Greetings to Our Graduates and Other Friends of the Department

ThePhilosopherThePhilosopher Department of Philosophy October 2008 Baylor University www.baylor.edu/philosophy

Greetings to Graduates and Friends of the Department

Our department enjoyed a number of splendid abroad program during the spring of 2008, successes in 2007-2008. One success is the and we are currently recruiting for the spring growing interest in philosophy as a major or of 2009. See www.baylor.edu/philosophy. In minor. Twenty-nine majors participated in addition, Dr. Stuart Rosenbaum directed the the May graduation exercises, the largest ever popular Baylor in Oxford program in our department. Four more graduated in (http://www.baylor.edu/oxford/) and will again this August and six more will graduate in summer. In addition, we have received our December. Currently, we have 98 majors, second cohort of guests from Chinese thirty-five of whom are seniors and twenty- universities under the auspices of a four of whom are freshmen. Templeton-funded grant on Science and Religion. Two Chinese graduate students One catalyst for the increased number of (Mr. Wan Wei from Peking University and majors is the wide-range of courses we offer. (Ms. Luming Cheng from Xinjiang A description of our fall offerings can be Agricultural University), and one Chinese found here: www.baylor.edu/philosophy philosopher (Professor Sang from Wuhan University) are spending the fall and spring Another catalyst is our department’s increased semesters with us. They are a wonderful attention to pre-law. We have developed a addition to our department. Each is working pre-law track in the major (See on a significant research project and the two www.baylor.edu/philosophy) and participated in graduate students are taking classes. These significant ways in a Pre-Law Advisory three ventures have increased our Council whose task is to develop institutional international participation and visibility. resources for those interested in Pre-Law. Of course, philosophy is one of the best Dr. Todd Buras has resumed responsibilities preparations for law. One of our majors, as director of undergraduate studies and James Nortey, was admitted to Harvard Law sponsor of the philosophy club. After Dr. School, beginning this fall. Another major, Frank Beckwith ably performed these roles Evan Roane, developed two new brochures while Dr. Buras was on sabbatical last fall. for the department, one for all majors and With assistance for outstanding undergraduate another for majors interested in law. Thanks, leadership, Dr. Buras plans a weekly coffee Evan (he is now in graduate school at the hour. Please see this website, University of Warwick, in the United www.baylor.edu/philosophy, for details about its Kingdom)! important contributions to the intellectual and social life of our department and our Our second cohort of students (fourteen) university. participated in our St. Andrews semester 1 Our graduate program continues to flourish. sister colleges and universities are looking for Currently, we have twenty-nine graduate men and women of high character, and with students enrolled and they come to us from as demonstrated promises as teachers and far away as Vancouver, Canada and Wuhan, scholars, please contact me. China and as close as Dallas, Texas. Entering graduate students soon become a part of a This is a good time to thank Dr. Anne Bowery close-knit community of graduate students for her good work during a three-year tour of and spouses. They organize colloquia, duty as Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. discussion and study groups, and a monthly Anne Bowery has accepted a position as pot-luck. Director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core in the College of Arts and Sciences. We are especially proud to announce that five Fortunately, she will continue to teach at least students completed their Ph.D.s this year and one course a year for our department, and were hooded in the August graduation direct dissertations, as time permits. Anne exercises. They are David Alexander (two provided able leadership the past three years. year teaching appointment at Calvin College), She improved the website about our graduate Jay Bruce (tenure-track position at John program, clarified a variety procedures and Brown University), Jesse Jordan (tenure-track policies germane to the graduate program, and position at Mount Saint Mary’s in enhanced graduate student awareness of Emmitsburg, Maryland), Taryn Whittington essential information and timelines. For her (permanent position at Malone College), and good work, we are grateful. John Wolfe (teaching as a lecturer for our department this year). In addition, three other I am also pleased that Dr. Bob Roberts students have taken full-time teaching (Director) and Dr. Alex Pruss (Associate positions this year in other universities or Director) have agreed to accept leadership colleges, as they work to complete their roles in the department’s graduate program dissertations. They are Christi and Russ and that they will be ably assisted by Hemati, who share a full-time teaching Elizabeth Roberts, who has agreed to serve position at Houston Baptist University (where assistant to the director, and Ms. Marilyn they will help start a department of McKinney, our department’s office manager. philosophy) and Jonathan Sands-Wise, who We look forward to their leadership in this will be teaching at Georgetown College in important area. Kentucky. We are very proud of them, one and all, and pleased with our placement On November 6-8, we host a conference on successes. Science and Human Nature: Russian and Western Perspectives with assistance from Not only do we have a strong mentoring John Templeton Foundation. The conference program to help our students become good is co-sponsored by the Society of Christian teachers, from the beginning our students are Philosophers. We have a fine program, which encouraged to be active researchers. We are can be found here (along with information proud to say that two of our graduate students about registration and housing) will be presenting at the APA’s Central www.baylor.edu/philosophy Please attend, if Division meeting this year. Moreover, at the possible. last Central Division meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP), five of our Let me bring four more items to your graduate students presented papers, while at attention. First, the annual newsletter arrives the Eastern Division meeting, three of them in your mailbox about a month before Baylor did so. And three of the presenting students Homecoming on October 31-November 1, were first year students. No other university 2008. Let me encourage you to attend and to had so many students presenting at either SCP visit the department while you are here. Once conference. If any of you who are faculty at again, we will host a Homecoming Lecture.

