Rethinking the “History of Philosophy” Course
Alison Peterman is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester, where she also serves as faculty advisor to the Rochester Education Justice Initiative, a program for incarcerated students. Her research focuses on Margaret Cavendish, Mary Shepherd, Baruch Spinoza, Isaac Newton, and other early modern thinkers on issues of natural philosophy and the philosophy of cognition. She is currently preparing a book on Cavendish for the Routledge Philosophers series.
Philosophy and the Good Life
Meghan Sullivan (invited for 2023) is Wilsey Family College Professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study. Her research focuses on philosophical problems concerning time, modality, rational
planning, value theory, and religious belief (and sometimes all five at
once). She is author of
Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence (2018) and
God and the Good Life with Paul Blaschko (2022).
Minds and Machines
Eric Swanson is professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he teaches the popular “Minds and Machines” course, and faculty affiliate at the university’s Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science. He has written widely on the interfaces between language and epistemology, language and metaphysics, and language and ethics.
Narratives of Freedom and Justice
Ronald R. Sundstrom is professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, where he also teaches in the African American Studies program and the Honors College. His research embraces philosophy of race, mixed-race identity and politics, political and social philosophy, justice and ethics in urban policy, and African American and Asian American philosophy. He is the author of
The Browning of America and The Evasion of Social Justice (2008) and
Just Shelter: Integration, Gentrification, and Racial Equality (forthcoming).
Argument Mapping in the Philosophy Classroom
Mara Harrell is teaching professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego. She specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, epistemology, and the use of technology to teach philosophy. She is the author of
What Is the Argument? An Introduction to Philosophical Argument and Analysis (2016) and received the 2018 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching, presented jointly by the three leading national philosophy associations.
Building a Vibrant Philosophy Program
John Rudisill, associate professor of philosophy and former department chair, and
Elizabeth Schiltz, Raju Chair of East-West Philosophy, The College of Wooster. Rudisill is author of "The Transition From Studying Philosophy to Doing Philosophy," which provided a blueprint for transforming the philosophy curriculum and pedagogy at Wooster.