Philosophy

Category: Philosophy

  • Stephen Henderson (’96)

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    Stephen Henderson (’96) teaches English in Osaka, Japan. He reports that “My two most memorable conversations were with an 80-year old man who fled Japan to China in the 1930s and lived out the war hiding in Manchuria. He had hundreds of wonderful stories to tell. I also had the opportunity to “interview” a woman…

  • Chris deLaubenfels (’08)

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    Chris deLaubenfels (’08) is spending the 2008-09 academic year teaching in New York City, as part of Teach for America.

  • Reflecting on the current crisis: an invitation

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    Last Sunday morning, while driving to Minneapolis, I happened to catch a radio program on which eight prominent intellectuals–ethicists and environmentalists, theologians and historians, scientists and artists–spoke about the current economic crisis. Well, sort of. They weren’t talking about subprime mortgages or TARP or whether or not to nationalize the banks. Instead, they were considering…

  • Charles Stringer (’85)

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    Charles Stringer (1985) is a licensed attorney in California and Washington with over 15 years experience in commercial, environmental, natural resources, and American Indian law and policy.  He is in-house counsel and a principal with Renewable Resources Group, where he manages several renewable energy and large-scale water conservation, storage, and transfer projects.

  • Joel Jensen (’97)

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    Joel Jensen (’97) received a Ph.D. in architecture, with a dissertation in architectural ontology. He teaches philosophy at North Hennepin Community College.

  • Danny George (’08)

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    Danny George (’08) is teaching English in South Korea during the 2008-09 year.

  • Kara Barnette (’05)

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    2005 graduate Kara Barnette is a member of the philosophy department at Westminster College in Salt Lake City Utah. Kara’s path took her first to graduate school at the University of Oregon, and then to a stint teaching back in her old department at Gustavus. While her teachers-then-colleagues miss her, we’re delighted that she found…

  • Jeanie Reese (’92)

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    Jeanie Reese (’92) is the mother of another philosophy department graduate; Don McNeil (’85).

  • Chris Marshall (’90)

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    Chris Marshall (’90) is Field Editor for Woodworker’s Journal. He lives in rural Ohio on a ten acre farm, where, he reports, “I build things from wood, write about them, photograph the process and am always there at the end of the driveway at the end of the day to get my kids off the…

  • Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000)

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    Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000) is assistant professor of philosophy at the College of St. Benedict. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. You can find her senior thesis on our webpage.