Duquesne Graduate Philosophy News • Spring 2016 duq.edu/philosophy Department of Philosophy 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 PhilosophyDepartment GRADUATE NEWS • SPRING 2017 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1 Department News This has been another successful and stimulating year for the secured a Diversity Project Grant from Hypatia: a feminist philosophy Philosophy Department. We are happy to announce the promotion journal in support of the D-WiP conference. of Dr. Jennifer Bates to Professor in Fall 2016, and in Spring 2017, the promotion of Dr. Jay Lampert to Professor and Dr. Tom Eyers to Our recent alumni have also had a busy year. Associate Professor. Jim Bahoh, Ph.D. ’16, was awarded a prestigious VolkswagenStiftung/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Renowned philosopher Dr. Simon Critchley (New School for Social Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Bonn. GRADUATE NEWS continued from inside Research) visited Duquesne University on November 17–18 to give There, he will work on a new research project with a seminar for the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center’s 35th the heading, “The Critique of Representation in JACOB GREENSTINE, “Diverging Ways: The Trajectories of MARTIN KRAHN, “The Structure of Logical and Natural Concepts Annual Symposium “Life, Death and Play: Philosophy in Literature, German Idealism: The Historical and Systematic Ground of Recent Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze,” Contemporary in Hegel’s System,” October 14. Sport and Psychoanalysis.” Ontologies of ‘Events.’” More specifically, this project will examine Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, ed. Jacob Greenstine and TREY WEISE, “Reading Wordsworth’s ‘Prelude’ with Adorno’s the relation between Heidegger and Deleuze’s theories of events on Ryan Johnson, 2017. Aesthetic Theory: Apocalyptic Imagination, Utopian Materiality, The Heidelberg Exchange program continues this year, with the basis of their respective engagements with Kant, Maimon, and MARTIN KRAHN, “Der Trieb und das Entlassen der Idee,” Idee, and Hope for Reconciled Subjectivity,” October 14. Heidelberg University hosting Ph.D. student Jiho Oh for the Spring Schelling. Jim will also teach a seminar on this research during his Geist, Freiheit: Hegel und die zweite Natur, ed. Pirmin Stekeler- 2017 semester. time in Bonn. JOSH STURMAN, “On Certainty in Husserlian Phenomenology,” EVENTS, continued from cover Weithofer and Wolfgang Neuser, 2017. November 11. Peter Libbey won a DAAD intensive language grant to study MACKENZIE LEFOSTER, “The Consolation of Philosophers: ANDREW COLE (Princeton University), “The Elements in Hegel and In addition to her several extracurricular commitments to support COLIN BODAYLE, “Hegel’s Inverted World,” November 11. German over the summer, as did Aaron Higgins-Brake and Rebuilding Dignity and Self after Sexual Assault,” In the Sphere of Marx,” October 21. undergraduate students, Christina Rawls, Ph.D. ’15, assisted Kimberley Tucker last summer. This year’s Philosophy Essay Prize the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons, ed. in establishing the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) at ANN CAHILL (Elon University), “Must Survivors of Sexual Violence was presented to Colin Bodayle for his essay “Hegel’s Bizarro Simon Smith and James Beauregard, 2016. Dissertation Defenses Brown University’s Pembroke Center, and is pleased to announce Disclose Their Assaults? Title IX, Mandatory Reporting, and the Role World,” and Jacob Greenstine was awarded a McAnulty Dissertation the project’s completion. Brock Bahler, Ph.D. ’14, published , “Heidegger and Deleuze: The Groundwork of JEFFREY LAMBERT, “Absolute Forgiveness: Material Intimacy and JAMES BAHOH of the Confidant,” November 2. Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2016–2017. Jeff his monograph Childlike Peace in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty: Evental Ontology” Recognition in Hegel,” Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II: New MICHAL PIEKARSKI (Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw), Lambert received a Travel Grant from the APA to attend the Intersubjectivity as Dialectical Spiral, and co-edited Philosophy of Director: Dr. Daniel Selcer Dimensions of Forgiveness, ed. Court Lewis, Wilmington: Vernon “Blindness to Normativity,” November 4. Pedagogy Workshop at the 21st American Association of Philosophy Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries, both with Lexington Press, 2016. JUSTIN HABASH, “Early Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of Teachers (AAPT) Workshop-Conference. Tristana Martin-Rubio KELLY ARENSON (Duquesne University), “Epicureans on Love, Sex, Books. He was also appointed to their Series Editorial Board for the Nature” FRANK SMECKER, “Mapping the Abstract Essence of Concrete and Marriage,” December 2. Philosophy of Childhood series. Nathan