Philosophy

Author: heldke

  • Jennifer Lee (’10)

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    Following her graduation, Jennifer heads to New York City, where she will attend Fordham University Law School, beginning in the fall of 2010.

  • Natalie Norberg (’10)

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    AS of the fall of 2010, Natalie will be in Zhuhai, China, where she will be employed by United International College as a teaching assistant in English. She joins another 2010 graduate of our department, Beau Hillesheim.

  • Beau Hillesheim (’10)

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    heldke

    Beau heads to China in the fall of 2010, to spend a year as an English teaching assistant, employed by United International College in Zhuhai. He will be joined there by another 2010 graduate of our department, Natalie Norberg.

  • Nancy (Carlson) McCoy (89)

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    Nancy lives in Tomah, Wisconsin, where she is raising two boys, four horses, 13 chickens, two cats and one husband!  She is  a US Army Major in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps.  In the summer of 2010, she is beginning another 365 days full-time mobilization at Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin, working with deploying and redeploying…

  • Is there life after philosophy?

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    While traveling back from Baltimore recently, a young man—maybe 24 or 25—wedged his tall self into the middle seat next to me and proceeded to pull out a paperback book by Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher. That Žižek. Of course I had to talk to him. Confessional time out: I always talk to people…

  • Mark Poppe (’80)

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    After graduating from Gustavus, Mark attended Arizona State University studying Architecture and Civil Engineering. He received a BS in Architectural Studies in 1986 and an MS in Civil Engineering in 1990. He has worked the past 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona as a Transportation/Traffic Engineer.

  • What if Nietzsche Had Written the FAMILY CIRCUS?

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    Well?  What if he had? Would it have looked like this?

  • Three Headed Philosopher Heads for LVC

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    A mythical three-headed philosophical beast, composed of one part Lauren Fulner (2009), one part Andi Twiton (2008) and one part Anna Tibstra (2009) was seen at the summer, 2009 training session for Lutheran Volunteer Corps members.

  • Logicomix!

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    heldke

    Logicomix is a graphic novel about mathematics, logic, philosophy, war, Bertrand Russell, the Vienna Circle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Godel’s incompleteness theorem. Oh, and Truth, with a very capital T. Despite that unlikely description, the work is a real page-turner. (I forced myself to ration my reading each night, to make it last.) You don’t have…

  • This is your brain on podcasts

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    heldke

    Philosophers with an interest in the philosophy of mind might want to ruminate on the idea of subscribing to The Brain Science Podcast, the creation of physician Ginger Campbell. Campbell describes the program as “the podcast for everyone who has a brain.” The show combines interviews with philosophers, psychologists and neurologists, with summaries of important…