and mail them to: Department Prizes Tower Foundation Division of University Advancement The Herman Shapiro One Washington Square Memorial Scholarship San Jose, CA 95192-0256 Award winner for You may want to donate Spring 2009 was Chris specifically to one of our Cloos. awards funds: the Temple Newsletter: Prize, the Manor Prize, the The Pinto Award prize- Department of Pinto Prize, or the Shapiro winner for Fall 2008 Prize. Please contact Prof. was Laura Ochoa. Philosophy Manning for details. 924- 4470 or San Jose State [email protected] The Manor Prize (for Outstanding Logic University How Useful is Student of the Year) April, 2010 Philosophy for a went to Noah Friedman-Biglin. Hard Scientist? Editor: Tom Leddy Take a look at this letter to The Temple Prize Professor Shaw from a winning paper for Our Philosophy former student. Spring 2009 was written Department Web I took your Philosophy of by Santana Ellis. Site Address: Science class in Fall 2008. It sjsu.edu/philosophy/ was an amazing experience. Now I am in a PhD program 10th Annual MAKE A in Molecular Cell Biology at Univ. of Alabama at Philosophy FINANCIAL Birmingham. From time to Department CONTRIBUTION time, I bump into situations Conference TO PHILOSOPHY where what I learned in your class about how a scientist “Phenomenology” Contributions would be used thinks just keeps inspiring May 1, Guadalupe to further faculty and student me. Now when I look back to Room, Student Union, research projects including all my courses I took at the travel to conferences, visits to San Jose State undergrad level, I find that libraries, research Cost: Free Philosophy of Science is the assistantships, and purchase ONLY INDISPENSABLE of books. 8:35-9:00 Conversation and course. I could take a few Coffee (Danishes and biology courses less or one Donors should make their Muffins too) chemistry course less, but not checks out to: Philosophy of Science. Your 9:00-9:40 Carlos Sanchez, teachings from the course are The Tower Foundation of Philosophy, SJSU instrumental/fundamental in SJSU with "Philosophy" in “Heidegger's Weak the practice of doing science. the memo position. (If Eurocentrism." “Philosophy” is not in the Hieu Dinh Hoang memo position the check will 9:40-10:20 Rick Tieszen, University of Alabama go to a "holding" place and Philosophy, SJSU never be processed.) “Phenomenology and the

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1 Students, alumni, and other The 2010 SJSU 10:40-11:20 Peter Hadreas, friends of philosophy are Philosophy, SJSU very much welcome. This Center for "Husserlian Phenomenology annual conference was Comparative and the Dispelling of the developed to encourage Myth of the Given." students, alumni, and faculty Philosophy to get together in a one-day Workshop/Confere 11:20-12:00 Chanh Phan, event to talk philosophy. nce Series Humanities, SJSU “A Heideggerian reading of the This event is wheelchair Symposium Laoian phenomenology.” accessible. For other Constructive accommodations, such as Engagement of 12:00-1:00 Lunch. Lunch assistance with will be free and will be vision or hearing, please call Analytic and provided in the conference the Philosophy Department at Continental room. A vegetarian choice 924-4468 or will be available. [email protected]. Approaches in Please let Prof. Leddy know Philosophy took place 1:00-1:40 Tony Nguyen, ASAP if a sign-language in the Engineering Building Philosophy, SJSU “Coraline: interpreter is needed. on April 10. Papers included A Fairy Tale of a Misfit who Bo Mou, “Symposium Becomes Herself.” Selected Courses Theme Introduction: When Quine/Lewis, Heidegger, and 1:40-2:20 Anand Vaidya, Spring 2009 (non Lao Zi Have a Get-together Philosophy, SJSU “On The G.E. upper-division and on Being….,” Paul Possibility of Philosophical graduate courses) Livingston (University of Knowledge: Continental and New Mexico) “The Origin of Analytic Approaches” 107 Philosophy and Language and the Aporia of Literature – Lott Sense: Quine and 2:40-3:20 Anthony Korsund, 109 Philosophy of Heidegger,” Philosophy Grad Student, Richard Tieszen, “The Place SJSU “Where the Religion – Giddings of Science in Continental and Intentionalist and Anti- 111 Medical Ethics – Analytic Philosophy,” Intentionalist Perspectives Manning Dagfinn Follesdal (Stanford Converge: in the Horizonal 121 Philosophy and University) “Quine and Structures of Artist and Feminism – Brown Husserl,” John Searle Audience.” (University of California at 132 Ethical Theory – Berkeley) “The 3:20-4:00 Tom Leddy, Vaidya Background,” Hubert Philosophy, SJSU “A 155 Philosophy of Law Dreyfus (University of Phenomenological Approach – Shaw California at Berkeley) to Aesthetic Experience.” 