Faculty Research & Outreach

Faculty Research & Outreach, by Faculty Member

Publications:

  • “Inaugural Editorial,” JPhilo (Journal of General Philosophy) 1 (1), March 2014, 1. (also available on-line www.globalstf.org/publications/jphilo/index.php)
  • “Ethics and Genomics,” in American Museum of Natural History, Seminars on Science: Genetics, Genomics, Genethics, on-line, 2014.
  • “Thinking Ethically,” in American Museum of Natural History, Genetics and Society, on-line, 2014

Presentations:

  • 3 presentations at National conferences in Philosophy of Medicine

More about Mary Ann Cutter

Refereed Articles:

Presentations:

  • “Political Protests, Philosophers, and Perfectionism”
    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), August 2019
  • “Protest and Revolution: Drawing Difficult Lines”
    • International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) Annual Conference, June 2019
  • “The Line of Neutrality in Refugee Studies”
    • NORA Conference: Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses & Feminist Politics, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, May 2019
  • “Trolley Problems are a Red Herring: Stay Focused on the Politics!”
    • Great Lakes Philosophy Conference, April 2019
  • “Going Beyond the Usual Suspects: Spreading PPE to Small Liberal Arts Colleges”
    • Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) Society Annual Meeting, March 2019
  • “Flight and Asylum: The Risks Refugees Take, and the Risks of Taking Them In”
    • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 28th Annual Conference, March 2019
  • “Fighting Organized Crime: Military Conflict or Domestic Dispute?”
    • Eastern APA, Concerned Philosophers for Peace Group Session, January 2019
    • Invited Talk, Center for Values and Social Policy, CU-Boulder, October 2018
  • “Wealth, Violence, and (In)Justice: Refugees, Robin Hood, and Resistance”
    • Invited Talk, Colorado College, April 2019
    • Invited Talk, St. Mary's College of Maryland, November 2018
    • Concerned Philosophers for Peace, 31st Annual Conference, October 2018
  • “Sending Them to Their Deaths: National Borders and the Principle of Non-Refoulement”
    • Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), August 2018

Authored and Edited Books:

  • Deleuze, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, The Logics and Pragmatics of Affect, Perception, and Creation. Monograph,forthcoming, Indiana University Press, 2020.>
  • Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains,edited collection with Eftechios Pirovolakis, Routledge Press, 2019.
  • Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Co-Editor with Helen Fielding. Indiana University Press, 2017.

Papers in Reviewed Edited Collections:

  • “The Refrain,” Introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains,London: Routledge Press, 2019.
  • “Try Madness, Creation and the Crystalline Brain,” in Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains,London: Routledge Press, 2019.
  • “What is an Imperative?” in Itinerant Philosophy, On Alphonso Lingis, Bobby George and Tom Sparrow (eds.), Brooklyn New York: Punctum Books, 2014.
  • “Birth in Beauty and the Power of Sensation, Francis Bacon and Sally Mann, in Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts, Antonio Calcagno, Jim Vernon and Steve G. Lofts (eds.), London and NewYork: Roman and Littlefield, 2014.

Papers in Refereed Journals:

  • “Serious Fun? Deleuze’s Treatise on Nomadology,” PhanEx, Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol 12, No 1.(2017). https://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/issue/view/468
  • “Are We All Cyborgs Now? Structure, Vital Form and the Cyborg,” in Merleau-Ponty, Tomorrow,  Chiasmi International, Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty, No. 18, 2017: 183-196.

Encyclopedia Articles:

  • “Luce Irigaray,” in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, Jeffrey di Leo, ed. Bloomsbury Press, 2018.
  • "Gilles Deleuze," Revised and Expanded in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge Press, 2017. 

Keynotes, Plenaries, Symposia: 

  • “From Chaos to Complexity, Bergson, Deleuze, and Peirce,” Memphis University, Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, March 2019.
  • “The Logic and Pragmatics of Affect, Phenomenology and Creation,” Research Scholar’s Session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Penn State University, October 2018.
  • “Is There a Feminist Continental Philosophy of Science?” Symposium for Women in Philosophy, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, June 2018.

Conference Papers and Participation:

  • “Foreign Bodies, Foreign Minds,” Special Invited session on my book, Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn, (Indiana University Press, 2012), SPEP, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, October 2014.
  • “Sensibility, Intuitionism and the Women of 'Zero Dark Thirty’,” PACT, Pacific Alliance for Continental Thought, Loyola Marymount University, October, 2014.
  • “Irigaray and the Neutral,” Symposium4Phenomenology, Perugia, Italy, July 2014.

