Faculty

Duane L. Cady, Professor
B.A. 1968, Hamline University, A.M. 1970, Brown University, Ph.D. 1971, Brown University

Office Location:  GLC 2S
Telephone:  651-523-2316
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Interests:
History of Philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, nonviolence

Selected Publications:

Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

 “The Challenge of Peace” in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction, eds. Steven Lee and Sohail Hashmi (New York, NY:Cambridge University Press, 2004). 

“Pacifism,” International Global Studies Encyclopedia, eds. Ivan Mazour, Alexander Chumakov, and William Gay (Moscow, Russia: Raduga, 2003). 

“Hegemony as Violence,” The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi/King Society, Vol. XI, No. 2 (Summer, 2002). 

Humanitarian Intervention, with Robert Phillips (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

 Bringing Peace Home: Feminism, Violence, and Nature, ed. with Karen Warren (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996). 

“The Positive Argument in Plato’s Theaetetus,” in Natural Reason: Essays in Honor of Joseph Norio Uemura, eds. Duane L. Cady and Ronald E. Beanblossom (St. Paul, MN: Hamline University Press, 1992).

 From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989). 

“Individual Fulfillment (not social engineering) in Plato’s Republic,” Idealistic Studies, Vol. XIII, No. 3 (Fall, 1983).

Nancy J. Holland, Professor
B.A. 1969, Stanford University, Ph.D. 1981, University of California Berkeley

Office Location:  GLC 242W
Telephone:  651-523-2376
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Interests:
Contemporary continental philosophy, feminist theory.

Recent Publications:

Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger, co-edited with Patricia Huntington (Penn State Press, 2001)

The Madwoman's Reason: The Concept of the Appropriate in Ethical Thought (Penn State Press, 1998)

Feminist Interpretations of Derrida (Penn State Press, 1997).

Is Women's Philosophy Possible? (Rowman and Littlefield, 1990).

"The Death of the Other/Father:  A Feminist Reading of Derrida's Hauntology", Hypatia, Volume 16, Number 1 (Winter 2001)..

"'With Arms Wide Open': Of Hospitality and the Most Intimate Stranger", forthcoming in Philosophy Today.

"Seeing the Same World Differently: Genre Fiction and 'The Origin of the Work of Art", forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature.

"'Truth as Force': Michel Foucault on Religion, State Power, and the Law", forthcoming in the Hamline University School of Law Journal of Law and Religion.

"Philosophy and the Future of Women's Studies", the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 01, Numer 1 (Fall 2001). (Originally published in The Hamline Review, Volume 24 [Spring 2001].

Samuel Oluoch Imbo, Professor and Hanna Professor of Philosophy
B.A. 1985, University of Nairobi, M.A. 1990, Purdue University, Ph.D. 1995, Purdue University

Office Location:  GLC 137S
Telephone:  651-523-2385
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Interests:
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics and Value Theory, Contemporary African Philosophy, African American Social Thought

1.  "Okot p’Bitek’s Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religions," Chapter 28 (pp. 364 ~ 373) in A Companion to African Philosophy, edited by Kwasi Wiredu. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
2. "Cyberspace: An Effective Virtual Model for Communities," Chapter Four (pp.45~59) in Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace, ed. Alison Bailey and Paula Smithka. New York: Rodopi, 2002.
3. "The Cyberspace Metaphor of Community," in Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. (Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Erasmus University Press, 1997, pp. 136-146.
4. "Villages, Local and Global: Observations on Computer-Mediated and Geographically-Situated Communities," Chapter 16 (pp.303 ~ 322) in Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Philip Alperson. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2002

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Stephen H. Kellert, Professor (Chair)
B.A. 1985, Yale University, M.A. 1989, Northwestern University, Ph.D. 1990, Northwestern University

Office Location:  GLC 3S
Telephone:  651-523-2384
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Interests:
Philosophy of science, epistemology

Selected Publications:

In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems(University of Chicago Press, 1993).

"The Pluralist Stance" with Helen Longino and C. Kenneth Waters, forthcoming in Scientific Pluralism: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 14, S. Kellert, H. Longino, and C. K. Waters, eds

"Disciplinary Pluralism for Science Studies," forthcoming in Scientific Pluralism: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 14, S. Kellert, H. Longino, and C. K. Waters, eds

"The Uses of Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and Antidepressants," Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology (2005)

"Extrascientific Uses of Physics: TheCase of Nonlinear Dynamics and Legal Theory" in Philosophy of Science (2001)

"Never Coming Home: Postivism, Ecology, and Rootlessness" in The Meaning of Being Human (University of Indianapolis Press 1999)

"Chaos Theory" entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998)

"Science and Literature and Philosophy: The Case of Chaos Theory and Deconstruction" in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (1996)

"When is the Economy Not Like the Weather? The Problem of Extending Chaos Theory to the Social Sciences" in Chaos and Society ed. A. Albert (IOS Press, 1995).

"Space and Perception and the Fourth Dimension" Man and World (1994).

Works in Progress:

Borrowed Knowledge: Lessons from the Use and Abuse of Chaos Theory
(forthcoming)

Huston Smith
Professor Emeritus

Degrees:

A. B., 1940 Central College (Fayette, MO)
Ph. D., 1945 University of Chicago

Interests: Philosophy of Religion

Joseph N. Uemura
Professor Emeritus

Degrees:

B.A. 1946, University of Denver
Th.M. 1949, Iliff School of Theology
Ph.D. 1958, Columbia University

Interests: History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion