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Volume XXII College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Fall 2007 Mike Dunn Retires on Michael Dunn, a fixture in the when in fact he is trying to prove a new department and in the university for theorem. Jnearly 40 years, retired June 30. Mike Occasionally, campus conversations joined the philosophy department in 1969 become confused at the mention of after a brief period at Wayne State Univer- “Dean Dunn,” a confusion that arises sity. He followed the WSU chair, George because Mike’s wife, Sally, was Dean of Nakhnikian (now professor emeritus), to the University Division. Sally also retired IU and has been here ever since. June 30. Their son, Jon William Dunn, Mike’s interest in logic began at Oberlin is associate director for technology of the College, where he received his BA in 1963; Digital Library Program. Jon’s wife, Erin, he continued as a student of Nuel Belnap works for UITS. Their daughter, Jennifer at the University of Pittsburgh, where he Knight Dunn, has an MS from SPEA and received a PhD in philosophy in 1966. her husband, John Knight, is a graduate He has always been involved in multidis- student in chemistry at IUPUI. However,

ciplinary activities, because logic is one of Eli Blevis the family has no known connection with those areas that cannot be neatly pigeon- Mike Dunn Dunn Meadow. holed into the usual academic departments. Mike was honored with a symposium, Mike was made full professor in 1976; In addition to his official administrative a reception, and a dinner on April 19. in 1989, he was named the Oscar Ewing service, Mike has led or served on more ­Michael McRobbie, who was then provost Professor of Philosophy, as well as a profes- than 70 faculty committees at all levels and and president-elect, started the festivities sor of computer science. He was also a has been on practically every committee with a talk entitled From Intensional Logics founding faculty member in the Cognitive having to do with computing at IU, includ- to Gaggle Theory: A Philosopher’s Journey Science Program. ing chairing the Information Technology through the Academy. He then presented Mike has combined research, teaching, (IT) Committee, which put together the Mike with the Provost’s Medal; it was only and service throughout his career. His University’s strategic plan for IT in 1999. the second time this has been awarded. At research is reflected in more than 80 pub- Mike admits to close friends that he is the reception which followed, Mike was lications, including 4 books and over 130 an avid multitasker, and could not combine presented with a memorial booklet from talks at conferences and universities. He has his research and administrative careers in the Logic Group and a graphic geneal- received fellowship awards from Fulbright, particular without the ability to be in a ogy from former student Paul Syverson the National Endowment for the Humani- meeting seeming to take scrupulous notes, (continued on page 4) ties, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and research support from the National Science Foundation. He was twice Hanson Named Provost chair of the Department of Philosophy, hilosophy’s very own Karen Hanson has been named executive vice president and served as the first executive associate Pand provost of the IU Bloomington campus. President Michael McRobbie dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. announced the appointment on July 5. He was the founding dean of the School of Karen is the first permanent provost to be appointed on the Bloomington Informatics, which in 2001 became the first campus. In this position, she will report directly to President McRobbie and serve completely new school at IU in a quarter as the chief academic officer of the Bloomington campus. She will oversee academic of a century. He has chaired 17 doctoral and budgetary policy and priorities, and facilitate the attainment of the highest dissertations, most in philosophy, but also quality faculty and student body by providing leadership in matters related to in cognitive science, computer science, and academic programs and policies, promotion and tenure, faculty recognition, re- mathematics. search, university outreach, and student recruitment and retention. He has been a visitor at the Australian Karen joined our department in 1976. She served as department chair from National University, University of Mel- 1997–2002, and was named Rudy Professor in 2001. She also is an adjunct profes- bourne, and Oxford, among others. In sor of gender studies, American studies, and comparative literature. She has been Australia, he met another logician who has dean of the Honors College since 2002. Karen says, “I’m honored to have been risen in academic administration, Michael chosen as provost, and I’m grateful to President McRobbie for giving me the McRobbie, and was an examiner on his opportunity to serve, in this capacity, the campus and university that I love.” PhD dissertation. Alumni news

