April 2024
Professor Maurice Hamington appeared on the Careful Thinking Podcast. You can listen to Episode 6: Revolutionary Care - with Maurice Hamington by following the link.
March 2024
Professor Maurice Hamington visited Cal Poly Humboldt during the first week of March to deliver the presentation, "Revolutionary Care and Inclusive Excellent" for their annual Philosophy Forum Address. He also conducted a training on care ethics for the President, Provost, and Vice Provosts of the University. Finally, he conducted an external program review of the Philosophy Department.
On Saturday, March 16, Maurice made a virtual presentation titled, "Revolutionary Care with Maurice Hamington" for San Francisco's Mechanics' Institute's Teacher Tea series. You can watch the presentation by following this link.
On March 20, Maurice presented "Care Ethics: Emergent Normativity for a Process Morality," at the American Philosophical Society Pacific Division Annual Meeting in Portland.
January 2024
Professor Maurice Hamington was interviewed for the Deal With Animals podcast on January 1st, 2024, where he applied care ethics to our relationship with animals and discussed his forthcoming book, Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos. Here is a link to the podcast.
December 2023
Professor Angela Coventry and PSU Philosophy Alumnus Landon Echeverio published "The 'Great Guide' of Human Life: Custom and Habit in Hume's Science of Politics" in Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization 12: 19-31.
August 2023
Professor David Weber visited Nanjing, China for the month, teaching in the Portland Institute-NJUPT summer ACE program for incoming freshmen to Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Their goal was to prepare students in the program to do better in classes taught by PSU faculty, by clearing up misunderstandings regarding group work, assignment deadlines, plagiarism and citing of sources, along with working to improve note-taking skills with respect to written and oral presentation of material, and with verbal English communication skills.
July 2023
Professor Angela Coventry published an edition of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature with Broadview Press.
May 2023
Professor Angela Coventry will be presenting the paper "Spinoza and Hume on Miracles" in a Panel on Naturalism at a Conference in Honor of Don Garrett, New York University, NY, MAy 24th, 2023.
Professor Angela Coventry is participating on a panel titled "So You Want to Write Book (Or Learn How It's Done)" . It will be held on Thursday, May 11th, 2023 at 4 pm in Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 327/8/9.
March 2023
Professor Avram Hiller has published the following articles:
Hiller, Avram (2023). Comment on Gignac and Zajenkowski, "The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data". Intelligence. (Online first at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gg50aSXM2aH4, will be assigned to an issue soon.)
Hiller, Avram and R. Wolfe Randall. 2023. "Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (1): 39-45. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-7wD
January 2023
Congratulations to philosophers Monica Mueller and Alex Sager who have collaborated with colleagues Deborah Arthur and Charles Klein to secure a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to expand the college level course offerings available at Coffee Creek Correctional facility. Professor Mueller is looking forward to teaching Feminist Philosophy during the Winter Term 2024. See the PSU news Release regarding the grant, "Identity, Transformation and Agency: The Humanities Inside Oregon's Only Prison for Women" for more information.
Professor Hamington is presenting the following talks:
January 26th, 2023, University of Manchester, public address: "Care as Process and Moral Progress"
January 27th, 2023, University of Manchester, Care Aesthetics Research Exploration (C.A.R.E.) module "Good Care"
January 31st, 2023, St. Mary's University, London, "Good Care for Unfamiliar Others"
September 2022
Congratulations to Professor Hamington who has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award!
Professor Hamington co-edited with Inge van Nistelrooij and Maureen Sander-Staudt the volume Care, Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions, Peeters Publishers, 2022.
Professor Hiller (with R. Wolfe Randall) published "Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge", Social Epistemology, 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2022.2121621
Professor Gilbert co-edited with Natan Elgabsi the volume Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach, London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Professor Gilbert also published the following articles:
"No History to be Found: Denying Relations in the Name of Realism." Epekeina: International Journal of Ontology History and Critics, vol. 14.1, 2022: 1-22.
"The Problem of Anthropocentrism and the Human Kind of Personhood," Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221110900
"The Same World for All of Us," History and Theory, vol. 61.2, 2022: 352-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12255