157 Intermediate Logic “McDowell vs Merleau- Ponty: The Pseudo-Problem The room only seats 40 – Tieszen of Relating Mind and people. So anyone who 160 Philosophy of World,” Peter Hadreas “A arrives at a time when the Science – Stemwedel Constructive Engagement limit has been reached cannot 190 Seminar on between Phenomenology and be admitted. You will need Foucault - Williamson Cognitive Science,” and to let Tom Leddy know you Chad Kidd (University of will be eating lunch so that 290 Ancient California at Irvine) we can know how many will Hellenistic Philosophy “Mathematizing be provided. Contact: – Leddy Phenomenology: Ontological [email protected] Vegetarian 291 Heidegger’s Early and Methodological lunches will be available. Philosophy - Sanchez Mathematization.”

2 The Francis T. to give lawyers, judges, legal process, and free educational Villemain Lecture on educators and the public a advising sessions to help Feb. 14, was Professor balanced view of the issues students individually. Many Lawrence Quill, Associate affecting the U.S. civil justice parents and students have Professor of Politics at San system. The Institute was found these seminars and José State University. He is established in 1956 as the advising sessions to be the author of Liberty after Roscoe Pound–American extremely helpful. I plan to Liberalism (London, Trial Lawyers Foundation by continue to actively work to Macmillan, 2006) and Civil a group of lawyers to honor improve the Japanese Disobedience: (Un)Common and build upon the work of community in the Silicon Sense in Mass Democracies Roscoe Pound (1870–1964). Valley. (London, Macmillan, 2009). Pound served as Dean of the Harvard Law School from Sylvia Rodezno is a 1916 to 1936, and is Research Analyst at SRI. Student NEWS acknowledged as the founder International and has a web of sociological page at jurisprudence–an policyweb.sri.com/cep/people Michael Pankrast interdisciplinary approach to There we learn that she writes: “I turned in an legal concepts in which the “is involved in a number of application to teach at law is recognized as a projects including Teaching Humboldt State University dynamic system that is and California's Future, the this last Fall, and was influenced by social Study of Teacher Induction in rejected for that position. conditions and that, in turn, the Midwest, and the However, a teacher up there influences society as a Evaluation Study of (Alan Fletcher), just retired, whole.” California's District opening up a bunch of Intervention and Regional classes. I got a surprise Albert Filice had an Capacity Building Project. phone call from Professor article published in For these studies, her work Michael Goodman last Friday Philosophy Now issue 77 includes collecting and asking me to teach one (and (Feb/Mar 2010). “Film: analyzing original data possibly up to three) logic Solaris.” 46-48. This is the around high school reform, courses, and a course on first time I think any of our teacher development, and Philosophy of Sex and Love. students has published in this district leadership. This opportunity is not only very popular philosophy Prior to joining SRI, she ideal for the opportunity to magazine. Albert connects worked as a research teach, but Humboldt is also the 2002 film Solaris directed associate at Stanford one of my favorite places in by Steven Soderbergh to University, where she the world to live. So, I'm Hegel’s idea from his collected and analyzed data very excited to say that I will Phenomenology of Spirit that looking at the effects of be a lecturer at Humboldt I am nothing outside of my shame on different cultures. State