Philosophy Department notes research activity for spring semester 2009

April 17, 2009 -- Members of the Department of English and Philosophy have recently published and presented their work in a variety of journals and fora. In addition, Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer has been selected as a participant in a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar titled "Experimental Philosophy" to be held at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, from June 22-July 17. The recent research activity in the Philosophy Department for this year (2008-09) can be found below.

Dr. Eric Cave’s paper "Unsavory Sexual Seduction" is forthcoming from Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Dr. Eric Cave presented his paper "Two Conceptions of Unsavory Sexual Seduction" at an invited colloquium at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 31, 2008.

Dr. Don Merrell’s paper "Erring on the Side of Life: The Case of Terri Schiavo" is forthcoming from Journal of Medical Ethics.

Dr. Don Merrell’s paper "Ghosts and Ion Counters" was published in Skeptical Inquirer (Vol. 32, No. 6, 2008).

Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer presented her paper "This is Not a Black Woman: On a Pseudo-Metaphysics of Race" at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, Tenn., November 15, 2008.

Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer presented her paper "The Future of Feminism(s): Challenges, Controversies, and Re-Visions" (with Celia Bardwell-Jones, Marjorie Jolles, Amy Story, and Lisa Yount) as part of the keynote panel discussion at Eastern Division Meeting of Society for Women in Philosophy, Cleveland, Ohio, March 28.

Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer will be presenting her paper "Intimate Cruelty: Fighting Word, Agency, and Backdoor Racism" at University of Wisconsin-Barron County, May 6.

Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer has been selected as a participant in a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar titled "Experimental Philosophy" to be held at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, from June 22 - July 17.

Dr. Robert Schroer presented his paper "Mental paint and the forgivable introspective mistake" at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, February 21, 2009.

Dr. Robert Schroer presented his paper "The fringe of consciousness and the introspectible difference between vision and thought" at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, Tenn., November 15, 2008 and at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, Canada, April, 9, 2009.

Dr. Robert Schroer commented on Noel Boyle’s "Jackson’s Modal Intuition" at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, November 15, 2008, Nashville, TN.

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