Philosophy

Author: heldke

  • Bjorn Hedstrom (’05)

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    Bjorn Hedstrom (’05) received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is now employed as an attorney for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Bjorn has this to say about how philosophy prepared him for the study of law.

  • Paul Hoff (’72)

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    Paul Hoff (’72) worked with the Peace Corps in Korea teaching English, before moving to Japan where he joined a British stockbroker.  He runs the Asia Pacific licensing business of FTSE, an index provider owned by the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times.  His territory covers all of Asia west to Pakistan.  He lives in…

  • Gerald Christianson

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    Gerald Christianson is Emeritus Professor in Residence at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he has taught early and medieval church history since 1967. Among his recent works, he is the co-author or co-editor of The Spirituality of the German Awakening, a volume in the series Classics of Western Spirituality (2003); Introducing Nicholas of…

  • Mike Finstad (’93)

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    Mike Finstad (’93) is a broker, CRS and realtor for Remax Results.

  • John Owens

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    John Owens is Chief of Party for Microenterprise Access to Banking Services in Hong Kong. He reports, “I will never forget the class we had one J-Term on artificial intelligence.  That class inspired me to think quite a bit about how technology can change the way we live and work and the various philosophical implications…

  • Christopher Hamsher (2000)

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    Christopher Hamsher (2000 graduate) is back in Minneapolis, studying law at the University of Minnesota, after spending several years in Chicago, where he formed two rock bands and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  • Michael Boe (’82)

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    Michael Boe (’82) is a librarian with the Hennepin County Library System. For several years, he was the bookmobile librarian, where he learned, firsthand, the cognitive power of reading to children: “the neurons that fire together wire together.”

  • Andi Twiton (’08)

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    After two years with   Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Andi Twiton (’08) is attending Luther Northwestern Seminary in St. Paul as of the fall of 2010.

  • Andrew Erickson (’05)

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    Andrew Erickson (’05) is a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin.

  • John Biewen (’83)

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    John Biewen (’83) is the audio program director for Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. A voice frequently heard on NPR, John first started in public radio work at the suggestion of his philosophy professor, Deane Curtin. John has a few thoughts about how the study of philosophy is useful.