Invited Papers and Seminars:

  • “Phenomenology and Mathematics” Workshop, University of Turin, Turn, Italy, February, 2015.
  • “Women in Philosophy, Roundtable” Alvernia College, Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies, March, 2014.
  • “Simone de Beauvoir and the Philosophy of Time,” Alvernia College, Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies, March 2014.
  • “Gilles Deleuze, The Unconscious Between Capitalism and Calculus,” Emory University Graduate Seminar, Department of Philosophy, February, 2014.
  • “The Limits of Materialism for Feminist Phenomenology,” Invited Lecture, Emory University, March 2014.
  • “Gilles Deleuze, The Mathematical Structure of his Thought,” Graduate Center for Advanced Studies, Graduate Seminar, February 2014.
  • “Kant in Contemporary Philosophy,” Graduate Center for Advanced Studies,On-Line Graduate Seminar, January 2014.

More about Dorothea Olkowski

Recent Books:

  • The Quest for Prosperity: Reframing Political Economy. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
  • Democratic Problem-Solving: Dialogues in Social Epistemology (with Justin Cruickshank). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
  • Compromising the Ideals of Science. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • The Price of Public Intellectuals. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  • Religion and Sports in American Culture (with Jeff Scholes). London and New York: Routledge, 2014

Recent Essays, Articles and Book Chapters:

  • “Post-Truths and Inconvenient Facts.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 47-60.
  • “Postmodern Relativism as Enlightened Pluralism,” in The Impact of Relativism: Challenges for Democracy, Law, Science and Religion, edited by Steve Fuller, Mikael Stenmark, and Ulf Zackariasson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 35-52.
  • “The Refuge of the Academy: Response to Socrates Tenured,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 48(1): 63-70, 2018.
  • “Causation and Correlation,” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Bryan S. Turner, 2017, pp. 1-4.
  • “Materialism,” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Bryan S. Turner, 2017, pp. 111-3.
  • “Revisiting Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century,” In Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg, edited by Darrell Arnold and Andreas Michel. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2017; pp. 241-262.
  • “Capitalism at a Crossroad,” Chapter 35 in Encouraging Openness: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, edited by Nimrod Bar-Am and Stefano Gattei. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017; pp. 439-453.
  • “The Problem of Demarcation Isn’t Going Away: On the Legitimation of the Social Sciences in Light of Popper, Cruickshank, and Reed” (with Seif Jensen), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 5, No. 2, (2016):69-84.
  • “Beyond Hubris: Desiderata of the Future of Political Economy,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, No. 7 (2015): 28-50.
  • “Religion and Science from a Postsecular Perspective” (with Jeff Scholes), Journal of Religion and Culture Volume 17 (2015): 1-14.
  • ”Beyond Lamentations: Comments on Justin Cruickshank’s Public Intellectuals, Education and the Need for Dissatisfaction.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective3, no. 7 (2014): 50-54
  • ”A Bridge over Turbulent Waters: A Reply to Justin Cruickshank on Comparing Popper and Rorty,”Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 3 (2014): 57-59
  • ”The Price of Public Intellectuals,” Impact of Social Sciences Blog, London School of Economics, April 2014.
  • ”Problem-Solving Critical Contingencies: Popper and Rorty According to Cruickshank,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 6 (2014): 30-32
  • ”Systems Heuristics and Digital Culture,” with Nimrod Bar-Am, in Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Developments, edited by Darrell Arnold and Robert King. New York: Routledge, 2014

Recent Refereed Presentations:

