| Cashen, Matthew | PH 3207 | 650-2206 | mcashen@siue.edu |
| Cataldi, Suzanne, Department Chair | PH 3211 | 650-2184 | scatald@siue.edu |
| Crane, Judith | PH 2218 | 650-3861 | jcrane@siue.edu |
| Darr, Raymond | PH 0205 | 650-3428 | radar@charter.net |
| Fields, Greg | PH 2211 | 650-2461 | gfields@siue.edu |
| Harper, Rhonda, Secretary | PH 3212 | 650-2250 | rharper@siue.edu |
| Larkin, William, Major Advisor | PH 2207 | 650-2643 | wlarkin@siue.edu |
| Littmann, Gregory | PH 3231 | 650-3266 | glittma@siue.edu |
| Louvier, Tom | PH 3305C | 650-2250 | toml@peaknet.net |
| Lueck, Bryan, Minor Advisor | PH 3113 | 650-2096 | blueck@siue.edu |
| Meade, Erik | PH 1216 | 650-2257 | emeade@siue.edu |
| Pearson, Chris | PH 3210 | 650-5337 | chpears@siue.edu |
| Reiheld, Alison | PH 2208 | 650-2754 | areihel@siue.edu |
| Rozelle-Stone, Rebecca | PH 0221 | 650-5190 | arozell@siue.edu |
| Schallert, Ed | PH 2203 | 650-2683 | eschall@siue.edu |
| Schunke, Matthew, Religious Studies Minor Advisor | PH 0228 | 650-5363 | mschunk@siue.edu |
| Simons, Margaret, Emeritus | 650-2250 | msimons@siue.edu | |
| Stone, Lucian | PH 3232 | 650-2246 | lustone@siue.edu |
| Student Desk | PH 3230 | 650-2251 | kborrow@siue.edu, jafeigl@siue.edu |
| Vailati, Ezio | PH 2212 | 650-3376 | evailat at siue.edu |
| Ware, Robert | PH 2219 | 650-2913 | rware@siue.edu |
| Wolf, Robert, Emeritus | PH 0226 | 650-3481 | rwolf@siue.edu |
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Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, room 3207
mcashen@siue.edu / (618) 650-2066
Ph.D. in philosophy, Washington University, 2007.
Teaching interests: ancient Greek and Roman philosophy; medical and biomedical ethics; ethical theory; and the philosophy of love, gender, and friendship. Fall 2008 is Cashen’s first year teaching at SIUE. Previously, he has taught courses in ethics, the history of philosophy, and medical ethics at Washington University and the Washington University School of Medicine.
Research interests: ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Socratic and Aristotelian ethics. Cashen’s doctoral research focuses on the relationship between ancient and contemporary conceptions of well-being and happiness. He has presented his work on this topic at numerous conferences and meetings of the American Philosophical Association. More recently, he is working in applications of Aristotelian ethics to issues in modern medical ethics, and also on a larger project on the role of what the ancients call “external goods,” such as health, wealth, friendship, and political power in Aristotelian and early Socratic ethics.
Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2219
scatald@siue.edu / (618) 650-2184
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1991
Research and teaching interests: contemporary European philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy and philosophy of law. Representative publications include Emotion, Depth and Flesh, A Study of Sensitive Space–Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Embodiment (SUNY Press, 1993); Merleau-Pont and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought, co-edited with William S. Hamrick (SUNY Press, 2007); "Sense and Affectivity in Merleau-Ponty: in Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008); "The Philosopher and Her Shadow: Irigaray’s Reading of Merleau-Ponty,"Philosophy Today, 2004; "Animals and the Concept of Dignity: Critical Reflections on a Circus Performance" Ethics and the Environment, 2002; "Embodying Perceptions of Death" in Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of the Flesh (SUNY Press, 2000); "Sexuality Situated: Beauvoir on 'Frigidity'" in Hypatia, 1999; "Reflections on Male Bashing", National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 1995, and "Women and Welfare: Ethical Aspects of Aid to Families with Dependent Children" Public Affairs Quarterly, 1995.
Associate Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2218
jcrane@siue.edu / (618) 650-3861
Ph.D. Tulane University, 1999
Research and teaching interests: early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and logic. Her dissertation was entitled "Locke, Natural Kinds, and Essentialism". This argues for a Lockean view of natural kinds, which emphasizes the interest- relativity of many purported "natural" kinds. Representative publications include:" Locke's Theory of Classification" British Journal for the History of Philosophy, May 2003; "On the Metaphysics of Species", Philosophy of Science, April 2004; and "Identity and Distinction in Spinoza's Ethics", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, June 2005.