starting this coming social interactions. During college, she worked Fall.” with underrepresented youth Sakiko Adachi, who is in in the San Jose community as Matt DellaBetta won the a therapeutic behavioral Roscoe Pound Mock trial real estate, has a web site at http://adachihome.com/en/ specialist. She held a position competition. Congratulations with AmeriCorps as a Matt!. From their web site She writes there: “After experiencing my children’s housing specialist at Sacred we learn that “The Pound Heart Community Service Civil Justice Institute is a college admission process, I began collaborating with an Center where she worked to national legal “think tank” provide emergency financial created by pioneering educational counselor to help Japanese people living in the assistance to help families members of the trial bar and maintain their permanent dedicated to ensuring access US understand what it means to go to college in the US. housing.” to justice for ordinary citizens. Through its We hold seminars that help activities, the Institute works explain the college admission

3 Christian Wellisch is Introduction to Philosophy and Psychology. A second both a practicing lawyer and class where plagiarism rules paper "Political Analogues to a martial arts expert. There is were vigorously enforced. the Aristotelian Trichotomy information about him at of Shamefulness, mixedmartialarts.com Crystal Michallet- Shamelessness and Noble An American Kickboxing Romero published a gothic Shame" was accepted for the Academy member, Christian novel, The Veil of Sorrow, volume, Hellenic Concepts of is a professional MMA P.D. Publishing, Clayton NC, Political Friendship and fighter. 2009. Although not a Enmity. philosophy major Crystal has Carolyn Robbins gave a taken several philosophy Tom Leddy published paper at the Society for classes. “Creative Interpretation of Phenomenology and the Literary Texts,” in The Idea Human Sciences Annual of Creativity ed. Michael Conference, October 29-31, FACULTY Krausz (Brill Academic 2009 in Arlington, Virginia NEWS Publishers, 2009) 293-311. “On Laws and Ladies: The He published one review Domestic Angel in Hegel and “Yuriko Saito. Everyday Nietzsche.” Carolyn will be Peter Hadreas Aesthetics, in Notre Dame attending graduate school in Peter Hadreas performed his Philosophical Reviews.” Feb the Fall. Liszt/Schopenhauer program 14, 2009 for the S. F. Liszt Society this http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm Richard Friedrich gave past October. This involved ?id=15188. and gave two a paper at the same playing Liszt's La papers: “Yuriko Saito’s conference as Carolyn: Campanella before people Aesthetics of Everyday Life. “Formulae-world, Life- expert in the piano repertory Author Meets Critics,” world, and Metaphysics: of Liszt. "It was a one-of-a American Society for Husserl’s Crisis and its kind experience," he says. Aesthetics, Denver, Oct. Contemporary "Misha Dichter has nothing 2009. “Aesthetic Experience Relevance.” to worry about. But, I think as Experience of Aura,” the Schopenhauer American Society for connections were worth it. Aesthetics, Asilomar, April Yet there's something 16, 2009. Tom continues to Philosophy stomach-turning about a work on his book The paunchy sexagenarian Extraordinary in the Department in receiving a bouquet of Ordinary: The Aesthetics of the News flowers." Everyday Life. He also continues to be active in the He's hoping to produce two Board of Trustees of the Noam Cook was quoted at books within the next year or Roosevelt Park length in an article “Ease of two. One is co-authored with Neighborhood Association. posting videos to Internet Lawrence Quill, SJSU raises privacy issues,” by Political Science, and Bo Mou Matt Santolla on March 3, in provisionally titled "The (1) Publications in 2009. Future of Greed." the Spartan Daily. Prof. Cook There are three books is quoted as saying that He has been working on the formally labeled ‘2009’ as second book for several companies like YouTube publication year: two should recognize privacy as a years. It applies concepts of authored books, Substantive projective geometry to issues moral concern. Perspectivism (“Synthese in the philosophy of mind. Library” monograph series,

