Philosophy Department News

Will Brown, C'01, received a Watson Fellowship for travel abroad this coming year. He will be visiting monastic communities throughout the world. On his return, he plans to attend seminary.

Amy Knisley, C'87, won this year's teaching award at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire, where she teaches philosophy. As winner of the award, she gave this year's commencement address.

Jim Peterman and Andrew Moser, C'93, have just completed Sewanee Bioethics Research Guide. Constructed primarily to aid students in his Medical Ethics class, Peterman also hopes that it will be useful to medical practitioners who want some guidance on how to do medical ethics research. It can be accessed through the Philosophy Department Resource Page.

Jim Peterman has just completed his yearlong sabbatical. His project was to study Mandarin Chinese in Beijing and classical Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley, and to study in the original Confucius'Analects and Dao de jing. He will be teaching Chinese Philosophy for the second time Easter semester of 2002.

In January (2001) Chris Conn had an article published in Public Affairs Quarterly. The article is entitled "Female Genital Mutilation and the Moral Status of Abortion." Two more articles will appearing in print in the next few months; the first is "Chisholm, Internalism, and Knowing that One Knows," in American Philosophical Quarterly; and the second is "Locke on Natural Kinds and Essential Properties," in The Journal of Philosophical Research.