  • “Between Actors and Chameleons: The Quandaries of Survival,” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM. July 2019.
  • “Scientific Progress,” Political Concepts at Brown—The Science Edition, Providence, RI, December 2018.
  • “Images of Hypocrisy in the Age of Trump,” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM. July 2018.
  • “Larry Heller and His Art of War,” Heller Center, UCCS, November 2017.
  • “On the Claims for Prosperity in the Age of Brexit and Trump,” Society for the Social Study of Science, Boston, MA, September 2017.
  • “Are We All ‘Insane’ in the Age of Trump?” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM. July 2017.
  • “What’s New in Institutional Analysis in the 21st Century: A Report,” Western Social Science Association (AFIT), San Francisco, April 2017.
  • “Academic Freedom: A Brief History,” President’s Teaching Scholars Program, University of Colorado, March 2017.
  • “On Visual Literacy,” School of Visual Arts, New York, October 2016.
  • “Economic Inequality: Science and/or Morality,” Society for the Social Study of Science, Barcelona, Spain. September 2016.
  • “Prosperity for All: Overcoming Frames of Reference in Political Economy,” Eleventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, London, UK. August 2016.
  • “Performative Philosophy,” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM. July 2016.
  • “The Philosopher as Artist: A Hyphenated Life,” Wheaton College, MA, March 2016.
  • “Democracy for Sale: The American Case,” Institute of Philosophy, University of Graz, November 2015.
  • “Health-Care Uncertainty and Moral Responsibility,” School of Medicine, University of Graz, November 2015.
  • “Art is…what Art Does,” School of Visual Arts, New York, October 2015.
  • ”Images of Radical Political Economy,” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM, July 2015.
  • “From Individuals to Institutions: The Moral Dimension of Political Economy,” Western Social Science Association (AFIT), Portland, Oregon, April 2015.
  • “Radical Political Economy: A Report,” Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2015.
  • “Are Scientists Heroes?” Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2014
  • “Religion and Sports: History and Reality in American Culture,” FAR/NCAA, Dallas, TX, September 2014.
  • “Selling Out in American Culture,” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, NM, July 2014

Reviews

  • . “Human Nature in the Post-Truth Age,” review of Maria Kronfeldner’s What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept (2018), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 36-38.
  • “On Political Culpability: the Unconscious?” review of Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Political Self-Deception (2018), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 26-29.
  • “Heidegger and the Sociologists: A Forced Marriage?” review of Jeff Kochan, Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (2017), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 5 (2018): 30-32.
  • “The Opening of the American Mind,” review of Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy (2017), Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 5 (2018): 1-4.
  • Review of Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson’s Economics in the Twenty-First Century (2016). Review of Radical Political Economy Vol. 4 (2017): 1-3.
  • “American Acquiescence: The Disappearance of the Labor Movement,” review of Stanley Aronowitz’s The Death and Life of American Labor (2014) and Steve Fraser’s The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (2015), Radical Philosophy Review Vol. 18, No. 2 (2015): 323-329.
  • Review of Simon Griffiths’ Engaging Enemies: Hayek and the Left (2014), Philosophy of the Social Sciences 45 (4-5), (2015):533-540.
  • Review of Jeremy Rifkin’s The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014), Utopian Studies Vol. 26, No. 1:256-259, 2015.
  • Capital’s Malfunctions in the Twenty-first Century,” review of David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014),” Radical Philosophy Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (2015):179-182.

More about Raphael Sassower

Books:

  • “Sport,” in Companion Volume to Religion and Popular Culture, eds. John C. Lyden and Eric Michael Mazur (New York: Routledge, 2015), 356-377.
  • Religion and Sports in American Culture (with Raphael Sassower). London and New York: Routledge, 2014

Refereed Articles:

  • “Science and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective,” (with Raphael Sassower), Journal of Religion and Society, winter, 2014
  • Sports in Postsecular America: The ‘Tebow Phenomenon’,” in Implicit Religion, vol. 17.1, March, 2014

Book Reviews:

  • Sport and the Christian Religion: A Systematic Review of Literature, Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker, Sport in Society, vol. 18.3, March 2015, 386-389.
  • Sport and the Christian Religion: A Systematic Review of Literature, Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker, Sport in Society, winter 2014

Academic Presentations:

  • “Charity and the Hero-As-Giver,” at Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, CO; March 2014.

Online piece:

Invited talks:

  • “Your Journey: Defining Calling,” Baylor University Student Life Luncheon (taped lecture), October 15, 2015.
  • “Death according to the World Religions,” at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, April 2015.

More about Jeff Scholes

Books:

  • Plato’s Laughter: Socrates as Satyr and Comical Hero. Albany, NY.: SUNY Press, 2017.
  • In Praise of Plato’s Poetic Imagination. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2010.