Lecturer
Peck Hall, Room 0224
radar@charter.net / (618) 650-3428
M.A. SIUE , 1984
Ray Darr recently completed an Associates of Technology degree at Vatterott College in Computer Electronics and Networking Technology. Teaching interests include death and dying, critical thinking, and ethics. Research interests Medical Ethics and the Tuskegee Experiment. His graduate work was concentrated in the area of American Philosophy - specifically John Dewey and George Herbert Mead.
Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2211
gfields@siue.edu / (618) 650-2461
Ph.D. in Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii, 1994. Professor.Research interests: Comparative philosophy and religious studies, with specialization in South Asian and American Indian traditions. Teaching focus: Religious Studies, history of Christian thought, cultural and interdisciplinary studies, and critical thinking. Fields’ on-going research efforts concern preservation of native North Pacific Coast songs, oral tradition, and philosophy. He is author of Religious Therapeutics (State University of New York Press, 2001, also published in India by Motilal Banarsidass Press, 2002). His article "Inipi: The Rite of Purification" in The Black Elk Reader (Syracuse University Press, 2000) addresses contentious issues concerning text, traditionalism, and religious syncretism. Fields has presented research at the East-West Center in Honolulu, International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Calcutta, India. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of New Mexico and an M.A. in Philosophy of Education from the Dewey-influenced Goddard College. Several of his publications apply a philosophy of health and wholeness in domains such as education in civil society, e.g., “Gandhi and Dewey on Education for Peace” in Problems for Democracy (Rodopi Press, 2006). Fields is chair of the WoRKS Group, Edwardsville (World Religions, Knowledge, and Science), a series of distinguished speakers and dialogues supported by a grant from the METANEXUS INSTITUTE. Fields was the founding coordinator of SIUE’s Minor in Religious Studies, and is a founder of Friends of the Religious Center at SIUE, dedicated to developing the geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller as a center of intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and fellowship.
Secretary
Peck Hall, Room 3212
rharper@siue.edu / (618) 650-2250
Associate Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2207
wlarkin@siue.edu / (618) 650-2643
Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara, 1998
Professor Larkin’s research is primarily focused on two projects in contemporary analytic epistemology: (a) using a certain pragmatic norm of assertion to undermine contextualists, closure-deniers, and skeptics; and (b) analyzing warrant in terms of a particular belief’s cognitive consequences rather than its manner of production. Some publications representative of other ongoing research interests include “Shoemaker on Moore’s Paradox and Self-Knowledge” in Philosophical Studies, and “Persons, Animals, and Bodies” in Southwest Philosophical Review. Additional teaching interests include logic, the history of early analytic philosophy, and interdisciplinary courses on war and peace and global problems. Professor Larkin has a personal homepage. At present, Prof. Larkin is the Major Advisor.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3231
glittma@siue.edu / (618) 650-3266
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004
Critical Thinking coordinator. Areas of particular research interests include the philosophy of logic (especially paradoxes), metaphysics (especially time and natural kinds), and epistemology (especially skepticism). His dissertation was entitled “Defending the Law of Non-Contradiction: A Critique of Dialetheism”. He argues that dialetheism, the theory that there are true contradictions, fails to solve the very paradoxes that motivate its acceptance, as well as generating significantly more new problems. He has published a paper “A Critique of Dialetheism” (with Professor Keith Simmons), in The Law of Non-Contradiction; New Philosophical Essays, edited by Graham Priest, J.C. Beall, and B. Armour-Garb, (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is presently writing a book on the subject of dialetheism.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3213
blueck@siue.edu / (618) 650-2096
Ph.D. - Pennsylvania State University in 2007
Professor Lueck's research focuses on issues in contemporary Continental philosophy, especially as they pertain to ethics. At present, he is particularly interested in rearticulating some of the central concepts of Kantian ethics with reference to the work of such philosophers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy. In addition, Professor Lueck is interested in the various determinations of sense that have been put forward in twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in examining the role that sense plays in constituting our identities and our relations with others.