2 This year, Dr. Robert C. Roberts, in order to have current information on you or Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, will others who are our graduates. If you are present “The Emotions of Animals.” The interested in receiving an electronic lecture is on October 31, 3:30-4:45 p.m. in newsletter from the department to keep you Morrison Hall, 105, with a reception and apprised of our work and aspirations, please refreshments to follow upstairs in the foyer return the enclosure with your email included. (near MH 217) afterwards. Please plan on Visit our website: www.baylor.edu/philosophy joining our faculty and students at this lecture and its many links so that you might learn and reception. more about both the department, individual Second, this past year many of you made faculty, and our undergraduate and graduate financial contributions to the department. students, and the various activities, events, Your gifts allowed our faculty and students to and programs that manifest the vibrant enjoy increased resources for professional intellectual and communal character of our development or academic success. In department. ~~ Michael Beaty addition, generous gift from one donor helped Greetings former students and other friends students attend the St. Andrews program and of the department, refurbish our graduate lounge. Other gifts As some of you know, Stuart Rosenbaum and helped keep a bright student in school whose I have edited a series of books on family met unexpected financial difficulties. contemporary moral issues published by For your individual and collective generosity, Prometheus Press. When Prometheus began we are grateful. A detailed listing of our discussing with us the possibility of editing a departmental endowments is available book on moral and political issues related to elsewhere in the newsletter. Please contribute disabilities, we immediately thought of to one or more of them. Indeed, consider how including our retired colleague, Kay Toombs, you might help the department as a part of as a co-editor. Baylor’s major fundraising drive. Consider endowing a chair for one of our outstanding Kay was an outstanding member of this faculty, providing an endowment for faculty from the mid 1980s until her scholarships for undergraduates, graduate retirement in 2000. In 1973 Kay was students or international students, or diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite her endowing lectureships for nationally or illness, Kay completed both her internationally distinguished visiting faculty, undergraduate and master’s work at Baylor to name just a few possibilities. Please and subsequently received her Ph.D. in contact me if you would like to discuss these philosophy at Rice University. After or other ideas. returning to Baylor to join the faculty, she, along with Ann Miller and Bill Hillis, created Third, without Ms. Marilyn McKinney, the one of the most successful courses ever taught department’s office manager, the necessary at Baylor, Literary and Philosophical routines of successful departmental life would Perspectives on Medicine. That course was run awry. She manages the machinations of the beginning of a series of events eventually our department with care and clarity and has culminating in Baylor’s Medical Humanities taken the initiative to renovate past practices Program now directed by Jim Marcum of our and initiate new ones that is improving the department. Because of Kay’s own disability quality of our work. She handles an and her professional exploration of issues intimidating workload with grace and good related to disability, she was, of course, an will and we are grateful for her good work. invaluable source for the book which should come out later this year. I regret to report that Finally, each year we include a list of Kay’s husband, Dee, died this year, and we department graduates. Examine it carefully. grieve with Kay in her loss. Let us know of any changes we need to make

