Vol. 3 Issue 8, May 2014 FORDHAM PHILOSOPHY NEWS

Nathan Ballantyne's paper, "Knockdown Faculty Publications Arguments," appeared in Erkenntnis 79:3 (2014): 525-543.

John Davenport co-edited with Anthony Rudd Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

Brian Johnson has a chapter in the recently published Epictetus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance, ed. Dane R. Gordon and David B. Suits (RIT Press, 2014).

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei published “Death and Authenticity: Reflections on Heidegger, Rilke, Blanchot” in Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 9:1 (2014): 53-62.

Babette Babich published “On Schrödinger and Nietzsche: Eternal Return and the Moment” in: Christopher Key Chapple, ed., Antonio T. de Nicolás: Poet of Eternal Return (Ahmedabad, India: Sriyogi Publications & Nalanda International, 2014), pp. 157-206.

Gyula Klima published “Being and Cognition” in Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák, eds., Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (: Routledge, 2014), pp. 104-116.

Samir Haddad published "Jacques Derrida" in L. Lawlor and J. Nale, eds., The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 595-601.

Shiloh Whitney presented “The Political Faculty Presentations Economy of Affects: Gender and the Body Image in Affective Labor and Affect Transmission” at the philoSOPHIA conference at Penn State University on May 3, 2014.

John Drummond presented "Intuitions" on April 24, 2014 at the Workshop in Phenomenological Philosophy, held this year at Rice University. He will be presenting “Objects” at the Husserl Circle meeting to be held at Dartmouth College on May 30.

Michael Baur presented a paper entitled "The Being of Groups" at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, held April 11-12, 2014 at Williams College.

Dominic Balestra presented a commentary on Christina Schneider's "Metaphysics Between Redundancy and Esoterics" at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, held April 11-12, 2014 at Williams College.

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Fr Joseph Koterski, SJ gave the following Faculty Presentations cont… presentations: (1) “Conscience: Its Nature and Its Importance,” at the Faculty Day at Cardinal Spellman High School, Bronx, NY on March 14, 2014; (2) “Explaining Free Choice of the Will through Poetic Craft and Philosophical Precision: Dante’s Purgatorio XVI-XIX,” at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH on March 18, 2014; (3) “W.N. Clarke and the Creative Retrieval of Aquinas and Thomism: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence,” at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA on March 25, 2014; (4) “Understanding the Concept of Nature in Classical and Contemporary Forms of Natural Law Theory,” at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA on March 26, 2014; (5) “Thinking with the Mind of the Church: Reflections on Pope Francis,” address Nassau Community College on March 29, 2014; (6) “The Use of Philosophical Principles in Modern Catholic Social Teaching” at the University of Portland, Portland OR on April 15, 2014

Babette Babich spoke at a Panel Discussion, held at New York’s Goethe Institut on Spring Street on April 8, 2014, along with Peter Trawny of Wuppertal and Roger Berkowitz of Bard College, on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks. Report of the conference in The New Yorker online here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/04/is-heidegger-contaminated-by- nazism.html

Reed Winegar presented a talk entitled "On Grace and Dignity" at Fordham's Phi Sigma Tau Induction Ceremony on April 10, 2014 and a paper entitled "Hegel on Beauty and the World- Whole" at the 30th International Hegel Congress in Vienna, Austria on April 25, 2014.

Faculty Honors

Merold Westphal gave the keynote lecture in March at the Society for Pentecostal Studies entitled, "The Spirit and Prejudice: The Dialectic of Biblical Interpretation." In April he gave the Bitar Lectures at Geneva College entitled "Modernity and the Quest for Autonomy" and "Postmodernity and Its 'Other'."

John Davenport has been an active member this spring in the "Managing Group" of the Fordham Faculty Activities Social Innovation Collaboratory (FSIC). This Managing Group is the team that put together our intensive drive towards a successful application to the Ashoka U program -- with preliminary approval announced at the end of April. This selective program makes Fordham part of a network of universities and colleges with special strengths in social innovation -- not only in business schools but in social sciences and humanities. It will build on current service- learning programs and should open up fellowship and internship opportunities for students and potentially new project opportunities for faculty as well. There is a strong network of grantors and donors interested in Ashoka members.

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Dave Kovacs presented "Aquinas and Wealth Disparity" at the Inequalities Graduate Student News conference at on April 5, 2014.

Jacob Archambault published “Aquinas, the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction, and the Kantian Dependency Thesis” Religious Studies 50:2 (2014), 175-192. He also will be a visiting student at the Arché philosophical research center for logic, language, metaphysics, and epistemology at the University of St. Andrews from July to December 2014.

Justin Reppert presented “‘Moral Emotion’ and Moralistic Fallacies” at the Georgetown University Philosophy Conference: Emotions and Emotionality on April 12, 2014.

Hayden Kee presented “Cartesian Atavisms and Phenomenological Anticipations: Husserl Reads Lotze's Logic" at the North American Society for Early Phenomenology: Early Influences of Phenomenology at Boston College on April 4, 2014.

Michael Begun received a DAAD Intensive Language Course Scholarship to study this summer at the Goethe-Institut Berlin.

Tom Kiefer presented two papers: (1) "Correcting for Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Inequality" at Fordham's first annual interdisciplinary GSAS conference on Inequalities, and (2) "Michele Le Doeuff and the Future of Philosophical Pedagogy" at the Long Island Philosophical Society's (LIPS's) annual meeting at Molloy College in Hempstead, Long Island.

