Philosophy

Month: February 2009

  • Oxford don and his, um, plagiarism-detecting computer program

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    According to the (London) Times , a California businessman and a Uah legislator contacted Peter Millican, a philosophy professor who has created a computer program that can detect “when works are by the same author.” The two were seeking evidence that would prove that Barack Obama’s memoir was actually ghost-written by Bill Ayers. Millican reported…

  • Brooke Lundquist

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    Philosophy graduate Brooke Lundquist found her honors philosophy paper from a 1999 Wittgenstein seminar taught by Douglas Huff cited as part of a discussion thread in Dutch!  Brooke notes, “pretty much everything on the page that is in English is from my paper, and at some point, I am credited with it, as well.  Unfortunately,…

  • Harald van Gaasbeek (’08)

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    Harald van Gaasbeek (’08) is attending the Boston University School of Law.

  • But is it altruistic to win…?

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    Here’s a piece about the growing popularity of Ethics Bowl competitions at colleges and universities around the country. Do you suppose the winners promise to donate the prize money to the social change organization of their choice?

  • Sean Kirkland (’90)

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    Sean Kirkland (’90) is a philosophy professor at DePaul University, Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. Sean came back in the spring of 2006 to deliver a paper entitled “Letting the Good Appear More Clearly: The Phenomenological Ethics of Aristotle’s Rhetoric”

  • Kelsey Payne (’06)

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    Kelsey returned to the United States in the spring of 2010, after three and a half years in  Japan. He is  now working as a freelance Japanese-English translator, living the life of a nomad (one guy here said “hobo” sounds nice), and trying to enter the ecological living scene (applying general systems theory and a…

  • Erin Dana (’01)

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    Erin Dana graduated with a degree in philosophy and feminist theory in 2001. Subsequently she received an M.Ed. in Student Personnel Management. She is the Assistant Director of Academic Advising at Pacific Lutheran University.  And here’s why she thinks it’s useful to study philosophy.

  • Ward Moberg (’69)

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    Ward Moberg (’69) is retired from 29 years as a fifth grade teacher in Osceola, Wisconsin. You can find Ward’s speech about the role philosophy has played in his life elsewhere on our website, under “why study philosophy?”

  • Megan Buckingham (’07)

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    2007 graduate Megan Buckingham is working in San Francisco with Lutheran Volunteer Corps for the 2008-09 academic year, where she works with Pesticide Action Network North America. During her first year after graduation from Gustavus, she lived and worked at Holden Village with Bethany Mueller, another Gustavus philosophy department alumna.

  • MLK III in India

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    Martin Luther King III, is tracing the steps of his father’s pilgrimage to India fifty years ago, to study the theory of nonviolence.