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Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran presented “After Descartes: What Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia Shows Us About the Fragility of Knowledge” on March 19 at Hartwick College. She was invited by Hartwick’s chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the International Honor Society in Philosophy.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran organized, chaired and participated in a panel on “Teaching Philosophy in Non-Traditional Settings” at the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA). The 111th annual Eastern Division meeting was held Dec. 27-30 in Philadelphia.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran has been appointed to the American Philosophical Association’s (APA)  Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, beginning on July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2016.

Students in Professor Katheryn Doran’s  Philosophy 235 (Environmental Ethics) class visited the Madison County landfill on April 6. Doran said the class had the opportunity to see firsthand both the challenges of figuring out where and how to get rid of the staggering amount and variety of garbage  Americans cast off weekly. 

World hunger is a pressing issue, yet its causes aren’t fully known and there is much debate about what responsibilities developed countries should have in ending it. Daniel Knishkowy ’13, a recipient of a 2011 Emerson Summer Grant, will explore the issue of world hunger with Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran for their project, “World Hunger: The Debate About its Causes and the Scope of Our Ethical Responsibilities.”

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran  gave a paper on Nov. 5 at the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies Conference on the Environment: The Good Life—Imagining Alternative Futures.  Her paper was titled Cosmopolitanism or Localism?

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.