Instructor
Peck Hall, Room 1216
emeade@siue.edu / (618) 650-2257
M.A. Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Philosophical Interest include a wide range of topics in analytic philosophy especially in epistemology and the philosophy of religion. He wrote his thesis on the topic of Alvin Plantinga and Gettier cases. He is particularly interested in teaching Critical Thinking and Deductive Logic. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3210
chpears@siue.edu / (618) 650- 5337
PhD University of Washington 2007
Assistant Professor specializing in philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy. In addition to these areas, professor Pearson teaches epistemology, bioethics and philosophy of religion. Pearson is also the philosophy minor advisor.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2208
areihel@siue.edu /
TEACHING INTERESTS: applied ethics of any stripe as well as science and technology studies; medical ethics with special attention to interactions between clinical personnel and between the clinic and society; critical thinking and informal logic; medicalization and shifting definitions of disease.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: ethics of memory; ethical implications of medicalization and shifting definitions of disease; global bioethics; ethics of pandemic/epidemic response; developing world bioethics; philosophical analysis of parenting and domestic labor; scientific reasoning, especially refining and teaching science process skills.
OTHER WORK: Professor Reiheld is the co-editor, with her colleague Rory Kraft of York College in Pennsylvania, of the journal Questions: Philosophy With Children. Questions publishes original philosophical work by pre-college students K-12 and is the publication venue for the annual national Philosophy Slam competition. Professor Reiheld has team taught a discussion-based philosophy elective to seventh and eighth graders at Chippewa Middle School in Okemos, Michigan and has also taught philosophy of technology to children ages 7-12 and their grandparents at Michigan State University's summer Grandparents University. She is interested in initiating similar projects in the Edwardsville schools. Professor Reiheld would also like to incorporate discussion of science fiction into her courses on the ethics of technology (medical or otherwise), as classic books such as Brave New World and 1984 and films such as GATTACA demonstrably shape public discourse on medical and information technologies.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 0221
arozell@siue.edu / (618) 650-5190
Ph.D. – Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009
Dr. Rozelle-Stone’s research interests lie in the intersections of ethical theory and religious thought, as well as in feminist philosophy, philosophy of education, and contemporary Continental thought. She has co-edited and contributed to The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (Continuum, 2009). Aside from Weil, Dr. Rozelle-Stone often engages with the thought of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Paulo Freire, and Luce Irigaray, especially in investigating different ideas of interpersonal and civic relationships and how these lend themselves to or disable systems of oppression. In addition, she sometimes returns to the social/political thought of American philosophers like John Dewey and Jane Addams, which helped to constitute her early education in philosophy.
Instructor
Peck Hall, Room 2203
eschall@siue.edu / (618) 650-2683
M.A. SIUE ,1990
Ed's thesis was a translation and commentary of a Latin document attributed by some to Ockham. Research interests include Ockham, Scotus, John of Salisbury, and C.S. Peirce as well. Teaching interests include critical thinking, ethics, symbolic logic, philosophy of human nature, and philosophy of religion. Ed enjoys reading medieval Latin texts.
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall, Room 0228
mschunk@siue.edu/ (618) 650-5363
Ph.D., Rice University, 2009
Professor Schunke comes to the SIUE Philosophy Department after earning his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University. His research focuses on the relationship between philosophy and religion, particularly as it has been dealt with in the philosophical method of phenomenology. He examines the possibility of a phenomenology of religion by engaging both the works of thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion and current debates surrounding the nature of religious experience and the academic study of religion. His latest work, an article entitled “Apophatic Abuse: Misreading Heidegger’s Critique of Ontotheology,” will appear in an upcoming edition of Philosophy Today. His teaching interests included Philosophy of Religion, World Religions, Christian Thought, and Modern Jewish Thought.
2007-08 William and Margaret Going Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3211
msimons@siue.edu / (618)650-2185
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1977
Her research specialization is the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. Her teaching interests include: philosophy of race and racism, feminist philosophy, existentialism, and contemporary Continental philosophy. A founding editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and a former Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Simons has published many articles and given over 100 professional paper presentations, many of which focus on the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. She is the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and editor of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays (Indiana University Press, 2006). She edited Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophical Writings (University of Illinois Press, 2004), the first volume in a seven volume series of Beauvoir’s texts in English translation, co-edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the French Ministry of Culture, and published by the University of Illinois Press. The second volume in the Beauvoir Series, Beauvoir’s Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 1, 1926-27, co-edited by Simons, Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, and Marybeth Timmermann was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2006. She is currently completing the third volume in the Series, Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary, co-edited with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and translated by Anne Deing Cordero.
