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Lumen Prize Info Session- Feb. 18

cahilla — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:50:00 +0000

On February 18, from 4:15-5:30 pm in Koury 208, Dr. Ann J. Cahill will hold an information session on the Lumen Prize, particularly geared toward those students (and their mentors) who are considering applying for the Prize this spring. The Lumen Prize is a program designed to support and nurture excellent emerging undergraduate scholars. It comes with a $15,000 award that can be used toward tuition and various expenses associated with the Scholar’s research and intellectual development.

The application deadline for the Lumen Prize this year is Wednesday, March 19, at noon. More information about the application, including eligibility requirements, can be found here:

Students who have already been working on applications are encouraged to check out the most recent version of the forms, as some mistakes have been fixed in recent weeks.

Ann Cahill interviewed by 3:AM Magazine

cahilla — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:05:00 +0000

The interview, titled “Carnal Ethics,” describes Cahill’s philosophical approach, her work in progress and her perceptions of racism and sexism in the discipline of philosophy. The interviewer describes Cahill as a “funky feminist po-mo philosophical fabadabadoo,” which Cahill interprets as a compliment.

Celina Bragagnolo earns Ph.D.

cahilla — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Dr. Bragagnolo’s dissertation, “”Legitimacy and Legality: Carl Schmitt and the Dialectic of Modernity” was accepted without revision. The philosophy department congratulates her on this impressive achievement!

Ann Cahill publishes book about objectification

cahilla — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:02:00 +0000

From the publisher’s description (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415882880/):

“Objectification is a foundational concept in feminist theory, used to analyze such disparate social phenomena as sex work, representation of women’s bodies, and sexual harassment. However, there has been an increasing trend among scholars of rejecting and re-evaluating the philosophical assumptions which underpin it. In this work, Cahill suggests an abandonment of the notion of objectification, on the basis of its dependence on a Kantian ideal of personhood. Such an ideal fails to recognize sufficiently the role the body plays in personhood, and thus results in an implicit vilification of the body and sexuality. The problem with the phenomena associated with objectification is not that they render women objects, and therefore not-persons, but rather that they construct feminine subjectivity and sexuality as wholly derivative of masculine subjectivity and sexuality. Women, in other words, are not objectified as much as they are derivatized, turned into a mere reflection or projection of the other. Cahill argues for an ethics of materiality based upon a recognition of difference, thus working toward an ethics of sexuality that is decidedly and simultaneously incarnate and intersubjective.”

Cahill’s invocation posted on PBK site

cahilla — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:35:00 +0000

Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Ann Cahill, and Martin Fowler present at international workshop with Elon junior

cahilla — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:13:00 +0000

Bloch-Schulman, Cahill and Castor collaborated on a presentation about an innovative approach to teaching critical thinking, the Step-By-Step method, while Fowler presented material from his book The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking.

Bloch-Schulman and Castor also presented on “teaching democratic thinking” with Donna Engelmann of Alverno College. Their presentation emerged from their work in the Elon Research Seminar on Engaged Undergraduate Learning, a two-year national teaching and learning seminar focused on teaching democratic thinking co-sponsored by Elon’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

In addition, Bloch-Schulman co-facilitated the seminar on teaching and learning co-sponsored by the AAPT and the American Philosophical Association.

Ann Cahill publishes “Getting to My Fighting Weight”

cahilla — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Ann J. Cahill published a piece titled “Getting to My Fighting Weight” in the latest issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (vol. 25, Issue 2).

Ann Cahill publishes article in Philosophical Papers

cahilla — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Ann Cahill recently published an article titled “In Defense of Self-Defense” in a special issue of Philosophical Papers devoted to the theme of “Rape and Its Meanings.”

Anthony Weston publishes new book on eco-philosophy

cahilla — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:45:00 +0000

Anthony Weston, a professor of philosophy, has published a new collection of essays in environmental philosophy. The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher: Essays from the Edges of Environmental Ethics “presents his pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis. It is a philosopher’s invitation to environmental ethics in an unexpectedly inviting and down-to-earth key.”

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher is a volume in SUNY Press’ series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, edited by J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren.

Philosophy Department to hold Working Seminar

cahilla — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:56:00 +0000

The Philosophy Department of 51�� will host the Second Annual Working Seminar on Philosophy as Transformative Practice in March 2007. The first Working Seminar, held in October 2005, attracted participants from across the country (and even one from the United Kingdom!). This year’s event will focus even more specifically on the philosophical meanings of transformation and concrete ways of engaging with those meanings, both within and outside of the classroom.

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