Eckstrand, Ph.D. ’14, was Existence: An Analysis of the Privative Form of Value, an Director: Dr. Ronald Polansky hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor by Ft. Hays University to teach Polansky Grant Winners Overdetermined Category,” Crisis and Critique Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, SASA STANKOVIC (Ryerson University), “Kant and the Imagination,” at its partner school in China, SIAS University, beginning in Fall 2017. ARIANA RAGUSA, “Vico’s Fabulous Beginnings: From the Forests Recipients for the 2017 Ronald M. Polansky Graduate 2016. February 3. He has also been serving as an Associate Editor for the APA Blog, in to the Academies” Student Scholarship award include: JESSICA GELBER (University of Pittsburgh), “Two Ways of Being an charge of posts on Diversity and Research and of its ongoing series Director: Dr. Fred Evans Gizem Atalay (Université du Québec à Montréal End: Aristotle and Teleology,” March 31. interviewing recent graduates and young scholars about their work. Colloquium Presentations NALAN SARAC, “A Study on Conscience: The Content and [UQAM]) JEFFREY WILLIAMS (Carnegie Mellon University), “Brave New COLIN BODAYLE, “Plato’s Cosmology: Number and Ratio in the Function” Roly Carspecken (Germany) We welcome any news from alumni! Share your news with the University,” April 28. JEFF LAMBERT (Duquesne University), “The Ethical Questions of Philebus,” April 20. Director: Dr. Ronald Polansky Aaron Higgins-Brake (Germany) Department by contacting [email protected]. The Examined Life Speaker Series 2016–2017 Pornography,” November 18. ROLY CARSPECKEN, “The Illocutionary Dimension of Self- EVAN STREVELL, “Memory, Phantasia, and the Perception of Time: Frank (Trey) Weise (France) SILA OZKARA (Duquesne University) “Beginnings and Ends: TRISTANA MARTIN-RUBIO (Duquesne University), “The Places Consciousness,” April 7. a Commentary on Aristotle’s De memoria” Any contributions to the Polansky Endowment Fund Director: Dr. Ronald Polansky Foundations of First Philosophy and Death,” October 7. You Will Go: Merleau-Ponty on Life as Adventure,” April 21. ZACH SLANGER, “Transmission, Infection, Contagion: Towards a can be made directly to the department: c/o Chair Events (Duquesne University), “Truth in the Age of New Sexual Ethics,” April 7. JAMES TAYLOR, “Techno-Rascism: Heidegger’s Philosophy of PATRICK LEE MILLER of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Duquesne Philosophy Department Speaker Series 2016-2017 Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race” Trump,” October 28. University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282. GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA (University of Pittsburgh), “Submitting to ANTHONY CELI, “Tradition and World: Understanding Between Director: Dr. George Yancy Time: Historicity and Dystopia in Michel Houellebecq,” September 30. Gadamer and Heidegger,” February 10. continued, see ROLY CARSPECKEN, “Spiritual Autopsy: Hegel and Derrida on the EVENTS Life and Death of Spirit,” February 10. Duquesne Graduate Philosophy News • Spring 2017 duq.edu/philosophy Philosophy Faculty News Graduate News Dr. Kelly Arenson Fr. Brian Cronin Jacob Greenstine and recent Duquesne alumnus Ryan Johnson Dr. Arenson’s paper “Impure Intellectual Pleasure and the Phaedrus” Fr. Cronin has been spending his spare time editing his forthcoming have co-edited a book entitled Contemporary Encounters with was published in Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. book on The Phenomenology of Human Understanding. He has Ancient Metaphysics with Edinburgh University Press. David Also, her paper “Epicureans on Marriage as Sexual Therapy” was been completing final revisions of the text, and correcting the Hoinski, Ph.D. ’14, and Dr. Ronald Polansky contributed chapters to accepted for publication in Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek typescript, proofing, and final design and presentation. Still there the volume. Political Thought. She presented a version of the latter paper to is the task of producing an index. He thinks it should be finished Duquesne’s own philosophy department in December 2016 as part by Christmas or before. The book presents a phenomenological Boram Jeong has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor of its Speaker Series. In addition, Dr. Arenson presented “Epicureans description of the process of human questioning, understanding at the University of Colorado Denver. She will begin her teaching on Non-Cognitive Therapies” at the annual meeting of the Society experience, and sorting out true from false in the area of truth and responsibilities in Fall 2017. for Ancient Greek Philosophy, at Fordham University in October value. Our culture seems to have lost the basic distinction between 2016. She is currently working on articles on Plato’s Timaeus and true and false, genuine and fake, fact and fiction. No contemporary Matt Lovett has renewed his contract as a Visiting Lecturer