Plagiarism. An article, vol. 344), and Chinese His paper "Husserlian Self- Philosophy A-Z (Edinburgh “SJSU clamps down on Awareness and SSRIs" is plagiarism” by Shiva University Press), and one scheduled for the next issue edited volume, History of Zahirfar, Feb. 9, 2010, in the of Philosophy, Psychiatry Spartan Daily, featured an Chinese Philosophy

4 (Routledge, http://), although the careers of new faculty vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 565-576, the last one already came out members. He proposed to February 2009. in late 2008. It just happens work on Mexican feminist that the three were published philosophies in the 20th roughly in the same year; century—the work is coming Janet Stemwedel actually each of them results along. This past year two of You can learn a lot about from multiple-year efforts, Carlos’s papers were Janet, ethics, science, especially the first one (over accepted for inclusion in teaching and a number of a decade of work). [The forthcoming anthologies, a other things at her constantly electronic version of the paper on Edmund Husserl’s updated blog Adventures in monograph is available at phenomenology Ethics and Science http://www.springerlink.com/ (Phenomenology, http://scienceblogs.com/ethic content/978-90-481-2622-4 ] Archaeology, Ethics: Current sandscience/ (2) Service to the profession. Investigations of Husserl’s <1> One major project Corpus, Continuum Press) carried out in 2009 is and a paper on Latin Rick Tieszen formally establishing a peer- American pragmatism I was invited to give a series reviewed, open-access (Pragmatism in the Hispanic of three lectures on Gödel on international journal: World, Fordham University a month-long appointment Comparative Philosophy: An Press). While he didn’t last January as Directeur International Journal of present any papers in 2009, d'étude invité at the Ecole des Constructive Engagement of he’s been invited to deliver hautes études en sciences Distinct Approaches toward papers at 4 conferences this sociales (EHESS) in Paris. World Philosophy, year: he has already While in Paris I was also Comparative Philosophy, presented at the First Annual invited to lecture in the Ecole which is edited by its Conference on Pragmatism in normale supérieure (ENS) international Editorial Board the Hispanic/Latino World at Philosophy and published on the World Texas A&M, and will present Department/Husserl Archive, Wide Web jointly by the at the Pacific Division where I spoke on "Gödel on Center for Comparative meeting of the APA on Latin Hilbert, Carnap, and Philosophy and the American Existentialism, the Husserl"; in the Ecole University Library at San Annual Conference of normale supérieure (ENS) Jose State University. (For its Philosophy in the Séminaire de philosophie et details, see the journal Contemporary World at mathématiques, where the website: Oregon State University, talk was on "Elements of http://www.comparativephilo where he’s to speak on Gödel's Turn to Husserlian sophy.org) <2> I’ve been Hispanic philosophy in the Transcendental invited to be a member of the US, and, finally, the Eastern Phenomenology"; and in the Editorial Board of the journal Division meeting of the APA, Séminaire philosophie des History and Philosophy of where he’s been asked to mathématiques, Recherches Logic present on Mexican Epistémologiques et (http://www.tandf.co.uk/jour pragmatism. He continues to Historiques sur les Sciences nals/thpl). sit on the Board of Directors Exact et les Institutions for the Centers for Scientifiques Employment Training and (REHSEIS/CNRS) Paris VII, Carlos Sanchez on “Intentionality, Intuition, Carlos had a busy 2009. He, has been elected to serve a 3 years term on the American and Proof in Mathematics”. together with his wife, Alicia, In April I gave a talk on bought a house and had a Philosophical Association’s “Committee on Hispanics.” Gödel at a special logic baby—this makes two! lecture at Stanford Carlos was also the University, and in November published University’s recipient of the Bill Shaw I was invited to present two 2009 Sybil Weir/John Galm Marxism, Business Ethics, lectures in Göttingen, one at Endowment Award from the and Corporate Responsibility, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg and Office of Faculty of Affairs, Journal of Business Ethics, the other at the symposium an award intended to enhance Edmund Husserl 1859-2009,