3 In June I assumed a three year appointment as People’s emotions can be sophisticated in Baylor’s ombudsperson for faculty. The several ways. We can have feelings about appeal of the position is that it is intended to things that are not present to us. Our facilitate resolutions of conflicts or disputes emotion can change with a slight change for the faculty in an informal, impartial, and in our conception of a situation. We can confidential manner. The appointment to the deny what an emotion is “telling” us, even position is by the provost upon the while we are subject to it. We can have recommendation of the Faculty Senate. emotions that depend on our having followed a complex narrative. We can Presently Stuart and I are focusing on a third have emotions about our emotions. edition of our work on capital punishment. We hope to complete that by February for a 2009 publication. ~~ Robert Baird In this Homecoming talk, I will compare the emotions of some animals, such as squirrels and baboons, with human emotions, and will show that animals’ emotions are sometimes surprisingly sophisticated. But there is still a crucial, though somewhat fuzzy difference between human and animal mental life, and I will try to say what that difference is.

Fellow Philosophers: I am pleased to report that I was promoted to full professor beginning August 1, 2008. I thoroughly enjoy my teaching in the department of philosophy at Baylor where the students are easy to inspire and my colleagues are supportive. For the 2008-2009 school year I will be on research leave at the University of Notre Dame serving as the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics & Culture. I am working on a book on the U. S. federal courts’ approach to the epistemological status of theological claims in free exercise and establishment clause religion cases.

In August 2007, Cambridge University Press published my monograph, Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Homecoming Presentation Choice. I also completed manuscripts for two forthcoming books: (1) a personal memoir that will be published in January 2009 by “How Sophisticated Are the Emotions of Brazos Press, Return to Rome: Confessions of Animals?” – Dr. Robert Roberts an Evangelical Catholic; and (2) an introduction to politics for Christian college students, Is Statecraft Soulcraft? :Politics and Christianity (InterVarsity Press, 2009). 4 United States, including churches, youth I also published several book chapters and groups, and institutes. ~~ Frank Beckwith articles since last year’s Homecoming: 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ entries in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Hello Philosophy Alumni, Education in the United States, eds. by James I hope this letter finds you and yours leading C. Carper and Tom Hunt (Westport, CT: happy and productive lives. The academic Praeger Publishers, 2008); 4 entries in the year 2007/2008 has been quite eventful both Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, eds. personally and professionally. In the personal David L. Hudson, David A. Schultz, and John domain, I continue to enjoy my life as dual R. Vile (Washington, DC: Congressional citizen of Austin and Waco. I’m also looking Quarterly Press); “Is Morality Relative?,” forward to my parents relocating to Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses Georgetown, TX. It will be great to have on Christian Apologetics, eds. Paul Copan them so close by. I traveled a good bit this and William Lane Craig (Nashville, TN: summer for yoga related camps and Broadman & Holman, 2007); "Abortion," conferences and did manage to get some Church and State Issues in America Today, 3 writing done in between. I’ve had a good volumes, eds. Steven L. Jones and Ann W. year publication wise. I had an article on Duncan (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, Plato’s Euthydemus come out in Southwest 2007); “Intelligent Design, Religious Philosophical Review and I’m very excited Motives, and the First Amendment,” in about my article, “You are what you Read: Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Reading the Books of Augustine’s Michael Ruse in Dialogue, eds. Robert B. Confessions,” which will appear in Stewart (Minneapolis: Fortress Books, 2007); Augustinian Studies. I’m particularly pleased “Christians, Politics, and the Separation of by the venue because it is about my favorite Church and State,” in Reasons for Faith, eds. article that I’ve ever written and also because C. Meister, and N. L. Geisler (Wheaton, IL: it is dedicated to Carl Vaught’s memory. Crossway Books, 2007); “Bioethics, the Christian Citizen, and the Pluralist Game.” I just ended a three-year stint as Graduate Christian Bioethics 13 (2007): 1-12; “Doing Director of the Philosophy Department. I’ve What Comes Naturally and Not Knowing It: enjoyed my time working with the graduate A Reflection on J. Budziszewski’s Work.” students in this context and I’m also happy to The Catholic Social Science Review 12 turn over the reins of power to Bob Roberts (2007): 33-40. (and Alex Pruss as associate Grad Director).

