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Hannah Epstein
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Humboldt State
University
Philosophical Intrests:Asian Philosophy especially Theravada
Buddhist Ethics, Phenomenology, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Ethics, American
Philosophy, and some Feminism
John Hartnett
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, BA in Economics,
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana; MFA in Writing, Hamline University;
MA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College
Philosophical Intrests: Indain Philosophy and Literature,
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy in Literature
Michael Jennings
Previous Degree(s): BA in Economics, BS in Mathematics,
both from UNM
Philosophical Interests: Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Philosophy of Language.
Also, Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Plato, Epistemology, and, of course, Ethics (who isn't interested in Ethics?)
Garrette Ramos
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, BA in Communication,
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Philosophical Intrests: Ethics, Philosophy of
Religon, Existentialism, Nagarjuna, and Wittgenstein's later work
Vernon Smith
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Colorado College
Philosophical Intrests: Heidegger (and much of
the phenomenological tradition), Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Ancient
Greek Philosophy, Philosophy and Technology, non-traditional quests
for God, and matters of the heart
Thomas White
Previous Degree(s): BS in Economics & Finance, University
of Pennsylvania; BS in Medical Science, Alderson-Braoddus College; JD,
Newport University
Philosophical Intrests: Philosophy of Mind
PhD Students
Teresa Burke
Previous Degree(s): BA in Biology, Ethics and Society, Mills
College; MA in Philosophy, University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics, Bioethics,
Disability Studies, Deaf Studies
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: The moral justification of
using genetic technology to ensure the birth of deaf babies
David Burns
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, De Paul University
Philosophical Interests: The English language, both its history
and its ever growing and always changing and eternally playful vocabulary,
Continental Philosophy, and Literature especially Friedrich Nietzsche,
James Joyce, and Martin Heidegger
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Susanne Claxton
Previous Degree(s): BA in Letters, University of Oklahoma; MA
in Philosophy, Oklahoma State University
Philosophical Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Continental Philosophy,
Eastern Philosophy, Social & Politial Philosophy
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Laura Guererro
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Willamette University;
MA in Philosophy, University of Hawaii
Philosophical Interests: Buddhist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy,
Epistemology, Ethics, Pragmatism
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: Buddhist Moral Epistemology
Allison Hagerman
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Pacific University;
MA in Eastern Classics, St. John's College; MA in Philosophy,
University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: Aesthetics and Ethics, Heidegger,
Japanese aesthetics, the philosophy of Zen, Japanese Philosophy
in the 20th Century, Philosophy of Art, Ethics and Technology,
Eastern Religions and philosophy, German Idealism, Kant, Nietzsche,
and Feminist Philosophy
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: The plight of A. Hagerman's
dissertation is a heroic rescue and restoration of the Uncanny
from the forgotten B-sides of aesthetic discourse; Be sure to
tune in as she joins forces with the likes of Martin Heidegger,
Sigmund Freud, F.W.J. Schelling, E.T.A. Hoffman, Dogen, Keiji
Nishitani, and Yukio Mishima in calling forth that which was meant
to be kept hidden while sustainably maintaining the inexhaustibility
of shadows (over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly, through
a hogshead of REAL fire. In this way Mrs. H. will challenge the
WORLD!).
Tara Kennedy
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Salisbury State
University (now Salisbury University); MA in Philosophy, University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Ecophenomenology,
Ethics, and the relationship between Philosophy and Literature
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Kevin Lavelle
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Reed College; MA in Philosophy
(with distinction) University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: Nietzsche, Existentialism, 19th Century
Philosophy, Ethical Theory, and Environmental Ethics
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Siobhán McLoughlin
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, University of Toronto;
MA in Philosophy, University of Ottawa
Philosophical Interests: Ancient Philosophy (Plato, presocratics),
Metaphysics, Aesthetics
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: Freedom and Necessity in Plato's
Eschatology
Ethan Mills
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, Hamline University; MA
in Philosophy, University of Hawaii
Philosophical Interests: Epistemology, Indian Philosophy,
Cross-cultural Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of
Science, Ethics and Metaphilosophy
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: Jayarasi and the Dependent
Origination of Skepticism: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Gopal Ramaswamy
Previous Degree(s): BS in Business Administration, Concord University;
MA in Philosophy, Cleveland State University
Philosophical Interests: Hindu Ethics-Texts interestedin are
Artha Sastra, Manu Smriti, The Maurya Polity (Chanakya Niti, Etc., and
the Grihya Sutras; Adavita Vedanta, specifically relating to Sankracharya's
works and inquiry into the nature of the Self in Advaita, Visesha Advaita,
Dvaita and Purva Mimamsa philosophies
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Kristian Simcox
Previous Degree(s): BA, University of Oregon
Philosophical Interests: German Philosophy since Kant, especially
Schelling and Heidegger; 20th Century Continental Philosophy; American
Philosophy; Aesthetics; Environmental Philosophy
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: N/A
Carolyn Thomas
Previous Degree(s): BA in English, Duke University; MA in English,
Stanford University, MA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College, MA in Eastern
Thought, St. John's College, MA in Philosophy, University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature,
Comparative Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Education, Plato and Heidegger
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: Heidegger and Education.
Advisor is Iain Thomson
Christian Wood
Previous Degree(s): BA in Philosophy, UC San Diego; MA in Philosophy,
University of New Mexico
Philosophical Interests: 20th Century Phenomenology,
16th and 20th century French Literature
Working Dissertation Title/Topic: Levinas' Transcendental Arguments
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