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Faculty Honors and Achievements
During the past two years, the faculty have been busy publishing articles and books and presenting papers in the US and abroad. Here is just a sample of some of our accomplishments:
Clare Batty has been invited to write an entry on "Philosophical Perspectives on Smell" for the Encyclopedia of the Mind. Her paper, "Scents and Sensibilia," has been accepted for publication in APQ. She is writing a review of Robert Stalnaker's book, Our knowledge of the Internal World, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. She presented papers at the Canadian Philosophical Association, the Pacific APA, and the Consciousness: Online Conference.
David Bradshaw published book chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Boethius; Orthodox Readings of Augustine; and Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity. He has presented papers at Marquette, Purdue, Pennsylvania, Baylor, and Transylvania, and at various conferences including giving the keynote address at a conference on "Christian Faith and Metaphysical Reason in the East and West" at New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania. His book is being translated into modern Greek by Amphilogia Press.
Dan Breazeale, our current Acting Chair, published several papers as well as an edited volume, After Jena: New Essays on Fichte’s Later Philosophy, co-edited with Tom Rockmore (Northwestern University Press). He gave invited papers at Northwestern and Fordham and at the meeting of the North American Fichte Society. He was awarded an NEH fellowship (his sixth one) for 2009-2010, which will support his work on the project, "Fichte’s Path from Kant to the wissenschaftslehre. Zurich Writings, 1793-1794." He intends to work on a volume of translations of all of Fichte’s significant writings from the Zurich period (1793-1794), and will include his own essays explaining why these writings are essential for understanding the move "from Kant to Fichte," and hence for understanding the history of German idealism in general. He gave invited lectures at Northwestern and Fordham Universities and presented conference papers at meetings of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (San Francisco), the K. L. Reinhold working group (Montreal), and the North American Fichte Society (Chicago).
Ron Bruzina has an edited volume, Eugen Fink, Phanomenologische Werkstatt, 2, Bernauer Zeitmanuskripte, Cartesianische Meditationen und System der phanomenologischen Philosophie; Bd. 3.2 of the Eugen-Fink-Gesamtausgabe, a volume continuing the edition of the complete research notes and working drafts by Eugen Fink during his years as assistant with Edmund Husserl and through the end of World War II, in four volumes, from Alberg Verlag, Freiburg. He has also presented several papers, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, the University of Crete in Greece, and at the Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, in Prague (Czech Republic).
Brandon Look was promoted to Full Professor. His book, The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence, was published with Yale University Press, 2007.
Natalie Nenadic has joined the Department of Philosophy as a Visiting Professor for 2009-2010 to teach courses in philosophy of law and introduction to philosophy. In the spring she will also be teaching an advanced course in an area close to her own research interests. She has a BA from Stanford and will be receiving her PhD later this year from Yale. Her Areas of Specialization include: Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger and Hegel), philosophy of law, ethics, social and political philosophy, and feminism.
Eric Sanday published an article on Plato's Parmenides in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, published two separate reviews of Baracchi's "Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy", helped organize the Workshop on Plato's Laws (held at UK), gave a presentation on property in Books XI-XII of the Laws at this Workshop and another on the structure of language in Augustine's Teacher at the Toronto Seminar, collaborated on three proposals for edited volumes, and is at work finishing a paper on Plato's Gorgias.
Bob Sandmeyer, a lecturer in our department and former Ph.D. student, has a book coming out with Routledge University Press, entitled Husserl’s Constitutive Phenomenology: Its Problem and Promise. He presented papers at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Institute for the Study of Nature at MIT, and the Husserl Circle.
Ted Schatzki had his book, Martin Heidegger: Theorist of Space, published with Steiner Verlag (2007). He served as Guest Editor of a special issue of Human Affairs on Action and Practice Theory. He gave several talks, including being a keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting of the South African Social Theory Network, at Rhodes University in South Africa, and talks at Oxford University and Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Anita Superson had her book, The Moral Skeptic, accepted for publication with Oxford University Press (January 2009). She served as Guest Editor of a special volume of Teaching Philosophy, on "Teaching in the New Climate of Conservatism." She was invited to write an entry on "Feminist Moral Psychology" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She presented invited papers at Lake Forest College and Marquette University, and at the Central, Pacific, and Eastern Division American Philosophical Association meetings. She won a University of Kentucky Major Research Award, and a Conference and Workshop Award, to host a conference for the Society for Analytical Feminism. She was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in Winter, 2008.
Chris Zurn had his book, Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review, published by Cambridge University Press (2007). He is the co-editor with Boudewijn de Bruin of a collection appearing in December, 2008 with Palgrave Macmillan, entitled New Waves in Political Philosophy. Another collection, co-edited with Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, entitled Anerkennung, is due out in 2009 with Akadamie Verlag Press. He also presented papers at the Association for Political Theory, the joint meeting of the Law & Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association in Montreal, Canada, the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Massachusetts, the American Philosophical Association, and the Kentucky Philosophical Association.