Philosophy

Author: heldke

  • 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.

  • Philosophy on your iPod

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    Lisa received a lime-green ipod for Christmas, a gift that vaulted her into the twenty-first century. Thanks to a tip from philosophy majors Rhea Muchalla (’09) and Shane Jensen (’10), she’s become a devotee of “Philosophy Bites,” a wonderful podcast program created by David Edmonds (of Wittgenstein’s Poker fame) and Nigel Warburton (a senior lecturer…

  • Lauren Fleer

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    Lauren Fleer has worked as a nonprofit peace and justice advocate, a bicycle messenger, and a cabinet and furniture maker. She has recently completed her degree in civil engineering, and is working for the Army Corps of Engineers.

  • Larry Cartford (’59)

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    Larry Cartford (’59) “sort of stumbled on a philosophy major; I liked many of the courses, so kept taking them, then saw the numbers and thought, ‘why not?’ so part of my triple major was philosophy. I became a pastor, did an STM on the existential theology of Paul Tillich, went into the parish, couldn’t…