Philosophy

Author: heldke

  • Cory Mehan (’99)

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    Cory Mehan, a 1999 graduate, reports that he spent seven years working in the public sector on housing issues, before making the move to United Health Group Information Technology, where he works as a business analyst.

  • Adam Tehle (’07)

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    heldke

    Adam Tehle (’07) has returned to Gustavus, where he is proudly serving as an admission counselor for the college. We expect to net a LOT more philosophy majors as a result of having an “in” in admissions!

  • Christine (Eilertson) Bronson (’94)

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    Christine (Eilertson) Bronson (’94) is the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Human Services for the State of Minnesota.

  • Was that Alex with a reindeer?

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    heldke

    Sophomore philosophy major Alex Legeros is spending this spring in Sweden, with the Gustavus Semester in Sweden program, led by Scandinavian Studies professor Roland Thorstensson. Oh, and by the way, Lisa will be leading the trip to Sweden in the Spring of 2010….

  • “Show me something pleasurable and I’ll show you something which is very likely associated with Pleistocene adaptation”

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    Denis Dutton, Professor of Philosophy at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has published a book entitled The Art Instinct, in which he argues that art is an evolutionary adaptation. If you give a monkey a typewriter….

  • David Walker (’90)

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    heldke

    The movie Bella begins with a line, “If you want to make god laugh, tell him you plans.” This line neatly sums up Dave’s experience in the nearly 20 years since graduating from Gustavus. Since graduating, Dave studied philosophy in a wonderful MA program in Ireland under a wise and fatherly advisor. This was followed…

  • 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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    heldke

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

  • But is it altruistic to win…?

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    heldke

    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?