2013 DePauw University Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

Seminar Leader Bios

Chris Cuomo Maurice Manning

Professor of Philosophy and Poet and Professor of English Women’s Studies Transylvania University University of Georgia

Chris Cuomo holds a Ph.D. in Maurice Manning attended philosophy from the University of Earlham College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He has being a professor of Philosophy and taught at DePauw University and in Women’s Studies, she is also an the MFA program at the University of affiliate faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Indiana. Manning has published four Certificate Program and the Institute for African-American books of poetry, including his most recent, The Common Studies. She is the author of Feminism and Ecological Man, which was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing (Routledge) and The Prize in Poetry. His first collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love & of Visions, was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Knowledge (Rowman & Littlefield), which was nominated Poets. He has had works in publications including The New for a Lambda Literary Award and an American Philosophical Yorker, Washington Square, The Southern Review, Association Book Award. She is the co-editor of Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. The Feminist Philosophy Reader (McGraw-Hill). Manning is among the core group of Kentucky writers who Cuomo's research focuses on ethics, feminist philosophies, have been increasingly active in the fight against race, sexuality, environmental ethics and art. Her work in mountaintop removal mining, appearing at rallies and ecofeminist philosophy and creative interdisciplinary protests throughout the state. He has held a fellowship to practice has been influential among those seeking to bring The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown and has been together social justice and environmental concerns. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. currently working on a project on indigenous knowledge concerning climate change in Northern Alaska.

Robert Figueroa Erik Wielenberg

Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Philosophy University of North Texas DePauw University

Robert Figueroa holds a Ph.D. from Erik Wielenberg earned his Ph.D. the University of Colorado at Boulder. from the University of Massachusetts He was an award-winning teacher at at Amherst. He is currently chair of Colgate University before taking up his the Philosophy Department at De- current position in the Department of Pauw University, where he teaches a Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North wide variety of popular courses including “Moral Character Texas, where he also serves as Director of the and the Good Life,” “Moral Epistemology,” and “Godless Environmental Justice Project. He and Sandra Harding Universe.” co-edited Science and Other Cultures: Issues in the Philosophies of Science and Technology (Routledge: Wielenberg is the author of Values and Virtue in a Godless 2003), culmination of a three-year partnership between Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and God and the National Science Foundation and the American the Reach of Reason: C. S. Lewis, David Hume, and Ber- Philosophical Society on diversity and the philosophy of trand Russell (Cambridge, 2007) as well as co-editor of science. New Waves in Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave Macmil- lan, 2008); he is also the author of many essays on topics Figueroa’s current research interests include Philosophy of ranging from “disgust and moral knowledge” to Heritage, Environmental Identity, Climate Refugees, “Aristotelian love-making.” Critical Race Theory, Feminist Philosophy, and Philosophy for Children. Recently he has been studying ecotourism and environmental justice at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia, leading to several publications in geography and philosophy.