Katheryn Doran, associate professor of philosophy, studies and teaches courses on the theory of knowledge, American philosophy, contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, and environmental ethics. She has published several papers on the problem of skepticism, and is currently revising a paper she gave at the 10th annual Pesrpectives on Human Evil conference in Salzburg (March 2009) called “Three Secular Arguments Against Germline Genetic Engineering.” She is also working on a paper linked to her Fall 2008 Hamilton semester in New York (Environmentalism in the Global City) called “Environmental Ethics at a Crossroads: Three Central Issues That Divide Us.”
Franklin holds a doctorate from Stanford University. He teaches courses on existentialism, Nietzsche, and critical cultural studies and is a past recipient of the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award. His research focuses on the existential, social, and political implications of various critical and transformative discourses aimed at cultivating individual and collective self-realization. The author of several scholarly works on the social and political import of various forms of existential enlightenment, Franklin is also the co-editor of a volume titled Critical Affinities: Reflections on the Convergence between Nietzsche and African American Thought.
Janack, who received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University, serves as chair of the Philosophy Department. Before coming to Hamilton she was a fellow at the Pembroke Center at Brown University and an assistant professor of philosophy at WPI, an engineering college in Worcester, Ma. She teaches classes in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and feminist philosophy. In 2004 Janack won both the College's Hatch Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Richardson Award for Innovation in Teaching. She is the author of several articles on objectivity and naturalized epistemology, and was the recipient of a major National Science Foundation grant to support her work on a book on the concept of experience in 2008-09. Janack is also the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, published in spring 2010 by Penn State University Press. Her new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Experience, will be published by Stanford University Press in 2012.
David Pereplyotchik earned his bachelor's degree at New York University and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation, The Psychological Import of Syntactic Theory, addressed issues at the interface between philosophy and psycholinguistics—specifically, the metaphysics of linguistic expressions, the methodology of linguistic theory, and the psychological reality of syntactic principles. A former CUNY Writing Fellow, Pereplyotchik has also taught courses in philosophy and psychology at Baruch College, where he recently received a presidential excellence award for outstanding teaching. He has published several articles in philosophy and cognitive science in the peer-reviewed journals Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Consciousness and Cognition, and the Croatian Journal of Philosophy. Pereplyotchik has an active interest in theories of consciousness, mental representation, and linguistic meaning.
Martin Shuster holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a master's from Yale University, and a master's and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in 19th/20th century European philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, and modern Jewish thought, focusing especially on the relationship between post-WW2 philosophers (Adorno, Arendt, Levinas) and German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel). Shuster also has strong interests in aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy of humor.
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Simon holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A past Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, he has also served as president of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport. Simon was also a Fellow at both the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1975-76) at Stanford and the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C. (1981-82). He was the successful coach of the men's varsity golf team at Hamilton from 1986-2000, during which time his teams participated in NCAA championships. Simon is the author of Fair Play, (Westview Press) on sports and social values. He is also author (with Norman E. Bowie) of The Individual and the Political Order and Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, and editor of The Blackwell Guide to Political and Social Philosophy. Simon is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and sits on the editorial board for the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. He was appointed the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy in July 2005.
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In its mission to provide a strong grounding in philosophy for all Hamilton students, the department participates in many of the College's interdisciplinary seminar courses. Examples include Race Matters, which considers the impact of race on culture, community and public policy, and courses on globalization and ethics and on the philosophical and biological idea of normality.
Philosophy professors at Hamilton are among the College's most honored and popular with students and colleagues alike. In recent years, three professors have earned prestigious awards for teaching.
Hamilton philosophy students recently have presented their research at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Dartmouth College and the Colgate University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, where a Hamilton student won the award for best paper.
In its mission to provide a strong grounding in philosophy for all Hamilton students, the department participates in many of the College's interdisciplinary seminar courses. Examples include Race Matters, which considers the impact of race on culture, community and public policy, and courses on globalization and ethics and on the philosophical and biological idea of normality.
Philosophy professors at Hamilton are among the College's most honored and popular with students and colleagues alike. In recent years, three professors have earned prestigious awards for teaching.
Hamilton philosophy students recently have presented their research at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Dartmouth College and the Colgate University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, where a Hamilton student won the award for best paper.
In its mission to provide a strong grounding in philosophy for all Hamilton students, the department participates in many of the College's interdisciplinary seminar courses. Examples include Race Matters, which considers the impact of race on culture, community and public policy, and courses on globalization and ethics and on the philosophical and biological idea of normality.
Philosophy professors at Hamilton are among the College's most honored and popular with students and colleagues alike. In recent years, three professors have earned prestigious awards for teaching.
Hamilton philosophy students recently have presented their research at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Dartmouth College and the Colgate University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, where a Hamilton student won the award for best paper.