5 Georg August Universität. Anand Vaidya writes It is certainly keeping me Both of the lectures in that since the last newsletter busy. All of it intersects Göttingen were also on Gödel he gave two talks, one at St. with several running projects and Husserl. The material at Andrews University, that include a longer all of these lectures was Scotland, and one at the monograph on subjects and drawn from various sections University of Barcelona, both ethics in Foucault, that itself of my recently completed on epistemology. Anand also is a continuation of larger book manuscript After gave a paper at our philosophical concerns about Gödel: Platonism and Comparative Philosophy groups and social Reason in Mathematics and Conference. organizations. Logic. It was my first visit to Göttingen and it was fun to Dan Williamson see the houses and buildings writes “My article on Emeritus Faculty where Hilbert, Husserl, Foucault, “An American Frege, Riemann, Weyl, and Foucault” appeared in the published many other famous scholars April 2009 issue of History Philip Davis lived. of Philosophy Quarterly— a book The Scalping of the In July I traveled to just after the last newsletter. Great Sioux Nation: A Washington D.C. to sit on a I was happy to see that in Review of My Life on the panel to review applications print. Rosebud and Pine Ridge for National Endowment for I look forward to teaching Reservations. (Maryland: the Humanities (NEH) a seminar (190) on Foucault Hamilton Books, 2010). fellowships in philosophy. in Fall 2010. It will That turned out to require a emphasize issues surrounding Amnon Goldworth lot of work. the idea of a subject, using In addition to giving a paper Several papers are to some of the usual texts but in our colloquium series, be published soon: also employing the recently Amnon published “Response "Mathematical Problem published lectures, The to ‘Deception and the Solving and Ontology: An Hermeneutics of the Subject. principle of double effect’ Exercise", forthcoming in (I used this text extensively Cambridge Quarterly. Axiomathes; "Mathematical in the article mentioned Healthcare Ethics 2008 Fall Realism and Transcendental above.) I want to also take a 17 (4) 471-2. Phenomenological Idealism", look at Foucault’s work on forthcoming in L. Haaparanta governmentality, using more and M. Hartimo (eds.), of his recently published Phenomenology and lectures, Security, Territory, Mathematics, Springer; and Population and The Birth of "Intentionality, Intuition, and Biopolitics. Yet another set Proof in Mathematics", of lectures, The Government The editor is eager to publish forthcoming in G. of Self and Others, is materials about alumni: Sommaruga (ed.), forthcoming this May, so I please send to Foundations of Mathematics, will be looking at that over [email protected] or Tom Springer. A book review is the Summer. Leddy, Department of also forthcoming in The publication of Philosophy, Philosophia Mathematica: Foucault’s lectures have done 1 Washington Square, San "Edmund Husserl: much to expand on what Jose State University, San Introduction to Logic and Foucault was thinking that Jose, 95192 -0096 Theory of Knowledge, didn’t all necessarily find its Lectures 1906/07". way into the major published Mark Monroe is a I am enjoying my works. So, it is a real boon classes this term, especially for Foucault scholarship to labor relations specialist for the state of Delaware and an my graduate seminar see these lectures available. "Transcendental Philosophy: And it helps to expand just active member of the Human Rights commission of the city Kant and Husserl" what Foucault was about, in some very positive ways. of Dover. One of the topics

6 they are currently debating is writer at the Regis McKenna to the quality of life on this an apology for slavery. Company.” planet.”

