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  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

    Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published an article, “Whippet Good? William James, Nitrous Oxide, and Igniting the Yes Function,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Psychoactive Drug Use. Yes, the title was inspired by the classic Devo song, “Whip It.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jon Ivan Gill

    Faculty Spotlight: Jon Ivan Gill

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    Jon Ivan Gill (Philosophy) delivered the Powell Lecture in Religious Studies at Elon University on October 28 in Elon, NC. His address focused on exploring hip-hop’s influence and intersections with philosophy, religion, and social justice.

  • Peg O’Connor Named Raymond and Florence Sponberg Endowed Professor of Ethics

    Peg O’Connor Named Raymond and Florence Sponberg Endowed Professor of Ethics

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    We are delighted to announce that Dr. Peg O’Connor, Professor of Philosophy, has been appointed the Raymond and Florence Sponberg Endowed Professor of Ethics. This distinguished chair was established to advance teaching and scholarship in ethics, emphasizing the application of ethical principles to pressing issues across disciplines at the College. It also reflects the values…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published an opinion piece “We Need Federal Cannabis Legislation,” in MinnPost.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) delivered a lecture as part of the Imtiaz Moosa Memorial Philosophy and Ethics Speaker Series at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Her talk was entitled, “Stuck on You: Ethics in the Age of Parasites.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Brown

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    Joshua Brown (Philosophy) and Nathan Wildman (Tilburg University) published a paper “The Necessity of Naturalness,” in the journal Erkenntnis.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke

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    Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) presented an invited session with her collaborator, Cynthia Belliveau of the University of Vermont, at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy conference in Boston. The title of their session was, “The John Dewey Kitchen Institute: Recipes, Problems, Inquiry and Democracy.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Doug Huff

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    Doug Huff (Philosophy, retired) has had his play, Emil’s Enemies, published in a German. The German translation was done by the Dietrich Bonhoeffer scholar Bernd Wannenwetsch. For readers of German, the German title is, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ein Lehrstuck vom Widerstand in zwei Akten.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published a chapter titled, “Substance Use Disorder and Toxic Relationships,” in Toxic Love Disorder: The Psychology of Toxic Relationships, ed. Linda Greyman (Kolkata, India: The Minds Journal).

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published The Sober Philosopher Workbook for Exploring Addiction and Creating Recovery (Wildhouse Publications, 2023). Her essay, “Nothing Says Resentment Like Unfulfilled Expectations,” appears in the May issue of Psychology Today magazine.