Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, gave a talk as part of Colgate University's year-long series on Human Nature and Human Values on April 15. The talk, titled "Knowing Ourselves," addressed issues about the extent to which scientific discussions of free will and irrational choices contribute to self-knowledge and to our knowledge of what it is to be human. More ...

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran gave a paper, "Environmentalism at a Crossroads: Cosmopolitanism vs. Localism?," on April 17 at the SUNY-BROOME conference on Environmental Ethics: The Spaces Between, Contested, and Shared.
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“In what ways is sport valuable?” asked philosopher Scott Kretchmar (rhetorically, of course) to the audience in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium on April 21. The son of a baseball coach at Oberlin, Kretchmar was introduced to sport culture rather early in life. He grew up to be a self-proclaimed jock and even went so far as to major in physical education as an undergraduate. More ...

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, has published a book, Feminist Interpretations of Rorty (Penn State University Press). It is part of a series, “Re-reading the Canon,” which is dedicated to feminist history of philosophy. More ...

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, presented an invited paper at this year's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy held March 11-13 in Charlotte, N.C. The paper, titled "Distinctive Voices, Distinctive Visions and the Development of Critical Consciousness" focused on the ways in which different expressions of voice operate interpersonally and impact the consciousness of subjects. More ...

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was an editor on the latest revision of William Hughes’s Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills. The sixth edition of the book was published in January by Broadview Press. More ...

A. Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, presented a paper at a New York City meeting of the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy on Feb. 21. Franklin’s paper, titled "Black Subjectivity and the Significance of Voice," focused on the role of various expressions of voice in relation to the consciousness and agency of black youth. More ...

Russell Marcus, the Truax Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper titled “The Explanatory Indispensability Argument” on Jan. 17 at the 3rd Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Russell’s paper argues that the new explanatory argument, because of its equivocation between two senses of ‘explanation,' either is unsound, or fails to extend the standard indispensability argument. More ...

Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy, delivered a plenary talk at the first Colombian Conference on Logic, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science in Bogotá, Colombia. In his paper, “Explanation and Indispensability,” he examined a new explanatory indispensability argument. More ...

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran will present a talk titled "Building Better People?: Genetic Engineering and the Roots of Evil" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side in Utica. This is the third event in the 2009-2010 Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side. More ...