I gave invited talks at Princeton University This Fall I’m on University Research Leave. (twice), University of Colorado, Notre Dame I’m really excited about the opportunity to Law School, Palm Beach Atlantic University, devote my full time to finishing A Malone College (2008 John Woolman Philosophic Muse. It is much easier for me to Lecturer), Azusa Pacific University (Common write when I wake up in the morning and say, Day of Learning Lecturer), Arizona State “Okay, this is the only job you have to do University College of Law, and Bishop today. So sit down and do it.” I do have to Gorman High School (my alma mater in Las say I miss all my friends at Baylor and the Vegas, Nevada). I also gave academic papers constant energy of being in the classroom. at several conferences including the American But Baylor will still be there when I get back. Political Science Association, the University Faculty for Life, the American Academy of In the Spring, I will become Director of the Religion, and the Evangelical Theological Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. The BIC is an Society, and the Dialogues of Cultures (at the interdisciplinary, general studies program for University of Notre Dame). I also spoke for a undergraduates at Baylor, housed within the variety of Christian ministries throughout the Honors College. Five sequences of courses

5 comprise the BIC curriculum: World those interested in a book length treatment of Cultures, World of Rhetoric, Social World, these topics, I recommend C. Stephen Natural World, and The Examined Life. Layman’s Letters to a Doubting Thomas These sequences represent fourteen individual (Oxford University Press, 2007). courses for a total of forty-four hours of course work. Students who participate in the My philosophical research agenda remains BIC take these courses instead of regular focused on the thought of Thomas Reid. general studies courses in freshman Over the past year I have written a new paper composition, literature survey, religion, fine on an argument Reid himself identifies as his arts (e.g., art history, music, theater arts), central point against the “Way of Ideas.” The introductory social science (e.g., history, paper is entitled “Thomas Reid’s sociology, political science, psychology), and Experimentum Crucis,” and is currently under laboratory science (e.g., biology, chemistry, review. Over the summer, a paper inspired by physics, environmental studies). Reid’s view of sensations and critical of the dominant naturalism in the philosophy of I’ve been involved with BIC since its mind was accepted (at long last!): “An inception. The Baylor Interdisciplinary Core Argument against Causal Theories of Mental was just beginning when I joined the faculty Content,” forthcoming, American in 1993 and I’m very excited to begin this Philosophical Quarterly. An older paper also new job. I’ll still teach one class a year in the made it into print: “Three Grades of Philosophy Department! Immediate Perception: Thomas Reid’s Distinctions,” Philosophy and I got a good deal of pleasure reading done this Phenomenological Research 76.3 (2008): summer: The Unaccustomed Earth, The Sari 603-632. All of these papers are posted on Shop, Into the Wild, The Hours, Palace of my webpage: Illusions, and Plan B. http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Todd_Buras/www Kind regards, ~~ Anne Bowery /. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ philosophy with our alumni on these topics, ~~ or any other. ~~ Todd Buras Dear Friends of Philosophy, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The fall of 08 marks the beginning of my ~~ sixth year at Baylor! It’s hard to believe how The highlight of my last year was serving as quickly the time is passing. My family is Director of the Baylor in Scotland program in the becoming populated by increasingly school spring of 2008 in St. Andrews. My wife Jan age children. My former students are turning (who took an unpaid leave) and I went with increasingly into old friends. I look forward fourteen wonderful Baylor students to the to seeing many of you at homecoming this University of St. Andrews for the spring term. fall. Jan and I enjoyed our time with the Baylor students immensely, and it was glorious to see I continue to teach an introductory class each the beauty and historic sights of Scotland. term. The class has morphed into a semester- Highlights of the term included a one week trip long comparison of theism and naturalism. with all the students to England, and short trips We examine the best arguments and biggest on our own to Iona and Loch Ness. I was invited problems facing each tradition. In the process to read a paper to the Philosophy Department in we compare the respective explanation each St. Andrews and to speak twice to the Theology offers of the universe, human nature, and Research Seminar. My only regret is that I did good and evil. The syllabus for the course is not find enough time for golf! online (http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Todd_Buras/ww From a scholarly point of view, I finally finished w/1321-fall-08.htm), and is full of links to (in May, about four months late) my new book, interesting readings, many of them free. For Kierkegaard: An Introduction, which will be

