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      • 13th Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference
        CSU Pomona hosted the 13th Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference on Saturday November 6th 2010. Complete program

      • Philosophy Talk
        • May 26th, 2010 at 12:30, David Schmitdz will present "What Teachers Owe Students." David Schmidtz, Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. He is also the founding director of Arizona’s Freedom Center.

      • Philosophy Majors on the Dean's List Fall 2010

      • Philosophy Major named Boeing Scholar
        • Philosophy major Brett Dinovo was selected as the College of Arts and Social Science's 2009-2010 Boeing Scholar.  He will work with Dr. Ericka Tucker helping develop the internship component of the proposed course “Global Justice”, which will be taught in the Spring of 2010 as PHL 420 (Philosophical Issues in the Law).  Students in the course will engage in a project-based internship with local organizations that focus on issues of social or global justice.  Brett will help identify local organizations that focus on these areas, develop descriptions of internship projects, and assist students taking the course with their internship projects.  At the end of Spring quarter, Brett will organize a public presentation of students’ final projects.  The CLASS Boeing Scholars Program, started in 2006-2007, comes with a $1,500 award aimed to significantly reduce recipient's need for external employment.  Boeing Scholars are chosen on the basis of academic achievement, a plan for working closely with a faculty mentor, and interest in pursuing graduate studies.

      • New: STS Website
        • The Science, Technology, and Society program (offering both a major and a minor in STS) has a website. The STS program is currently administered by the Philosophy Department, but please refer to the STS website for information about STS at Cal Poly Pomona.

      • Philosophy Majors receive numerous awards in Spring 2009:
        • Graduating senior Ara Astourian received the Julian A. McPhee Honor Award for Student Excellence; this award was presented at the C.L.A.S.S. graduation ceremony June 14.
        • Jennifer Cryer was awarded a Panetta Institute Congressional Internship; this internship involves a Capitol Hill office of a member of the California congressional delegation (both Democratic and Republican members sponsor interns) to work for two and a half months.
        • Stephanie Wetzel was awarded President's Council Scholarships for 2009-2010. The President's Council Scholars program is considered the most prestigious scholarship series at the University. Five other Philosophy Majors have been awarded President's Council Scholarships in the previous four years.
        • Graduating senior Jessica Yeo, along with 34 others, was selected out of a total of 700 applicants--from 250 universities and colleges--to participate in the National Security Analysis Summer Seminar. The Seminar, sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is an intensive two-week residential seminar in Washington DC, in which students interact with front-line analysts working high profile intelligence issues, engage with senior Intelligence Community managers, with senior policymakers and eminent experts, and make site visits to Intelligence Community agencies for in-depth analytic sessions.

      • New tenure-track faculty member in philosophy
        • The department welcomes Ericka Tucker, PhD Emory (defended April 14, 2009) hired for the department's assistant professor position in social and political philosophy, history of philosophy, and/or environmental ethics. Dr. Tucker's area of specialty is Spinoza's social and political philosophy, having just defended a dissertation titled Individuals, Power and Participation: Metaphysics and Politics in Spinoza. One of Dr. Tucker's focuses is the application of social and political philosophy to community needs, including through work in community radio, which she had continued through graduate school.

      • Environmental Sustainability Speaker Series
        • Spring quarter 2009, the Hugh O. La Bounty Chair of Interdisciplinary and Applied Knowledge will sponsor a series of talks which highlights the university's focus on this issue.  The series, Environmental Sustainability and its Challenges features Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil and The End of Food (speaking on April 14), Peter Gleick, an expert on sustainable water use and Director of the Pacific Institute (speaking on April 28), and Dale Jamieson, an expert in ethics and environmental policy and the Director of Environmental Studies at New York University (speaking on May 11).  All talks are scheduled from noon-1:30.  For more information, please visit www.csupomona.edu/~facultycenter/labountychair/. The series marks the initiation of the university's new Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Major and Minor programs, which has just begun to accept students.  STS is an interdisciplinary program of study and research which integrates knowledge in the natural sciences and in technology as well as in the humanities and social sciences. The Philosophy Department is currently administering the STS Major and Minor programs.

      • Recent Faculty Research:
          • “Artificial Kidneys and the Emergence of Bioethics: The History of the ‘Outsiders’ in the Allocation of Hemodialysis,” forthcoming in Social History of Medicine.
          • “Ethics Consultation and Facilitated Consensus,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics vol. 20 (1) 2009: 44-55.
          • “Medical Ethics and Competence for Execution,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics vol. 19 (3) 2008: 268-290.
          • Review of Meyers, A Practical Guide to Clinical Ethics Consulting in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (3) 2008: 347-350.
          • “History of Philosophy of Law,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Ed. (MacMillian Reference; 2005)
          • editor, Philosophical Problems in the Law, Fourth Edition (Belmont:
            Wadsworth Publishing Co.; 2005).

        • Michael Cholbi
        • John Ding
          • "Li Zehou, " Ch. 13 of A Reader in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Edited by Cheng Chung-Ying and Nicholas Bunnin, Global Publishers, in press.
          • “Indian Yoni-Linga and Chinese Yin-Yang: Conceptual Comparisons,” Journal of Philosophy: a Cross-Disciplianry Inquiry,  Winter 2009, Volume 4, No. 8, 20-26.
          • “A Comparison of Dewey’s and Russell’s Influences on China,” Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy,  VI.2. 2007.
          • “A Comparison of Shao Yong’s and Pythagoras’ Numerical Mysticism" Journal of Chinese Philosophy, No. 4, 2005.
          • "The Death of Western Philosophy by Li Ming," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, No. 3，2005.

        • Peter Ross
          • "Perceived Colors and Perceived Locations: A Problem for Color Subjectivism," American Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.
          • "Fitting Color into the Physical World," Philosophical Psychology, 23, 5 (October 2010): 575-599.
          • “Common Sense about Qualities and Senses,” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 138, No. 3 (April 2008):  299-316.
          • "Empirical Constraints on the Problem of Free Will," in Does Consciousness Cause  Behavior? editors Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher, MIT Press, 2006, 125-144.
          • "Sensibility Theory and Conservative Complacency," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 86, 4 (December 2005):  544-555.  Co-authored with Dale Turner.

        • Ericka Tucker
          • "The Fate of Early Modern Metaphysics: A review of Marc Hight’s Idea and Ontology.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, forthcoming: Spring 2010.

        • Dale Turner
          • "Revisiting Deep Disagreement," Informal Logic, 25, 1 (Winter 2005). Co-authored with Larry Wright.
          • "Sensibility Theory and Conservative Complacency," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 86, 4 (December 2005):  544-555.  Co-authored with Peter Ross.

       



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