More about Sonja Tanner

Books:

  • “Nietzsche, Neuroscience, and the Self,” in Nietzsche, Mind, and Nature, edited by Peter Kail and Manuel Dries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp.120-141
  • Nietzsche’s Dynamic Metapsychology: This Uncanny Animal, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
  • Critical Thinking: Formal and Informal Reasoning (with Patrick Yarnell and Lorraine Arangno), Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Collections:

  • “Dynamicism, Radical Enactivism, and Representational Cognitive Processes: The Case of Subitization,” Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming
  • “Angel Cove,” International Society for Literature and the Environment, forthcoming
  • “Hate Speech on Campus: What Public Universities Can and Should Do to Counter Weaponized Intolerance,” Res Publica (February 2019), pp.1-22.
  • “Looking at Rocks Together: Tool production, shared attention, and off-line cognition,” in Squeezing Minds from Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind, edited by Frederick Coolidge and Karenleigh Overmann (Oxford University Press), 2019, pp.59-78.
  • “Naturalism, Perspectivism, and Pessimism: Bernard Williams and Friedrich Nietzsche,” in Nietzsche and the Philosophers, edited by Mark Conard (Routledge, 2017), pp. 231-257.
  • “Nietzsche and the Problem of Consciousness,” in Consciousness and the Great Philosophers, edited by Stephen Leach (Routledge, 2016), pp. 162-171.
  • “Nietzsche, Neuroscience, and the Self,” in Nietzsche, Mind, and Nature, edited by Peter Kail and Manuel Dries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.120-141“Searching for the Neural Realizers of Ownership Unity,” Philosophical Psychology 26: 6 (October 2013): 839-862.
  • “Nietzsche, Neuroscience, and the Self,” in Nietzsche, Mind, and Nature, edited by Peter Kail and Manuel Dries .(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pages to be determined.

Articles in Progress:

  •  “Sustainability and Land Grabs: The Case of Parque Patagonia Nacional in Chile.”

Invited Lectures and Public Presentations:

  • “The Professional Benefits of a Philosophical Training,” Colorado State University, April, 2015
  • “Neuroscience and the Flame of Consciousness,” Library 21C, Colorado Springs, April 2015
  • “Leopold’s Land Ethic and the Intrinsic Value of Nature,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, April 2015
  • “Attention as a Commodity,” Keynote Presentation, INMAX Symposium, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, October, 2014
  • “Operationalizing Consciousness for Archaeological Research,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., December, 2014
  • “Philosophical Training and Professional Success,” What is Liberal Education For? A Conference at St. John’s College on the 50th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Campus, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, October 2014
  • “Representation, Emulation, and the Dynamic Embodied Mind,” Tucson 2014: Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, April, 2014
  • “Aristotle’s Logic and Philosophy of Science,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, September 2014
  • “Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness,” Harvard-Westlake Upper School, Los Angeles, October 2014
  • “Rhetoric and Writing,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, September 2014
  • “The Matrix, Metaphysical Possibility, and Reality,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, September 2014

More about Rex Welshon

Publications:

Critical Thinking Textbook 

  • Critical Thinking: Formal and Informal Reasoning (with Patrick Yarnell and Rex Welshon), Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 8th edition.

Published Articles

  • “Radical Wellness for a Radically Ethical Life,” Culture and the Brain, (Springer Journal of Clinical Psychology), 2017. (peer-reviewed journal)
  • “Pleasure: The Choice of Hercules,” The European Legacy (Taylor and Francis), 2013. (peer-reviewed journal)

More about Lorraine Arangno

Publications:

  • “Finitude/Infinity.” Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Tome III: Envy to Incognito. Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, vol. 15, ed. by Steven M. Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart. Surrey,UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 73-79
  • “Guilt.” Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Tome III: Envy to Incognito. Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, vol. 15, ed. by Steven M. Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 131-35

More about Erik Hanson

Publications:

  • Review of John Heil’s The Universe as We Find It in Review of Metaphysics (2014)

More about Jennifer Jensen

Books:

  • The Eroticization of Distance:  Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Lexington, 2016.
  • Maurice Blanchot and Psychoanalysis, Brill, 2019.

More about Joseph Kuzma

Refereed Articles:

  • "Vygotsky and moral education: A response to and expansion of Tappan." Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (1): 41-50. 2019.
  • "Yu in the Xunzi: toward a precise understanding." Asian Philosophy 28 (2): 157-169. 2018.
  • "Ritual Education and Moral Development: A Comparison of Xunzi and Vygotsky." Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (1): 81-98. 2018.

More about Colin Lewis

Books:

  • Critical Thinking: Formal and Informal Reasoning (with Lorraine Arangno and Rex Welshon), Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.

More about Patrick Yarnell