DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY 600 FORBES AVENUE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT PITTSBURGH, PA 15282 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED 3 0 3 DUQUESNE GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY NEWS Spring 2013 • Volume 6, Issue 1 DEPARTMENT NEWS The Department is thrilled to announce the Dr. Schwebel’s publications include a chapter entitled “Monad hiring of Tom Eyers as Assistant Professor and Time: Reading Leibniz with Heidegger and Benjamin,” to PROOF Tuesday / April 30 / 2013 12:17 PM within the Philosophy Department. Dr. Eyers be included in the forthcoming book “Sparks Will Fly”: Martin received his Ph.D. from Kingston University Heidegger and Walter Benjamin, edited by Andrew Benjamin and in London and recently completed a Post- Dimitris Vardoulakis. Doctorate Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Eyers specializes in contemporary French The department congratulates George Yancy on philosophy, psychoanalysis (particularly Lacan), and Marxism. his promotion to full Professor! Dr. Yancy has Dr. Eyers will start teaching classes in the fall, including a published prolifically since his hiring in 2007. course on Contemporary Philosophy as well as offering Basic He is the author of Look, A White!: Philosophical Philosophical Questions courses. Dr. Eyers’ published works Essays in Whiteness and Black Bodies, White include his books, Lacan and the Concept of the Real and the Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race as upcoming Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and well as his recently released edited books: Race Marxism in Post-War France (May 2013). and Pedagogy: Scholars of Color Reflect on Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms (2013), Pursuing Trayvon Martin: The department is also excited to announce Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial NEWS FROM ALUMNI the hiring of Paula Schwebel as a visiting Dynamics (2012), Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Assistant Professor within the philosophy Do? (2012), and Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of department. Dr. Schwebel received her Ph.D. Color, Bodies of Knowledge (2012). Dr. Yancy also was recently The department would like to congratulate Matt Eshleman; he recently received in Philosophy and the collaborative program the keynote speaker for conferences at Kent State University, West tenure at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. We are very proud of in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto Chester University and Drake University in addition to multiple your success, Matt. and—after receiving the prestigious SSHRC (Social Sciences invited papers and presentations at other universities. and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Post-Doctoral The department would also like to honor the passing of Cameron Holm. Dr. Fellowship Grant for 2012-2014—recently completed her Matt Lovett received a faculty development grant to develop a Holm passed away on October 10, 2012. Dr. Holm defended his dissertation, positions as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of “Philosophy Before and After the Holocaust” course that will involve “Husserl’s Epistemological Concept of Intersubjectivity” on May 18, 1998. Dr. Antwerp (2011-2012) and the University of Potsdam (2012- a spring breakaway trip to Berlin in 2014. Holm taught at Louisiana University as a professor of philosophy. He is survived 2013). Dr. Schwebel’s areas of specialization include 20th- by his wife and will be dearly missed. Fellow alumni and friend of Cameron, Century and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Frankfurt Martin Krahn recently received a DAAD Intensive Language Course Dr. Chris Nagel, had much to say in honor of Cameron. Provided below is School Critical Theory and Modern Jewish Thought. She will Grant and will be studying at the Goethe Institute in Berlin from an excerpt: be teaching a course on Modern Jewish Philosophy in the fall. June to August. “Cameron was reserved—as he himself might have said, AND THE BODY T HE NON-RATIONAL IN ANCIENT GREEK much like Husserl… EVENTS THOUGHT FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 | 3:15 P.M. SIMON SILVERMAN PHENOMENOLOGY CENTER GUMBERG LIBRARY, FIRST FLOOR WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS: Dr. Emily Austin Wake Forest “Grief and Non-Rational Desire in Plato’s Republic” Dr. Cristina Ionescu Catholic University “The Place of Pleasure and Knowledge Kelly Arenson, with a grant from the NEH, hosted a conference on The Body and The Non-Rational in Ancient Greek in the Fourfold Articulation of Reality As a philosopher and wonderer/wanderer, Cameron came in Plato’s Philebus” Dr. Rachel Singpurwalla University of Maryland “Virtue, External Goods, and Happiness in Plato’s Republic” Email [email protected] for from a ‘hard science’ background, and empathized much Thought on March 15, 2013. Panel attendees included Dr. Emily Austin (Wake Forest), Dr. Christina Ionescu (Catholic additional information. Sponsored by an NEH Endowment Grant, the Department of Philosophy and the McAnulty with Husserl. We spoke often of the tragic ethical implica- University of America) and Dr. Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland, College Park). College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts tions of what we know as the Crisis of European Sciences. Photo credit: Dennis Jarvis We also had a great year for invited speakers. We had excellent presentations in the fall by Dr. C.D.C. Reeve (UNC Cameron’s humanity, his empathy and his enduring need to Chapel Hill), Dr. Karen Stohr (Georgetown), Dr. Jay Lampert (University of Guelph and visiting Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center understand, will be with me always.” Scholar) and our own Dr. Patrick Miller. Additionally, during our spring semester we were honored to have presentations by Dr. Ulrika Björk (University of Uppsala) and Dr. Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago). We would welcome any news from alumni! Contact us at [email protected]. Through Dr. Yancy’s Critical Race Theory Speaker Series, Dr. Robert E. Birt, who discussed the meaning of Black existentialism, and Dr. For news on other events, see our website: www.duq.edu/philosophy Emily Lee, who discussed her work on phenomenology and race, visited campus. FACULTY SCHOLARHIP HIGHLIGHTS GRADUATE NEWS On February 23 the graduate students in philosophy hosted our University of Pittsburgh), as well as keynote presentations by Dr. Kristen Kelly Arenson presented a paper entitled “’Stealing the Wits of the Ron Polansky gave an invited address with John Fritz, titled Seventh Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference: “Philosophy and Ingliss (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Patrick Miller. Wise’? The Lucid and the Drunk in Nicomachean Ethics VII.3,” “Aristotle on Accidental Perception,” at The Catholic University Nature.” Our keynote speaker was Dr. Adrian Johnston (University of at the annual Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy meeting at of America on October 25, 2012, and at the De anima Workshop New Mexico). Duquesne graduate students James Bahoh, Martin Krahn and Jacob Fordham University in October. She was also a commentator on at the University of Pittsburgh on April 13, 2013. Dr. Polansky Greenstine as well as Villanova graduate student Dave Mesing are a paper entitled “The Intrinsic Goodness of Pleasure in Plato’s gave another invited address with Chelsea Harry titled, “When Duquesne also hosted the inaugural Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient organizing the Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philebus,” at the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy held Time is Accidental,” for the Aristotle Symposium on Time at the Philosophy conference. Conference organizers included Duquesne Philosophy: Schelling and Naturphilosophie. The seminar will be led at Duquesne University in February. Dr. Arenson also received Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, philosophy graduate students Jacob Greenstine and Bethany Somma. by Dr. Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England, Bristol) a faculty/student research grant for work with senior philosophy May 12, 2012. The conference was a great success and included presentations by and Dr. Jason Wirth (Seattle University). The seminar will culminate in major Colin Stragar-Rice on the topic, “Consciousness, Desire Drs. Veronique Foti (Penn State University) and Todd Lavin (Clarion a conference on August 5-9, 2013. and Moral Sense in Moral Deliberation.” Additionally, she led Dan Selcer and the undergraduates in his Early Modern Philosophy discussion and movie night about the filmGroundhog Day with courses visited the Posner Collection at Carnegie Mellon University Spring Dissertation Defenses Matt Lovett, “Hegel’s Generative Logic of the One and Many,” Society undergraduates in the Towers residence hall. on April 8 to examine rare first editions of works by Andreas of Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Vesalius, Nicolaus Chelsea Harry defended her dissertation, directed by Dr. Polansky, in Meeting, Rochester, NY. “Between Barebackers: Psychoanalysis and Jennifer Bates recently published a refereed journal article titled, Copernicus, Galileo March, titled “Time (Chronos) in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy and of Sexual Subculture,” Cornell University Psychoanalysis Reading Group “Phenomenology and Life” (on Hegel’s dialectic of “Life” in the Galilee, Francis Bacon, its Place in Early Naturphilosohie (1750-1800).” Phenomenology of Spirit and Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Antony René Descartes and Conference, Ithaca, NY. “Kant & Schiller on Aesthetic Education,” and Cleopatra), in a special issue of Criticism on “Shakespeare and Robert Hooke.