| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Ethics Bowl Team | | |
| News: | A team of students from the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department participated in the regional tournament of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on Saturday, November 15. The team came in third place, ahead of teams from such schools as the University of Washington, Washington State University, and Seattle University. The third place finish may qualify them to compete in the national tournament in March 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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| Name: | Justin Sanders | | |
| News: | Justin Sanders recieved the 2008 Raymond A. Smith Award for Achievement in Scholarship for his essay entitled "Can Ethics be Regarded as Knowledge?" at the College of Arts and Humanities Banquet. |
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| Name: | Majors in Philosophy and Religous Studies | | |
| News: | The following Philosophy & Religious Studies Majors have had their research papers accepted for presentation at the 12th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 18-19, 2008, Forrest Grove, Oregon. They are:
Phillip Downes, "Refuting Moral Luck"
Casie Dunleavy, "What the World Needs Is a Moral Marx"
Travis Petersen, "Influences of Phenomenology and Logical Positivism on the Natural Sciences"
Ashley Goo, "Anarchy, State, and Utopia or a Life 'After Virtue': MacIntyre's Stand against Nozick's Position and Lack of Moral Desert"
Christian Mecham, "Cast Off Body and Mind: The Teachings of Buddhism as Applied to a Phenomenological Model"
They will present their papers at the conference.
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| Name: | Tyler Killam | | |
| News: | Tyler Killam, a History Ed major and Religious Studies minor was awarded a scholarship from the Scottish Rite of Washington for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
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| Name: | Danielle Martinez | | |
| News: | Danielle Martinez, a major in Public Relations and minor in Religious Studies was accepted to the Colorado State University's Master of Science in Higher Education and Student Affairs. In addition she will be working as an Assistant Hall Director for first-year experience students. |
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| Name: | Justin Sanders | | |
| News: | Justin Sanders will be presenting a paper entitled "Forgetful Metaphysics," on Levinas and Heidegger, at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in Portland, Oregon, in April. |
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| Name: | KathyMae Dickinson | | |
| News: | KathyMae Dickinson, a double major in Philosophy and Physics, will present a paper on mind-body dualism at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in April 2007 in Portland, Oregon. |
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| Name: | Chris Moore | | |
| News: | Chris Moore has been accepted into the Masters of Social Work Program at Eastern Wasington University for fall 2006. Chris will be graduating this spring with a BA in Philosophy/Religious Studies Specialization. This past year he has served as President of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Club, Vice President of Central's chapter of Phi Sigma Tau (International Honor Society in Philosophy) and on the CAH Dean's Council of Students. |
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| Name: | Corey Hough | | |
| News: | Mr. Hough presented a paper at this past weekend's 1st Annual Columbia Valley Undergraduate Asian Studies Research Symposium, held at Washington State University. His paper, "The Role of Evil in Early Daoism," examined the complementary nature of good and evil in China's indigeneous high religion. Drawing parallels between the Daoist conception of harmonizing seeming opposites, and the relationship between Batman and the Joker, Mr. Hough's paper presented a unique and highly innovative perspective on ethics. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Nuno Fernandes | | |
| News: | Mr. Fernandes delivered a paper entitled “God as an Institutional Fact: A New Approach to the Question of God’s Existence” at the 57th Northwest Conference on Philosophy, October 21 at Seattle University. He is pursuing an Individualized Masters Degree in Buddhist philosophy. |
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Gary Bartlett's paper 'Activity and Experience' has been accepted for presentation at the 61st annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, to be held this year at Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR) on October 23rd-24th. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Gary Bartlett's paper 'An Argument Against Spanking' has been accepted to the journal Public Affairs Quarterly. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Gary Bartlett has had a paper accepted to the 2009 meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy & Psychology, to be held in Savannah, GA in mid-April. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett has been accepted into the 2008 APA/AAPT Graduate Teaching Seminar, August 7th-10th, at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The seminar, which is for current or recent graduate students, and is run by the American Philosophical Association and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, is limited to 20 participants. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | | |
| News: | Chenyang Li, Philosophy and Religious Studies, published a paper "The Ideal of Harmony in Ancient Chinese and Greek Philosophy" in the journal Tao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, VII.1 (March 2008). In the same issue he also published a book review of Daniel Bell's Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asia in Context (a CHOICE 2007 Best Academic Title). |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek was awarded the College of Arts and Humanities 2008 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek delivered a presentation entitled “Grodno Gubernya Poland Imaging Project: An Introduction to the contributions of Jewish Epitaphs to the Humanities” at the Pacific Northwest Society of Biblical Literature 2008 at George Fox University, May 2-4, 2008. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek's paper “He Walked Upon a Wooden Leg: Epitaphs and Acrostic Poems on Jewish Tombstones”, presented at the Legacy of the Holocaust Conference 2007 at the Jagiellionian University, Krakow, Poland (May 24-26, 2007), has been accepted for publication by the Jagiellionian University Press in the peer reviewed conference proceedings.
