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FACULTYKatheryn Doran, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy(kdoran@hamilton.edu) 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.” Todd Franklin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy(tfrankli@hamilton.edu) Franklin holds a doctorate from Stanford University and currently serves as chair of the Philosophy Department. 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. Marianne Janack, Ph.D., Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy(mjanack@hamilton.edu) Janack received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. 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 Jjanack 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 the forthcoming volume, Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, which will be published in spring 2010 by Penn State University Press. Russell Marcus, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow(rmarcus1@hamilton.edu) Russell Marcus, visiting assistant professor of philosophy and the first Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow, earned a Ph.D. from City University of New York. His areas of specialization are metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. Marcus has taught at Queens College, Hofstra University and the College of Staten Island.
Robert Simon, Ph.D., Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy(rsimon@hamilton.edu) 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.
Richard Werner, Ph.D., John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy(rwerner@hamilton.edu) Werner teaches courses in ethics, ancient philosophy and social philosophy. His recent research interests center on issues relating to pragmatic pacificism, justification in ethics, and the ethics of killing (e.g. war, abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia). He is the author of articles on ethical realism, pragmatism, just war theory and medical ethics. A past Tennent Caledonian Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, he has also been a recipient of a John Dewey Senior Research Fellowship. Werner received a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and a doctorate from the University of Rochester. He was awarded the Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2006 and the Pentagon Service Award in 2004.
Robert Holmes, Ph.D., McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy(rholmes@hamilton.edu)Robert L. Holmes, McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy, is professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard and doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan, and joined the Rochester faculty in 1962. Holmes is former Truax Professor at Hamilton, and served as Rajiv Gandhi Professor of Peace and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was a Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Peace Institute, Notre Dame, and at the National Humanities Institute, Yale. Holmes is the author of On War and Morality and Basic Moral Philosophy, co-author of Philosophic Inquiry, and co-editor of Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. He is former editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. Back to Philosophy overview. |
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