ric C. Barnes, MA’89, PhD’90, is an relations and public affairs consultancy, tion and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy Eassociate professor of philosophy at specializing in education and workforce of Michael Krausz. He lives in St. Lewes, Southern Methodist University in Dallas. development. Del. His book The Paradox of Predictivism is Christine Arnold Keck, BA’89, has been Jack Green Musselman, PhD’00, is forthcoming from Cambridge University selected as a member of the 2006–07 class director of the Center for Teaching Excel- Press. “Thanks to all the Indiana philoso- of the Sen. Richard G. Lugar (LLD’91) lence at St. Edward’s University, a liberal phers who taught me,” he writes. Excellence in Public Service Series for arts college in Austin, Texas. He and his Kyle S. Barnett, BA’92, of Louisville, women living in Indiana. She is senior vice wife, Elizabeth Green Musselman, MA’95, Ky., is in a tenure-track position in the De- president and co-manager of the Evans- PhD’99, who now has tenure at South- partment of Communications at Bellarmine ville Commercial Banking Group. Keck western University, have a son, Liam. University in Louisville. serves on the board of Historic Landmarks Summer Johnson, BA’03, is an assistant In May 2006, Aaron B. Carpenter, Foundation of Indiana and as a commis- professor of medical ethics at the Alden BA’04, wrote, “I’m moving off to Poland sioner on Evansville’s Historic Preservation March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medi- after the new year.” At the time, he was liv- Commission. cal College in Albany, N.Y. She serves as ing in Northampton, Mass. Michael Krausz, MA’67, is the Milton director of graduate studies and as direc- Brian P. Clifford, Cert/BA’03, JD’06, C. Nahm Professor in the Department of tor of a program studying ethical issues in is an associate at the law firm of Baker Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn innovative health technologies. Johnson & Daniels. He practices in construction, Mawr, Pa. In 2003, a festschrift on his received her doctorate in bioethics and environment, and real-property litigation in work was edited by Andreea Ritivoi and health policy from Johns Hopkins Univer- Fort Wayne, Ind. published by Rodopi Publishers, Interpreta- sity in fall 2006. Jay A. Diskey, BA’81, MA’88, is execu- tive director of the school division of the Visit IUAlumniCareers.com, the IU Alumni Association’s online career services Association of American Publishers, head- center. Search for jobs posted by employers, post your resume for review by quartered in Washington, D.C. Previously, employers, or search for an alumni mentor for career advice. he ran Diskey & Associates, his own public

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Undergraduate Award winners, left to right, Isabel Estevez, Alex Boeglin, and M. Tyler King, with Director of Undergraduate Studies Sandy Shapshay 2 Alumni feature Edwin Mares (PhD’90) I started at Indi- feel guilty about luring people into lives of these universities, but the job market being ana University in sloth—it’s just what I do. what it was (and I imagine still is), I took 1984, after being an After leaving Indiana, I took up a Cana- up the first tenure track position offer that I undergraduate near dian government postdoctoral fellowship was given, which was at Victoria University Toronto. I came with at The Australian National University. My of Wellington in New Zealand. an interest in inten- choice of location was directly influenced So, in 1993 I headed back down under. tionality and fictional by Mike. At the ANU I met Bob Meyer, My department was then the home of objects, but during with whom I maintain a close friendship Hughes and Cresswell of modal logic fame. Nino Cocchiarella’s and close working relationship (we have Unfortunately, George Hughes died within course on Montague written four papers together). My two years a year of my arrival, but it remained an ex- grammar, I decided that I had to become in Australia were absolute bliss. I recom- cellent place to do logic and philosophy in a logician. At about the same time as I was mend a postdoc highly (nice work if you general. Max Cresswell and I became good in Nino’s course, Mike Dunn suggested can get it). And having one’s boss 14,000 friends almost immediately. Although I was that I look into the logic of fiction. This miles away is a real bonus. I had a wonder- desperate at the time to work on something sealed my fate—I wrote a dissertation on ful time doing relevance logic and wander- other than relevance logic (which I had to that topic. ing around Australia. Between looking at call “relevant logic” because I was down I can’t say that I (or anyone else) loved kangaroos, koalas, wonderful colorful fish under), Max eventually convinced