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's paper "An Argument Against Spanking" has been accepted to two conferences: the 2nd Annual Felician Ethics Conference (Felician College, Lodi, NJ; May 3rd 2008), and the 25th International Social Philosophy Conference (University of Portland, Portland, OR; July 17th-19th, 2008). |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's article, "On the Correct Treatment of Inverted Earth", has been accepted for publication in the journal Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. |
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| Name: | Gary Bartlett | | |
| News: | Dr. Bartlett's article, "Whither Internalism? How Internalists Should Respond to the Extended Mind Hypothesis" has been published in the journal Metaphilosophy (Vol. 39 No. 2, April 2008). |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | | |
| News: | Dr. Altman's article, "Kant on Sex and Marriage: The Implications for the Same-Sex Marriage Debate," has been accepted for publication by the journal Kant-Studien. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman and Cynthia Coe | | |
| News: | Dr. Altman and Dr. Coe's co-authored article, "The Self as Creature and Creator: Fichte and Freud Against the Enlightenment," will appear later this year in the journal Idealistic Studies. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | | |
| News: | Dr. Altman's article, "The Significance of the Other in Moral Education: Fichte on the Birth of Subjectivity," will be published in the journal History of Philosophy Quarterly later this year. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | | |
| News: | Chenyang Li, of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has a paper entitled "Does Confucian Ethics Integrate Care Ethics and Justice Ethics?" to appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal of Asian Philosophy (Volume 18 Number 1 March 2008).
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| Name: | Apple Zefelius Igrek | | |
| News: | Apple Igrek's essay “Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology” has been accepted for publication (2008) in the Australian based journal Colloquy (out of Monash University). |
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| Name: | Apple Zefelius Igrek | | |
| News: | Apple Igrek's essay “The Metaphysics of Death in Bataille and Baudrillard” has been accepted for publication in the Review Journal of Political Philosophy (Forthcoming, 2009). |
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| Name: | Apple Zefelius Igrek | | |
| News: | Apple Igrek's article "Collective Practices and Collective Faith: An Account of Religious Experience from Mysticism to Pragmatism," an expansion upon a paper given last year at the "Politics, Pluralism, and Religion" conference, will be included in a book of essays inspired by the conference to be published next year.
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | | |
| News: | Dr. Matt Altman has published a book entitled "A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" from Westview Press (2007). The book focuses on Kant's own arguments rather than secondary texts and scholarly debates that may otherwise distract from what Kant himself is attempting. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek's article "And in their Death They Were Not Separated: Aesthetics of Jewish Tombstones in Eastern Europe" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of the Humanities. |
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| ALUMNI |
| Name: | Sarah Woolley | | |
| News: | Sarah Woolley (2001) has been admitted to MA in Education at the University of Washington. She will start fall 2009. |
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| Name: | Becky Rogers | | |
| News: | Becky Rogers, a Religious Studies major, is currently employed as a Social Worker at a skilled nursing facility. You can contact Becky at blueberrybecky85@hotmail.com |
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| Name: | Zac Hymes | | |
| News: | Mr. Zac Hymes received his M.A. in Philosophy from Washington State University in May 2007, and has recently received an appointment as an adjunct instructor with Green River Community College. |
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| Name: | Paul Charlton | | |
| News: | Paul Charlton, an emergency medical technician and recent graduate from the philosophy program, has been working in South Asia on a health education project funded by the American Alpine Club since January 2005. Beginning in October he has been volunteering as a relief worker in Pakistan in the areas devastated by the earthquake. He was recently featured in the Ellensburg Daily Record: http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/news01.txt. |
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| Name: | Mark Green | | |
| News: | Mr. Green has begun doctoral studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. He was accepted by the philosophy doctoral programs at the University of Oregon and SUNY, and chose to go to Stony Brook, one of the most prestigious programs for Continental thought in the U.S. |
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