Recent Student Accomplishments

The Philosophy Club held the Philosophy Symposium (April 2-April 3, 2011), a regional conference for undergraduate philosophy students. The weekend conference featured presentations by participants representing several of the area's colleges and universities, including The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Oakland Community College, and Washtenaw Community College. Ashley Polinski and Amanda Hutchens were the main organizers of the Philosophy Symposium.

Amanda Hutchens presented a paper at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in 2011. Her paper was awarded Best Paper out of over one hundred submissions, and her paper will also be published in the journal Res Cogitans.

Ryan Ziegler was awarded a merit scholarship for full tuition to attend Indiana University's College of Law. 

David Boeving was awarded the EMU College of Business Merlanti Business Ethics Award (awarded annually to a PHIL 221 student). 

Jacob Kuhn published "Centrism and Science as Instruments of Hegemonic Control: Val Plumwood's Environmental Culture" in EcoJustice Review.

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, 2010.
  • “The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity: A New Approach in Philosophy of Action,” Philosophy East & West, vol. 60, no. 2 (2010).
  • Artist in Residence at OBRAS in Portugal, June 2010.
  • "Spontaneity and the Somatic Arts in China, OBRAS, Portugal, June 2010.

Professor Margaret Crouch

  • Presentation: "Sexual Harrassment in the Academy," International Social Philosophy Conference, July 2010, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
  • Presentation: "Sexual Harassment in the Academy," Oxford Round Table, March 2010, Oxford, UK.
  • "Sexual Harassment and Women's Sexual Honor." FEAST, September, 2009, Tampa, Florida.
  • "Gender and Online Education," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (forthcoming).
  • President, North American Society for Social Philosophy
Professor Jill Dieterle
  • “"Social Construction in the Philosophy of Mathematics:  A Critical Evaluation of Julian Cole's Theory," Philosophia Mathematica (forthcoming).
  • Review of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals in Environmental Ethics, Spring 2010.
  • "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

  • Co-authored publication, "Chemical action: what is it, and why does it really matter?" Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Special Focus Issue: Governance of Nanobiotechnology; Feb 4, 2011)
  • Presentation: “(Anti)Realism and the Success of Science?” Chair, Symposium: Theories of Lawhood in the Sciences, Philosophy of Science Association, 2009.

Professor Peter Higgins

  • "Immigration Justice:  A Principle for Selecting Just Admissions Policies," Social Philosophy Today, volume 25, 2009.
  • Presentation: "What Immigration Policies are Just?" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (Toronto, July 2010) and the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (Boulder, August 2010).
  • 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

Professor Kate Mehuron

  • “Philosophical Practice in a Psychotherapeutic World,” Contemporary Psychotherapy 3:1 (Spring 2011)
  • Presentation: "Disrupting the Normalization of Clinical Notions of Trauma," Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, International Association of Women Philosophers Symposium, University of Western Ontario, June 2010.
  • Review of Ron Bontekoe, The Nature of Human Dignity. In Metapsychology Online Reviews (15:8) February 2011
  • Managing Editor, Philosophical Practice, Journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association.

Professor Mike Reed

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

Professor Michael Scoville

  • Presentation: “A Defense of Integrity as a Conservation Concept,” the joint meeting of the International Society of Environmental Ethics and The American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, December 29, 2010
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