me to that thesis, but it did get me started as on wonderful colorful coral reefs, very write about its philosophical interpreta- a logician. The appendix, which gives a scary snakes and spiders and dozens of tion. Max kept attacking relevant logic semantics for identity in relevant logic, was other things that can kill you in extremely (in conversation), and I just had to reply. published in Studia Logica. What was most painful ways, and waiting patiently and Eventually this resulted in my book, Rel- important about the thesis process was my futilely by rivers for platypuses, I wrote a evant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation apprenticeship as a philosopher and logi- few papers about logic. (Cambridge University Press, 2004). cian. Mike Dunn was the perfect mentor. When my postdoc ended, I returned to I have been in Wellington ever since. He was always there when I needed advice, Canada via a three-month trip through Asia Professionally and personally, life is good. but he wasn’t pushy. And he showed me and Europe. I stayed for a while with an- Rob Goldblatt, Neil Leslie, and I started a how to write a logic paper. I have always other former Hoosier, Eros Corazza, at the Centre for Logic, Language, and Computa- tried to emulate him when I supervise my University of Geneva. I did the European tion in 2001. Rob and I currently have a own students. conference circuit that summer (1991). research grant to write a book on quanti- I loved my time in Bloomington. I had I can recommend this as well. European fied modal and substructural logic. With always been good at hanging out, but even conferences have a wonderful relaxed my colleague Stuart Brock, I just published being modest about it, I must say that at atmosphere. You can meet people and talk a book on the realist-antirealist debate in grad school I reached a level where I could philosophy while looking at beautiful art or metaphysics (Realism versus Antirealism, have competed internationally. I remember architecture, or eating the most amazing Acumen, 2007). I live with my lovely wife, with extraordinary fondness having coffee food. I try at every opportunity to return Sue, and have two extremely nice step- with Tim Day in the evenings (at the Run- to Europe. daughters, Lee and Jane. And we have two cible Spoon), watching stupid videos with When I got back to Canada, I taught excellent dogs—Zermela and Lola (I know, him and Adriano Palma, and hanging out for a year on the east coast—at Dalhousie I know, I should have named the other in the coffee room in Sycamore Hall with University—and then a year on the west one Frankel, but I didn’t get to choose her Paul Spade and the gang. I also recall Ray- coast—at the University of Victoria. I name). Plus, I have a breathtaking view mond Smullyan presenting us with the two would have been happy to stay in either of from my balcony. envelope problem. That stopped us from doing anything else except talking about it for at least a semester. (And it went on Fisk Receives Honorary degree in Hungary from there. I took it to Dalhousie Univer- ilton Fisk has been retired for 10 years now, but that hasn’t kept him from sity, where it caused similar damage and at Mwriting, lecturing, and traveling. In June, he went to Hungary, where he least one article was written about it.) received an honorary doctorate from the University of Debrecen. I was a flatmate for two years with Paul This university is the second largest in Hungary and has its roots in a Calvinist and Jennifer Syverson. They were great flat- college that was established in the 1500s. Milton gave lectures there on political mates. (I just can’t bring myself to use the philosophy in 1997 and 2002, and got to know several faculty members, including American “roommate”—it sounds like we Istvan Bujalos, who is now dean of the university’s college of liberal arts. “We have shared a room. We were good friends, but a lot of connections, and several of the people at Debrecen have been at IU,” said not that good.) I was a terrible influence Milton. on them. They were foody and didn’t have In addition to receiving the honorary degree, which recognized Milton’s work a television. I had a TV and was addicted on health care reform and the public good, he presented a paper at Debrecen on the to ordering in. It seems to me that we philosophy of ethics. spent an awful lot of time eating takeaway Milton is the author of Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of Chinese food and watching Miami Vice or American Health Care Reform, published in 2000, and is currently working on a Dallas (ah, the ’80s). Later, a colleague of book about why we have ethics. “It’s the kind of problem you get in a freshman mine was to accuse me of ruining his career philosophy course, but nobody’s ever answered it,” he said. by teaching him computer games. I don’t

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