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Minor Advisor
Peck Hall, Room 3232
lustone@siue.edu / (618) 650-2246
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2005
Dr. Stone’s research interests are in Islamic Philosophy, Sufism, Comparative Mystical Literature, Iranian Intellectual History, Philosophy of Literature and Art, Continental Phenomenology and Theology, and Philosophy of Humor. Dr. Stone co-edited and contributed to: The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later (Continuum, 2009); and The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Library of Living Philosophers Volume XXVIII (Open Court Press, 2001). Other representative publications include: “Blessed Perplexity: The Topos of Hayrat in Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Mantiq al-tayr” in L. Lewisohn and C. Shackle, eds., Farid al-Din ‘Attar and the Persian Sufi Heritage (I.B. Tauris, 2006); “Seyyed Hossein Nasr,” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2005); and a selection of translations of ‘Attar’s Musibatnama (The Book of Afflictions) in SUFI: A Journal of Sufism 74 (Winter 2007). Currently Dr. Stone is researching the role of humor in mystical literatures, composing an introductory book on Farid al-Din ‘Attar, and editing a volume on cosmopolitanism in Iran. Dr. Stone leads a Summer Travel Study Program to Istanbul, Turkey. Also, Dr. Stone is the webmaster for the American Weil Society. Spring 2010 Dr. Stone will offer PHIL 325 ‘Philosophy of Art’.
Student Workers
Peck Hall, Room 3230
(618)650-2251
kborrow@siue.edu
jafeigl@siue.edu
Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2212
evailat@siue.edu / (618) 650-3376
Ph.D. University of California at San Diego, 1985
Teaching and research interests: history of modern philosophy, the history of modern science, and metaphysics. He also has a personal home page. Representative publications include "Leibniz on Reflection and its Natural Veridicality," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1987; "Leibniz on Locke on Weakness of the Will," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1990; with Paolo Mancosu, "Torricelli's Infinitely Long Solid and Its Philosophical Reception in the Seventeenth Century," Isis, 1991; "Clarke's Extended Soul," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1993; and "Leibniz and Clarke on Miracles," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995. In addition, he has authored Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of their Correspondence (Oxford University Press: 1997) and has edited Clarke: A Demonstration of the Nature and Attributes of God (Cambridge University Press:1998). At present Vailati is writing a manuscript on quantum mechanics and philosophy.
Professor
Peck Hall, Room 2208
rware@siue.edu / (618) 650-2913
D. Phil. Oxford University, 1995
Robert Bruce Ware's teaching interests include social and political philosophy, nineteenth century philosophy, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of science. He is the author of Hegel: The Logic of Self-Consciousness and the Legacy of Subjective Freedom (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999). His book titled Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance will be published in 2008. He has published numerous articles on Hegel’s philosophy, and on the politics and religion of the North Caucasus region. He has published in journals including The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, History of Political Thought, The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Central Asian Studies, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Current History, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Global Dialogue, The Review of Higher Education, and The New Review. His articles have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The International Herald Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United Press International, Pravda, The Moscow Times, The St. Petersburg Times, The Russia Journal, The Hindu, Asia Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, The Central Asia Caucasus Analyst, and many others. He has been an invited speaker at meetings, lectures, and seminars worldwide, has testified before US Congressional Committees, and has been an invited speaker at the White House. He has a personal homepage.
Emeritus Professor
Peck Hall, Room 0226
rwolf@siue.edu / (618) 650-3481
Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1970
Teaching interests include critical thinking, ethics, engineering ethics, the full range of the history of philosophy and history of political theory courses, as well as metaphysics, symbolic logic, and philosophy of science. Currently he is working on a series of bibliographies: one, on analytic philosophy of religion 1960-1996, is being published by the Philosophy Documentation Center. A second, an update to his published bibliography on Entailment and Relevant Logics, will be put on line as soon as he figures out how to do it. A third, his big one, is on Logic and Philosophy of Logic, and will not be anywhere near finished for a number of years. He is also a science-fiction fanatic as well as a devotee of historical mysteries. Recent publications include Analytic Philosophy of Religion: A Bibliography From 1940-1995, Philosophy Documentation Center, 1997.