Greg Ostdiek, SJ presented the paper Royce, Oppenheim, and the Graced Community: Some Ignatian Aspects of Oppenheim’s Method of Roycean “Interpretive Musement” at the Josiah Royce Society Conference in Honor of Frank Oppenheim, held April 3-6, 2014, at , Cincinnati, .

Francis J. Beckwith (1989) published (1) “Philosophy, Grace, and Reconciliation: Alumni News Reflections of a Catholic Revert,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17.3 (2014); (2) “Fides, Ratio et Juris: How Some Courts and Some Legal Theorists Misrepresent the Rational Status of Religious Beliefs," in P. DeHart and C. Holloway, eds., Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith: Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014); (3) “Arguments from Bodily Rights," in L. Pojman and L. Vaughn, eds., Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Ninth Edition, (Oxford University Press, 2014); (4) "On Making the Case for Life: St. Peter’s Counsel to Always Be Ready,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 13.4 (2013); (5) “Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage,” Ratio Juris: A International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 26.4 (2013); (6) ”Doting Thomists: Evangelicals, Thomas Aquinas, and Justification,” Evangelical Quarterly 85.3 (2013); (7) “Potentials and Burdens: A Reply to Giubilini and Minerva,” Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (2013); (8) "Bork, Robert," "Comstock Act," "Greenawalt, Ken," and "Posner, Richard" entries in Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment, D. L. Hudson & J.R. Vile, eds., (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2013)

3 Vol. 3 Issue 8, May 2014 Terence D. Cuneo (1999) co-authored with Randall Harp “Critical Review of Christine Alumni News cont… Korsgaard’s Self-Constitution” Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (2014): 97-110. He also gave the following presentations: (1) "Audi's Moral Perception," Author Meets Critics Symposium on Robert Audi's Moral Perception, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Diego, CA, April 2014; (2) "Noncausal Moral Explanations," Full Professor Lecture, University of Vermont, April 2014; (3) "From Romans to Liberal Democracy: Some Questions for Wolterstorff," Roundtable on Nicholas Wolterstorff's The Mighty and the Almighty, University of Notre Dame, March 2014; (4) "The Projectability Challenge to Moral Naturalism," Can Normativity Be Naturalized? Symposium,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, March 2014.

Anne Ozar (2009), an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University, will publish "The Plausibility of Client Trust of Professionals" in Business and Professional Ethics Journal 33:1 (forthcoming). She also presented "Blame, Betrayal, and Trust" at the fifth annual meeting of the Workshop in Phenomenological Philosophy at Rice University in April.

Brian G. Henning (2013) presented “In Defense of Speculative, Systematic Metaphysics” at The Metaphysical Society of America, Williams College, April 2014. He also presented “Creative Love: Eros and Agape in Peirce and Whitehead” at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Denver, CO, March 2014.

A Festschrift has been published in honor of the work of Antonio de Nicolás (PhD, 1971), edited by Alumni Honors Christopher Key Chapple entitled Antonio T. de Nicolás: Poet of Eternal Return (Ahmedabad, India: Sriyogi Publications & Nalanda International, 2014).

Adam Konopka has been appointed to the Besl Family Chair in Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH.

Michael S. Dauber (FCRH 2015) gave a lecture on Heidegger's Being and Time for the Undergraduate News Fordham undergraduate philosophy club.

Malcolm Morano (FCLC 2014) presented a paper entitled "The Role of Religious Reasons in a Liberal Democracy" at Pacific University's 18th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on April 5, 2014.

Brian Wright (Gabelli 2014), a philosophy minor, was recently accepted to Columbia University’s masters program in Anthropology, and will be attending in the fall to study Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

4 Vol. 3 Issue 8, May 2014 Undergraduate Phi Sigma Tau Inductees

Fordham College Rose Hill Fordham College Lincoln Center Class of 2014 Class of 2014 Celia E. Aniskovich Jeremy A. Bunting Emily K. Dinan John H. Kim Craig M. Domeier Michael J. Levy Alexa M. Esposito Tyler R. Mann Casey V. Hidalgo Charles P. Martin, Jr. Kathleen E. Hughes Charlotte L. Odence Allyson C. Kelley Tristan K. Paguio Timothy M. Landry Nicholas P. Pereslugoff Brian D. McNiff Michael Zervos Thomas C. Merante Dhurata Osmani Alison M. Silverman Ian B. Suaco Joseph J. Tumolo

Fordham College Rose Hill Fordham College Lincoln Center Class of 2015 Class of 2015 David L. Birkdale Brandon J. Harmer Rachel A. Boles Sophia A. Wiener Alexis N. Carra Eduardo A. Zayas Avila Bruno Casarra Michael S. Dauber Elizabeth R. Fitzpatrick Walter J. Genito, Jr. Madeline A. Kimball Matthew R. Schrepfer

Fordham College Rose Hill Fordham College Lincoln Center Class of 2014 Class of 2014 Inducted in 2013 Inducted in 2013 Daniel A. Baumgarten Joanna G. Matuza Jaimie L. Brogran Malcolm P. Morano Andres Duran Rueda Jennifer M. Grant Robens D. Marcelin Connor J. Moran Joseph N. Posimato Harry A. Prieto Daniel D. Welch

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