Norman joined the Hamilton faculty in 1993, after teaching at Purdue University - Calumet for one year, and at Northwestern University from 1988 to 1992.
Norman earned a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
His areas of specialization include the philosophy of science, logic and reasoning, and contemporary (20th century) philosophy.
Norman is currently working on a book, The Decline of Wisdom: The Mismeasure of Reason and Its Legacy of Suspicion. He has written articles for The Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis and Evaluation, History and Theory and Monograph of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and published numerous book reviews.
He has presented papers at the International Society for Universal Dialogue, the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, and the American Philosophical Association.
Norman is a member of the Advisory Council for New Justice, an organization charged with providing dispute resolution service for Madison County and is a volunteer community mediator. He resides in Morrisville.
Penny Yee came to Hamilton College in 1991. Previously she was a research associate in the department of psychology at the University of Washington. Her areas of expertise include selective attention, attending to multiple tasks, language comprehension and social cognition.
She earned a bachelor's degree from Pomona College, and a master's degree and Ph.D. in human experimental psychology from the University of Oregon.
Yee is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, International Society for Women in Cognitive Neuroscience and is an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Experimental Psychology. In 1993 she and Professor Jonathan Vaughan were co-recipients of a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Center for Cognitive Study at Hamilton.
She has published articles in Developmental Psychology, Contemporary Psychology and Cognitive Psychology and presented at the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, the Psychonomic Society and American Psychological Society. She resides in Clinton.