6 released by Cambridge University Press early in where shared traditions, learned community, 2009. Because that project took longer than and excellence of character, mind, and heart planned, I am now somewhat under the gun to are embraced. finish my next project, which is a book on Natural Signs of God’s Reality. This book, As I enter my second year as master of which will be published by Oxford University Brooks College, I have reluctantly decided to Press, looks at the traditional theistic arguments step down as director of the Institute for Faith as attempts to articulate “natural signs” that point and Learning. I first came to Baylor in 2001 to God’s reality, signs that can be perceived by to work in IFL, and my seven years there ordinary people without philosophical expertise. have been full and rewarding. However, this Since I have a research leave this fall I still hope move will enable me to give all the more to finish this book on time by June 2009. attention to my teaching and scholarship while serving in Brooks College. Publications this year included “The Historicity On that note, I enjoyed offering a section of of the Gospel of John: From What Perspective classical philosophy in the spring. I always Should It Be Assessed?” in Richard Bauckham approach that course under the influence of and Carl Mosser, eds., The Gospel of John and Pierre Hadot. He is entirely right to insist that Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, ancient philosophy was, above all, a way of 2008). Since this was a paper I originally read life, and that we also should be real lovers of at a conference in St. Andrews, it seems real wisdom. The rest of my teaching has appropriate that it should appear while I was in been in the Great Texts Program where I Scotland. Other highlights of the year included recently have offered our ancients course giving the Julia Watkin Memorial Lecture at St. (Homer through Augustine), our medieval Olaf College in November, 2007, on the subject: course (Boethius through Shakespeare), and “Kierkegaard: Father of Existentialism or Critic our twentieth century course. of Existentialism.” I repeated this lecture to a public audience at Regent College in Vancouver, In addition to my efforts to pursue such Canada last summer. (Following that week, Jan wisdom in the classroom, I hope that my and I celebrated our 39th anniversary by taking a writing bears some signs of the same thing. cruise from Vancouver to Alaska and back, an Last fall saw the release of The Schooled experience I highly recommend). Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2007), a We are spending our research leaves (my wife book I co-edited with Michael Beaty. The has leave also) at Calvin College in Michigan. book will be featured this fall as the subject of Jan and I are enjoying the beautiful fall weather a special panel discussion at the American here, but looking forward to returning to Waco Academy of Religion. In addition, I in January. By that time we will be ready to contributed a chapter, “Forming Faculty for leave the snow and enjoy a Texas winter. ~~ C. Mission, to a book entitled The Baylor Stephen Evans Project: Taking Christian Higher Education ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to the Next Level (St. Augustine’s Press, ~~ 2007). Another book editor reprinted one of New experiences and a deepening love for the my articles, “Can Baptist Theology Sustain intellectual community that Baylor provides the Life of the Mind?” in The Scholarly mark out two features of the past year for me. Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on Together with my wife and son, I moved onto the Future of Baptist Higher Education campus to serve as master of Baylor’s first (Mercer University Press, 2008). Perhaps residential college: Brooks College. most enjoyable for me, though, has been the Alongside 370 undergraduates of all continuation of my published exchange with classifications and majors, we have the John Schellenberg on the subject of divine privilege of sharing in a collegiate way of life hiddenness. My piece, “Reasonable Doubts

