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Departmental News
Professor Gyula Klima wins NEH Award
Professor Gyula Klima has been awarded an NEH grant of $195,000 as the project director for a collaborative project that will prepare for publication three bilingual (Latin-English) volumes comprising an annotated critical edition and translation of John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De Anima as well as a fourth volume of expository and interpretive essays.
Fulbright Winners
Gary Gabor has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the academic year 2009–2010 to research issues related to his dissertation on Boethius' commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge with Professors Gerd Van Riel and Carlos Steel at the DeWulf-Mansion Center at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Andrew Henscheid has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the academic year 2009–2010 to continue work on his dissertation at the Kierkegaard Research Center in Copenhagen.
Faculty Appointments
Ohad Nachtomy joins the department in the fall of 2009 as an Assistant Professor. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and he has taught since 2006 at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has also been a visiting research fellow at Princeton University and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He specializes in early modern philosophy, especially Leibniz and Spinoza, and he has begun a major research project in the philosophy of modern biology, specifically on genotype-phenotype relations.
Lecture Series
Details concerning this year's lecture series can be found here.
Natural Law Colloquium
This fall's Natural Law Colloquium will occur on October 15. The featured speaker is Professor Cathleen Kaveny from the University of Notre Dame. She will speak on "Seeing and Specifying Basic Rights: Case Studies from the Common Law." Further details can be found here or here.
Dissertation Defenses
Kyle Hubbard will defend his dissertation "Who Then Are You, My God?: Augustine of Hippo and Jean-Luc Marion on the Nature and Possibility of Loving God" on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Location: Keating 124. Mentor: Merold Westphal, Readers: Giorgio Pini, Christopher Cullen, S.J., Examiners: John Davenport, Bradford Hinze (Theology Department).
Adam Konopka defended his dissertation An Introduction to Husserl’s Phenomenology of Umwelt: Reconsidering the Natur/Geist Distinction Toward an Environmental Philosophy on Thursday, October 30, 2008. Mentor: John J. Drummond, Readers: Dominic J. Balestra, John van Buren, Examiners: Ann V. Murphy, Merold Westphal. (for abstract click here).
Ann C. Ozar defended her dissertation The Moral Significance of Sincerity on Tuesday, November 18, 2008. Mentor: John J. Drummond, Readers: Margaret Walker (Arizona State University), Christopher Gowans, John Davenport, Examiner: Ann V. Murphy. (for abstract click here).
Ariane Economos defended her dissertation Intellectus and Induction: Three Aristotelian Commentators on the Cognition of First Principles, Including an Original Translation of John Buridan's Quaestiones in Duos Aristotilis Libros Posteriorum Analyticorum on March 30, 2009. Mentor: Gyula Klima. Readers: Brian Davies and Giorgio Pini. Examiners: Dominic Balestra and Daryl Tress.
Ana Janssen defended her dissertation Transgressive Dasein: An Applied Ontology of Sex and Gender on April 21, 2009. Mentor: John van Buren. Readers: Judith Green and Ann Murphy. Examiners: John Davenport and Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei.
Eoin O'Connell defended his dissertation Kant's Moral Idealism: The Nature and Role of the Highest Good in Kant's Theory of Practical Reason on May 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm in the Philosophy Conference Room. Mentor: Christopher Gowans. Readers: Michael Baur and John Davenport. Examiners: Dominic Balestra and John Drummond.
Emmanuel Nartey defended his dissertation Mind-Body Distinction and the Problem of Hylomorphic Constitution of Cartesian Composites on May 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm in the Philosophy Conference Room. Mentor: Dominic Balestra. Readers: Michael Baur and Judith Jones. Examiners: Gyula Klima and Judith Green.
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