taught English in South Korea and Chile after completing his Bachelors at EMU, and traveled extensively through Korea, Japan, Thailand and Chile before returning to philosophy.

Recent Faculty Publications and Presentations

Professor Brian Bruya

• "Education and Responsiveness: On the Agency of Intersubjectivity," in Roger T. Ames and Peter Hershock (eds.), Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.
• "Schools that Flow" (co-authored with Professor Russ Olwell of the History Section), Education Week.
• "On the Absence of an Anti-Confucian Polemic in the Laozi," Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 2007. 
• Presentation on the cognitive science of effortless attention, Psychological Capital Group, University of Pennsylvania Medici Conference.

Professor Margaret Crouch

• "The Concept of Sexual Harassment in Brazil," North American Society for Social Philosophy Twenty-Fourth International Social Philosophy Conference, July 2007.
• "Sexual Harassment in Latin America," Oxford Round Table on Women's Rights, April 2007
• "Sexual Harassment in Turkey," EMU Women's History Month, March 2007.
• Professor Crouch has been invited to write two articles on sexual harassment for the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, published by Thompson/Gale.

• “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 Kate Mehuron

• “The Philosophical Counselor and the Life Coach: Rapprochement?” Accepted for presentation, American Society for Philosophical Counseling and Practice, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2008
  
• “A Model of Supervision in Philosophical Counseling Practice”; Co-Organizer and Advisory Board Member: International Conference for Philosophical Practice, Purdue University, Calumet, Indiana, May, 2007
• “Encountering the Diagnosis in Philosophical Counseling Practice,” Philosophical Practice (3:2) 2008, forthcoming
• Review of Peter Raabe (ed.) Philosophical Counselling and the Unconscious. In Philosophical Practice (3:3) 2008, forthcoming
• “The Depathologization of Everyday Life: Implications for Philosophical Counseling,”  International Journal of Philosophical Practice ( 2:3) 2005

Professor Mike Reed

• "More Philosophical Pretense:  Dennett, Neuroscience, and Psychological Concepts," Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, March 2007.