7 about Reasonable Nonbelief,” in Faith and John Shahan Philosophy (July 2008), maintains that his atheological argument fails on multiple grounds, and thus that believers have no Dear Alumni: reason to doubt God’s existence, at least not It is a pleasure to write you this fall. As I for the reasons that he adduces.~~Douglas have written in previous newsletters, I am a Henry philosopher of science and since arriving at Baylor I have had the luxury of extending my research and teaching interests into the history Endowments and philosophy of medicine. I recently published a book on the philosophy of medicine, An Introductory Philosophy of W. J. Kilgore Fellowship Fund Medicine: Humanizing Modern Medicine. I am using it to teach a philosophy of medicine proceeds designated for student scholarships course during the fall semester. I also teach history of medicine then. During the 2008 spring semester, I participated in a conference Faculty Excellence Fund on Models and Methods for Graduate Education in Medical Humanities, with a proceeds support professional development of philosophy paper, “Undergraduate Medical Humanities: faculty Relationship to Medical School Education and Graduate Medical Humanities”. The conference was sponsored by The Institute for Philosophy Excellence Fund: Graduate Students the Medical Humanities, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, and proceeds support professional development of graduate held from March 6-9, 2008. I also gave an students invited paper, “Cancer: Causation, Complexity, and Systems Biology”, at a conference on the Philosophical and Philosophy Excellence Fund: Undergraduate Historical Aspects of Causation in Biomedical Students Sciences, which was sponsored by the Institute for the History of Medicine and proceeds support professional development Health, at Geneva University, in Switzerland,

of undergraduate students and held from March 31-April 2, 2008. I gave another invited paper, “Systems Biology: A Kuhnian Scientific Revolution?”, I continued my work in epistemology and at a conference on the Impact, Relevance and philosophy of religion, which included the Open Issues of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of appearance of the first volume in the Oxford Scientific Revolutions, which was sponsored Studies in Philosophy of Religion. This series by the University of Athens in Greece, and publishes original articles by leading figures held on August 21-23, 2008. I am currently in the area of philosophy of religion, with working on a book-length manuscript on new volumes anticipated to appear each year. systems biology, Conceptual Foundations of The second volume is now in press, and work Systems Biology. In addition, I serve as the on the third volume is underway as well. director of Baylor’s Medical Humanities --Jon Kvanvig Program, with Dr. Michael Attas as associate director. The program sponsors an annual Masters Degrees Awarded lectureship in the medical humanities and the lecturer this year is Dr. Kay Toombs. Finally, 2007-2008 I am directing over a half-dozen honors theses Daniel Johnson this year, ranging in topics from gene therapy

8 and narrative medicine to a political election student, and one excellent conference in Fort Worth. presentation by a student. I have also been Publications 2008 by Dr. James Marcum heavily blogging on philosophical and Marcum, J.A. 2008. An introductory theological topics at philosophy of medicine: humanizing modern alexanderpruss.blogspot.com. ~~ Alex medicine. Philosophy and Medicine Pruss Series, volume 99. xv + 369 pp. New York: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Springer. ~~ Marcum, J.A. 2008. Does systems biology Having never before had an administrative represent a Kuhnian paradigm shift? post, I was reluctant to accept Mike’s New Phytologist 179: 587-589. invitation to be Graduate Program Director Marcum, J.A. 2008. Reflections on for a couple of years. But Alex Pruss was humanizing biomedicine. Perspectives in willing to lend a hand, and my wife Elizabeth Biology offered to back me up on details (which I am and Medicine 51: 392-405. inclined to neglect), so I accepted the job. It Marcum, J.A. 2008. Instituting science: has been gratifying to have closer and more discovery or construction of scientific frequent contact with our graduate students, knowledge? Forthcoming in and I’m enthusiastic about trying to International Studies in the Philosophy of strengthen our program. Science. Marcum, J.A. 2008. The epistemically This past summer was full. In the latter half of virtuous clinician. Forthcoming in May Elizabeth and I spent two weeks in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Argentina, on an exchange program that Marcum, J.A. 2008. Whitehead’s philosophy Karen Alexander is developing between of organism and systems biology. Baylor and the National University of Forthcoming in Chromatikon IV. Córdoba. I gave eight two-hour lectures on Annuaire de la philosophie en process. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, over the Marcum, J.A. 2008. Cancer biology: from period of two weeks. Then we went to our molecular biology to systems biology. summer place near Parry Sound, Ontario for Forthcoming in Molecular biology: new the remainder of the summer, and I finished research. up four papers that I had been working on for ~~Jim Marcum the past year. Two are for special issues of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Emotion Review, the new journal of the ~~ International Society for Research on Having happily settled into Waco, I have been Emotions. One of them is on emotional enjoying the philosophical and Christian consciousness and personal relationships, the community that the Department provides. other on justice as an emotion disposition. My most major writing tasks have been work The latter paper interacts with the work of on the manuscript of my book One Body: An Robert Solomon of the University of Texas, Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics for Notre who died a year and a half ago. Another Dame University Press (basically only paper, “The Sophistication of Non-Human bibliographic and formatting work remains), Emotions” compares eight dimensions of and producing a 46,000 word survey of human emotions with those of such animals contingency-based cosmological arguments as squirrels and baboons. It will be published for the existence of God. I have been in a volume on animal minds by Cambridge enjoying teaching at Baylor. Particularly University Press. The fourth paper is about enjoyable was a graduate course on sentimentalist meta-ethics, the kind of moral cosmological and ontological arguments, theory that descends from the work of David which resulted in two accepted journal Hume. It is called “Emotions and the Canons articles, one by me and a better one by a of Evaluation” and will be published in the