Krupa Patel is Laura M. Purdy Brian Prosser is a grad currently at University of received her MA in 1971. student in Philosophy at New Mexico in the graduate She got a PhD from UCSC. His interests are 19th program in Philosophy. Her Pittsburgh in 1974. She & 20th C. Continental interests are Philosophy of teaches at Wells College and Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Mind, Philosophy of Science, specializes in Ethics, Applied Levinas, Phenomenology of Phenomenology, and Plato. Ethics, Bioethics, Feminism, Morals, Philosophy of Education, and Family Technology. Issues. She co-authored a is at Phil Williamson book Bioethics, Justice and is University of New Mexico Health Care in 2000 from Sandra Dreisbach with interests in History of Wadsworth. a grad student at UCSC. Her Philosophy, Phenomenology interests are Ethics, of the social world, Husserl Ontology, and Philosophy of and Heidegger. David L. Nelson, Technology. M.D. received his MA in Philosophy in 1975 and . is a grad Donald Ciraulo practices in Marin County. Evan Lam "Mr. C" has taught at West He specializes in hand student at UCSC. His Valley for over twenty years. surgery. interests are Contemporary In 1995, he received a full- European Philosophy, time appointment in Political and Social Philosophy. He was an Randy Siever who has Philosophy, etc. attendee at the Comparative a BA from SJSU “served Philosophy conference, along twenty years on the Young is a with Barbara Upton, who Life staff and nine years as Matthew Frise also teaches at West Valley. Pastor of Outreach at Sparks grad student at UCSC. His Nice to see you both! Christian Fellowship near interests are Epistemology, Reno, Nevada…[He has] an Philosophy of Religion, M.A. from Fuller Seminary. Ancient Greek Philosophy, Noah Friedman- He has been director of Philosophy of Science Biglin is now studying for Doable Evangelism since a PhD at University of St. 2007. Sara Rettus is a grad Andrews, Scotland. student at UCSC. She was William E. Tinsley one of the attendees at the Roger Hall “joined the who is now retired from Comparative Philosophy West Valley College Foothill College as Professor Conference: nice to see you Philosophy faculty in 2000. of Philosophy and History Sara. He teaches Logic, Critical lists Philosophy as one of his Thinking and Introduction to BA majors, graduating in Jeffrey Young who Philosophy.” In addition to 1953. He still teaches there got a BA from us teaches having received an M.A. part-time. He says on his Psychology at North Central from us he did three years of Foothill website that University, AZ. His post graduate work in “Philosophy should aid us in Psychology PhD was in philosophy at the University understanding the human Social/Environmental of California, Santa Barbara. condition and it should help Psychology, Claremont us to make our world a better Graduate School. Mr. Hall has worked as both place from an ecological, a physicist at General moral, economic, cultural and a practicing Electric’s nuclear reactor political perspective. To be Gary Rose, facilities and a technical vital, philosophy must speak lawyer in Los Gatos, got his BA in Philosophy in 1973.

7 Karl Fotovat is at the logic. I have also just begun a Scott Stroud is New School for General 3 year Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor (Tenure- Studies in New York. He Fellowship at the Arche Track), University of Texas now has an MA in Research Centre at the at Austin, Department of Philosophy and University of St Andrews in Communication Psychoanalytic Studies, The Scotland. I will be working Studies, since Fall 2009. He New School for Social with Stephen Read on the published “Argument in Research. This year he is a AHRC funded Foundations Ancient India: The Case of teaching fellow, The New of Logical Consequence Śankara’s Advaita Vedanta,” School for General Studies project). Ancient Non-Greek and is a member of editorial Rhetorics, Carol S. Lipson & staff, Graduate Faculty Roberta A. Binkley (eds.), Philosophy Journal. Nick Rotsko is Parlor Press, 2009, 240-264. President of the UT Law Federalist Society at UT writes I've Colin Caret Austin and is Book Review , William Cornwell been at UConn the past 5 editor of Texas Review of B.A. 1990, is Associate years working with JC Beall Law and Politics. Professor of Philosophy at as my advisor. I completed Salem State College. His my M.A. in 2006 and just areas of specialization are defended my dissertation last Dirk Bruins is now a epistemology and philosophy month. My dissertation is in registered nurse in Palo Alto. of mind. He has forthcoming philosophical logic and Lisa Bernasconi says he still “Human Nature Unbound: metaphysics. The title is gets together with Prof. Joe Why Becoming Cyborgs and "Interpreting Partitioned Waterhouse (emeritus). Taking Drugs Could Make Frame Semantics" and it Us More Human.” In Values deals with informal Christopher Cloos & Technology, Religion & philosophical motives for has four philosophical papers Public Life vol. 37, ed. thinking seriously about what listed in epistemology and Gabriel Ricci (Piscataway, Kripke called non-normal meta-ethics at philosophy: NJ: Transaction, 2010). worlds semantics, which have philpapers.org. He also has a interesting applications in philosophy blog at modal logic and relevant http://christophercloos.com/

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