Spring 2016 Department of Philosophy Newsletter

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The Lyceum is a Philosophy organization run by students that invites all students and professors to come

together once a week to discuss philosophy and pertinent cultural events in order to further the critical

thinking skills of all its members. The group was founded in 2014 by Stephen Wilke and Andrew Pashea.

They meet every Thursday in the Morris University Center.

2016 39th Fritz Marti Lecture

Dr. Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of

Christian Studies at the University of Virginia

Dr. Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on theology and philosophy, with a focus on phenomenology. His most recent book is titled Kingdoms of God (Indiana University Press). He is the author of The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (University of Chicago Press) and The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology, and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Hart has also edited several volumes, including Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Works (Fordham University Press) and Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (Notre Dame University Press). His teaching interests include modern theology, mysticism, theology and poetry, and Christian theology.

His lecture, “Phenomenology as Hermeneutics," is an attempt to defend Husserl against the argument by Paul Ricoeur that phenomenology is a mode of idealism that needs to be replaced with a supplement of hermeneutics in order to avoid philosophical regression. Reception begins at 4:30. All are welcome to attend.

Date: Friday, March 18th at 5:00 pm

Location: Mississippi-Illinois Room, Morris University center

2016 Regional Ethics Bowl

Over 60 students from 7 high schools attended the 2016 Regional High School Ethics Bowl at SIUE on January 30, 2016. Affiliated with the National High School Ethics Bowl at the Parr Center for Ethics at UNC Chapel Hill, the event was organized by the Lyceum and sponsored by the Philosophy Department and CAS. It was a great success at engaging high school students in ethical reasoning. Triad High School took home the first place trophy, and a spot in the National Ethics Bowl. A close second went to Collinsville High, and Edwardsville High won third place. We hope to see all the schools return in 2017, as well as plenty of new faces.

Congratulations to Our

Graduates!

August 2015

Matthew Daniels

December 2015 Blake Bernard

Zachariah Wheeler Rachel Wurth

May 2016 Emily Baietto

Robert Clinton David Favre III

Steffany Fletcher Corey Huber

Solomon Okoronkwo Michael Osterman

Stephen Wilke

Corey Huber

Robert A. Gray Memorial Award in Philosophy. Selected based on exemplary academic performance in the

Philosophy Department, and on the basis of leadership.

Natalie Meador

Dr. Carol A. Keene Scholarship in Philosophy. Awarded to an outstanding philosophy major in their Junior or

Senior Year.

Alfredo Piña

John Mareing Philosophy Scholarship. Awarded for his paper on the importance of philosophy in and of itself

regardless of separate life ambitions.

Dean Jones

Ben Ober Honors Award in Philosophy. Selected based on outstanding performance in a class in the philosophy

department that separated him from his peers.

Rebecca Krasny

John Rutherford Ott Award. Selected based on outstanding performance in a class in the philosophy department

that separated her from her peers.

Stephen Wilke

Mary A. Maguire Dunnagan Writing Award in History and Philosophy. Awarded for his paper “Aristotelian Usage

of Eudaimonia and Makarion.”

Honors Day Convocation will take Place April 17, 2016, 2-4 pm in the Meridian Ballroom of the MUC.

2016 Honors Day Participants

Philosophy Major Stephen Wilke will present this spring at three peer-reviewed Undergraduate Philosophy Conferences: The Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at UNC Chapel Hill, the 29th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Pacific University, and the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Conference at Illinois State University. His presentation, “Arisotelian Usage of Eudaimonia and Makarion,” was his Senior Assignment project and the paper for which he received the Mary A. Dunnagan Writing Award in History and Philosophy.

Stephen Wilke Presents at

Three Conferences

Thirteen students from Colleges and Universities across the United States presented at the Tenth Annual SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on September 25-26, 2015. Dr. L.A. Paul from UNC Chapel Hill delivered the keynote address on her most recent book, Transformative Experience (Oxford, 2014). Student paper topics ranged from mathematical metaphysics to the ethics of pet adoption. A selection of conference papers will be published in Polymath. Plans are underway for the 11th Annual Undergraduate Conference in fall 2016.

10th Annual Undergraduate

Philosophy Conference 2015 Faculty Publications

Sue Cataldi “Sheltering Spaces, Dynamics of Retreat and Other Hiding Places in Merleau-Ponty’s Thought” Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture Richard Fry “Backwards Explanation and Unification” European J Phil Science “Bayle’s ‘Rorarius”, Leibniz, and Animal Souls,” Lo Sguardo Erik Krag “Coherentism and Belief Fixation” Logos & Episteme Greg Littmann “The Ice King Blues: Free Will, Moral Responsibility and Adventure Time” “Secrets of the Enchiridion: How to be a Hero” Adventure Time and Philosophy “What's Wrong With Being a Vampire?” Dracula and Philosophy “The Ancient Art of Being an Asshole: Homeric Values in Paddy's Pub” It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Philosophy “Friendship, Family and Civic Duty in a Galaxy at War” Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy

“American Machiavelli” House of Cards and Philosophy “Should the Doctor Eat his Companions?” “The Friends of a Time Lord” Doctor Who and Philosophy “Plato’s Chicago: The World of Divergent and the Republic” Divergent and Philosophy “Machiavelli on the Governor” The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy Bryan Lueck “The Terrifying Concupiscence of Belonging: Noise and Evil in the Work of Michel Serres,” Symposium “Moral Dilemma and Moral Sense: A Phenomenological Account” J. Speculative Philosophy “Tact as Ambiguous Imperative: Merleau-Ponty, Kant, and Moral Sense-Bestowal” Epoche “Dignity at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy on the Possibility of Incommensurable Worth,” Semiotics “Dignity at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy on the Possibility of Incommensurable Worth,” Continental Phil Review Review of E. Weber’s Living Together SCTIW Review

Alison Reiheld "Asking Too Much? Civility vs. Pluralism" Phil Topics “In Conversation: Macklin, Reiheld, Bluhm, Callahan, Kissling Discuss the Marlise Munoz Case, Advance Directives, and Pregnant Women” Intl J Feminist Approaches to Bioethics "The Event That Was Nothing: Miscarriage as a Liminal Event” J Social Philosophy "With All Due Caution: Global Anti-obesity Campaigns and the Individualization of Responsibility" Intl J Feminist Approaches to Bioethics "Just Caring for Caregivers: What Society and the State Owe to Those Who Render Care," Feminist Phil Quarterly Chris Pearson & Matthew Schunke “Reduction, Explanation, and the New Science of Religion,” Sophia Matthew Schunke “Revealing Givenness: The Problem of Non-Intuited Phenomena in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology” Studia Phaenomenologica “Meeting Students Where They Are Online, But Leading Them Somewhere More Interesting” College Teaching

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Reiheld on receiving the 2015 University Teaching Distinction Award. The Award was given to Dr. Reiheld based on her engaging and passionate teaching style in which she presents philosophy as a “life skill.” She engages students with a clear, concise delivery style, free of personal opinions and biases, and by connecting with the students’ own life experiences.

Alison Reiheld Receives

Teaching Distinction Award