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1 Vol. 3 Issue 7, April 2014 FORDHAM PHILOSOPHY NEWS Brian Henning (Fordham alumnus, 2003) and David Kovacs (current doctoral candidate) co-edited Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society, now available through Rodopi Press. Kovacs co- wrote the introduction with Henning and wrote biographies for the deceased authors included in each chapter. ***** This publication is a Fordham notable, for in addition to being edited by a current Fordham doctoral candidate and a Fordham alumnus, it includes an entry by deceased faculty member Norris Clarke, who taught at Fordham until his death in 2008. It also includes contributions by two former members of the Fordham Faculty: Robert Neville and Vincent Colapietro. See: http://www.amazon.com/Being-America-Metaphysical-Society- Inquiry/dp/9042038284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395249801&sr=8- 1&keywords=kovacs+being+in+america A Fordham Notable Publication Nathan Ballantyne's essay, "Counterfactual Philosophers," appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (88:2): 368–387. William Jaworski published ‘Hylomorphism and the Metaphysics of Structure’ in Res Philosophica 91(2014): 1-23. Babette Babich published “Truth Untrembling Heart” in Michael Marder and Santiago Zabala, ed., Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 154-176. Faculty Publications

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Vol. 3 Issue 7, April 2014

FORDHAM PHILOSOPHY NEWS

Brian Henning (Fordham alumnus, 2003) and David Kovacs (current doctoral candidate) co-edited Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society, now available through Rodopi Press. Kovacs co-wrote the introduction with Henning and wrote biographies for the deceased authors included in each chapter.

***** This publication is a Fordham notable, for in addition to being edited by a current Fordham doctoral candidate and a Fordham alumnus, it includes an entry by deceased faculty member Norris Clarke, who taught at Fordham until his death in 2008. It also includes contributions by two former members of the Fordham Faculty: Robert Neville and Vincent Colapietro. See: http://www.amazon.com/Being-America-Metaphysical-Society-Inquiry/dp/9042038284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395249801&sr=8-1&keywords=kovacs+being+in+america

A Fordham Notable Publication

Nathan Ballantyne's essay, "Counterfactual Philosophers," appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (88:2): 368–387.

William Jaworski published ‘Hylomorphism and the Metaphysics of Structure’ in Res Philosophica 91(2014): 1-23.

Babette Babich published “Truth Untrembling Heart” in Michael Marder and Santiago Zabala, ed., Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 154-176.

Faculty Publications

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Giorgio Pini presented “Scotus on Non-Mutual Relations” at a conference in honor of Professor Marilyn McCord Adams at Georgetown University on March 14, 2014.

Shiloh Whitney presented "Abjection as Ambivalent Affect: The Powers of Horror and the Advent of the Body Proper" at the Kristeva Circle hosted by Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN on March 28, 2014.

Gerard Vong gave an invited presentation at the University of Melbourne Philosophy Department Staff Seminar entitled “Chancy Goods and Well-Being Pluralism” on March 27, 2014.

Reed Winegar presented a paper titled "Distinctness and Spontaneity: Kant and Baumgarten on Intuitive Understanding" at the conference "Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics: Sources, Interpretation, and Influence" at LaSalle University in Philadelphia on March 29, 2014.

Brian Johnson presented his database work on Hellenistic philosophy at the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities conference in Boston, MA on March 28, 2014.

Michael Baur presented an invited paper titled “The Identity of the Knower and the Known in Aristotle, Hegel, and Us" at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA, on March 21, 2014.

Samir Haddad responded to papers by Penelope Deutscher and Catherine Mills for the panel "The Politics of Reproduction" at the APA Central Division Meeting in Chicago on March 1, 2014.

Father Joseph Koterski SJ gave the following series of talks: “Conscience: Its Nature and Its Importance” for the Faculty Day at Cardinal Spellman High School, Bronx, NY on March 14, 2014; “Explaining Free Choice of the Will through Poetic Craft and Philosophical Precision: Dante’s Purgatorio XVI-XIX” for Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH on March 18, 2014; “W.N. Clarke and the Creative Retrieval of Aquinas and Thomism: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence” for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA on March 25, 2014; “Understanding the Concept of Nature in Classical and Contemporary Forms of Natural Law Theory” for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA on March 26, 2014; and “Thinking with the Mind of the Church: Reflections on Pope Francis” for Nassau Community College on March 29, 2014.

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei gave an invited lecture on March 13, 2014 at Harvard University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, entitled 'Imaginative Envisioning: Challenges in Rilke and Kafka.' She was also an invited panelist at the conference on 'Tragedy in German Literature, Art, and Thought' at the Goethe Institut, Boston and Brandeis University from March 12-14, 2014.

Babette Babich was invited to give the David and Anne Ringelheim Ethics Lecture at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. She delivered "Towards an Ethics of Assistance: Heidegger and Care" on March 29, 2014 and a second talk the following day specifically for the students, "Nietzsche's Greatest Weight: Thinking the The Eternal Return."

Faculty Presentations

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Ken Bergman (FCRH 2010) was accepted with a full scholarship into the PhD program in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Gary Gabor (2011) published "When Should a Philosopher Consult Divination? Epictetus and Simplicius on Fate and What Is Up to Us," in P. D'Hoine and G. Van Riel, eds., Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought, Leuven University Press: 2014, p. 325-340. See: http://garygabor.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/gabor-when-should-a-philosopher-consult-divination.pdf

David Storey (2011) gave an invited conference presentation titled "Beyond the Ivory Tower" at the 9th Annual Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, March 21, 2014.

Dylan Futter (2010) edited a special volume of Philosophical Papers entitled “Philosophy’s Therapeutic Potential,” 2004, Volume 43, no. 1. He also published an introduction to this special edition, pp. 1-6: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Tn3KUgnabaC6DKIKcazV/full

Anne Ozar (2008) was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associated by Creighton University

James Jacobs (2002) published “The Practice of Religion in Post-Secular Society” in International Philosophical Quarterly 54.1 (March 2014), 5-23.

Alumni News

Thomas Kiefer presented a paper at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) in Denver on March 7,

2014 entitled "William James, Hilary Putnam, and Richard J. Bernstein on the Pragmatic Importance of Temperament and Values."

Turner Nevitt published "Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Intermittent Existence in Aquinas," History of Philosophy Quarterly 31, no. 1 (2014): 1–19. He also spent a week at the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, attending an Aquinas seminar and the annual Aquinas colloquium titled "Aquinas Reading... Plato, Aristotle, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Gazali."

Graduate Student News