9 Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of crack the four-minute barrier myself even Emotions, edited by Peter Goldie. As you can though I ran inspired just being on that lovely see, I’ve been preoccupied with emotions track. More mundane matters: I think I’m lately; I also taught a graduate seminar on publishing some interesting stuff this year or emotions and morality at Baylor last spring. early next year. There’s an essay in ~~ Bob Roberts Contemporary Pragmatism on moral ideals, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ one in The Pluralist on Mma Ramotswe’s ~~ wisdom and one in Harvard Theological Dear Alumni/ae, Review on religion being a conversation- Another year has gone by quickly; we stopper. And that book is finally making its continue to thrive beyond our expectations. way into daylight next year, titled I’ve become the director of our Baylor in Pragmatism and the Reflective Life; it’s Oxford program and spent the month of July intended to provide an account of the ideal of last summer teaching two courses at Christ moral living I find in James and Dewey. I Church and breathing reasonably cool air for hope to see you all soon, or if not you all, a change. Texas does not offer such then ya’ll. “Be well; do good work; and keep opportunities, and I’m grateful for them; I in touch.” ~~ Stuart Rosenbaum lived in a wonderful flat right by, and I ran on, the track where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. Needless to say, I didn’t

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded 2007-2008 David Alexander James (Jay) Bruce Jessy Jordan Richard (Taryn)Whittington John Wolfe Updates from Recent Graduates

From David Alexander, Ph.D., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Immediately following graduation my family and I headed for Grand Rapids, Michigan. The trip was great. As we approached Grand Rapids our excitement increased. Michigan is much more beautiful than we thought. About four weeks have passed since we first arrived and we are still settling in. We are excited about our new church, which plans to open an inner-city church plant by spring. My children, Julian (12) and Angel (11), are attending a classical school and are doing quite well. Genevieve, my wife, misses Waco. I am thrilled with my new job. The students are involved and the faculty is top-notch.

From: Jay Bruce, Ph.D., John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas Kathryn and I are enjoying our time here in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. We recently celebrated our daughter's one year birthday: she ate her cake by leaning her face directly into it. I am the first philosopher at John Brown University, so I receive both mail addressed to me and to "the Department of Philosophy"--different but also fun. I think regularly of my friends and mentors at Baylor: in my interaction with students and in my teaching, I regularly think of Todd Buras, a fabulous role model. And just this morning a faculty member asked to borrow a copy of a book by Kierkegaard, making me think of (and talk about) both Steve Evans and Bob Roberts. I recently had 10 an interchange with a colleague in the English department who mentioned David Jeffrey when I said I studied at Baylor. I said that I'd studied medieval commentaries with him and that he was on my dissertation committee. He actually said, "He's a hero of mine." And just today, I was asked to speak before the advisory board for our department, and I received an email asking me for an interview, for the student newspaper. I am teaching Intro. to Philosophy and Ethics this fall, and I am impressed with JBU's students: they are hardworking and eager, not overly impressed with themselves but not shy about considering critically ideas that are presented to them. Transition is never fun--and how we miss friends back in Waco!--but we are grateful to God for sending us to such a warm and welcoming--and positively beautiful--place.

From: Erin Cline, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Eugene, OR It is hard to believe that I am already beginning my third year in the Philosophy and Religious Studies departments at the University of Oregon. This fall I will be teaching combined undergraduate/graduate seminars on the early Confucian philosophers Kongzi and Mengzi, and on classical Daoism. In the coming year I have articles forthcoming in International Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern China, and in an anthology on early Daoism. Most of my attention now is devoted to working on a monograph which focuses on the role of moral cultivation and the family in Western liberal political philosophy and classical Chinese philosophy. I have been awarded a research fellowship at the Oregon Humanities Center for 2009, which will allow me to devote my energies more fully to this work. My husband, Michael, continues to teach part-time in both Religious Studies and Philosophy at Oregon and his book, William James on Ethics and Faith, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. We are also pleased to announce that we are expecting our first child, a son, who is forthcoming in December!

From: Zach Manis, Ph.D., Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri This fall marks the beginning of my fourth year teaching at Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO). I'm currently teaching a special topics course on atheism, as well as working on a manuscript for "Philosophy of Religion: Thinking About Faith, Second Edition," a book co-authored with Dr. Steve Evans (Baylor), to be published by InterVarsity Press. I'm presenting papers at three upcoming conferences this year: "On Divine Essential Goodness and the Nature of Divine Freedom," to be presented at the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers conference (Oct. 3-5); "Foundations for a Kierkegaardian Account of Moral Obligation," to be presented at the Southwestern Philosophical Society conference (Nov. 14-16); and "A Molinist Solution to the Problem of Divine Freedom," to be presented at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Feb. 18-21). My daughter, Nora, turned one in June, and my son, Solomon, turned four in August. My wife Lisa continues to work full-time in our home, raising Nora and Sol, as well as watching two of our friends' children in the afternoons. We continue to enjoy our time in Missouri, where there are four distinct seasons (sorry all you Texans!) and we are close to family in Arkansas.

From: Jonathan Sands-Wise, fifth-year student: Having started teaching at Georgetown College this fall as a visiting assistant professor of philosophy, I am keeping busy teaching four classes and working on finishing up my dissertation under the direction of Dr. Bob Roberts. Fortunately, I was well-prepared by my time at Baylor, so while the load is heavy, I can still take time to enjoy the challenges of teaching and the joys of college life, from football games to a close-knit department that echoes the sort of community we have in the philosophy department at Baylor. Hopefully I will be able to finish my dissertation this year and begin to focus all of my energies on teaching and landing a tenure-track position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~

11 2008-2009 Graduate Students

Final Writing Third Year Students Amy Antoninka--Grove City College Bradley Brummeler--Regent College Jay Howell—Baylor University Heidi Chamberlain—Houghton College Lewis Pearson--Christian Brothers University Daniel Johnson—University of Oregon Natalie Tapken--Baylor University Janelle Klapauszak—Bioloa University Joel Schwartz—Ohio University Sixth Year Students Tom Tong—Wuhan University Christina Hemati--Dallas Baptist University Russell Hemati--Dallas Baptist University Second Year Students Ryan Byerly – Southeastern BTS Fifth Year Students Travis Coblentz – /Gordon-Conwell TS Mike Cantrell--University of Central Matt Douglass – Asbury TS Arkansas Adam Pelser – Wake Forest University Andrew Nam--Biola University Gregory Poore – Union University Sean Riley--Penn State University Christopher Shrock – Harding University Angela Pearson--George Fox University Jonathan Sands Wise--Houghton College First Year Students Clifton Bryant—University of Mississippi Fourth Year Students Nathan Carson—Regent College Mark Boone--Dallas Baptist University Scott Cleveland—Yale Univ. Divinity School Emily Glass--Taylor University David Echelbarger—St. Norbert college Paul Carron--Grand Canyon University John Spano--University of Mississippi

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