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CURRENTLY TEACHING	Office	Box	Phone	Email
Marya Bower	Carpenter 335	61	1438	bowerma
Ferit Güven	Carpenter 328	168	1399	guvenfe
Kevin Miles, Convenor	Carpenter 325A	84	1684	mileske
Charles Watson	Bolling Center 203	103	1539	watsoch
Dee Airgood, Secretary	Carpenter 325B	64	1422	airgode
OTHER FACULTY			Phone	Email
Len Clark, Emeritus	——	——	——	lenclark
Bob Horn, Emeritus	——	——	962-9478	——
John Newman	——	——	——	johnn
Howard Richards, Emeritus	——	——	——	howardri
Peter Suber, Senior Research Professor	——	——	——	peters
Liffey Thorpe, Senior Faculty Fellow	——	——	——	liffeyt

For more information about one of us, scroll down or click on a name.

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To send email to all Earlham philosophers (who have email), send to philo@earlham.edu.

To send email to the subset of Earlham philosophers who attend department meetings, plus the PSI representatives to the department meetings, send to philo2@earlham.edu.

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Dee Airgood, Secretary

Phone ext. 1422, Box 64, Office Carpenter 325-B, Email airgode. Send email to Dee. Dee works from 8:00 a.m. to noon. To reach her at other times, use voicemail or email. Also the secretary for the Religion Department.

CURRENTLY TEACHING

Marya Bower

Phone ext. 1438, Box 61, Office Carpenter 335, Email bowerma. Send email to Marya. Office Hours: I will be glad to set up an appointment in order to discuss whatever is on your mind. I am on campus from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. almost every weekday, so we should be able to find a time to meet. Please feel free to call me at home (939-1998) if you are unable to find me in my office. There is voice mail on my home phone; if I am not there, leave a message with your phone number and I will call you back. (Unless it is an emergency, please do not call me at home after 9:00 p.m.) I also am on e-mail and I check my messages regularly. Education: B.A. Xavier University, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame. Also teaches in Women's Studies, and cross lists courses in HDSR, PAGS, Fine Arts, and Math / Computer Science. Teaching and research interests: Aesthetics; Contemporary Social and Political Theory, esp. discussions concerning the resources needed for the development of community; Epistemology; Ethics; Feminist Philosophy and Feminist Theory; Hermeneutics and Phenomenology; History of Philosophy; Interdisciplinary studies, esp. the interplay between the humanities and the social sciences; and the dialogue and tension between Twentieth Century Continental and Analytic Philosophy.  Faculty Advisor for Action Against Rape (AAR), Sexual Assault Survivor Advocates, the Womyn’s Center, and the Co-op Hall. Campus Ministry Associate and a confidential resource and listener for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, harassment, and any other form of sexual violence. Member, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). Member, Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Member, American Philosophy Association (APA). Associated with Friends Association for Higher Education. [Link this: http://www.earlham.edu/~fahe/]

Ferit Güven

Phone ext. 1399, Box 168, Office Carpenter 328, Email guvenfe. Send email to Ferit. Office hours: By appointment Also teaches Peace and Global Studies, Film Studies Education: B.A. Bosphorus University (Istanbul, Türkiye), M.A., Ph.D. from DePaul University. Teaching and research interests:  Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Postcolonial Theory. For more, see Ferit's home page.

Kevin Miles, Convenor

Phone ext. 1684, Box 84, Office Carpenter 325A, Email mileske. Send email to Kevin. Office hours: Check with the Philosophy Department Also teaches African and African American Studies (AAAS), Film Studies and Interpretive Practices. Education: M.A. from Villanova University, Ph.D. from DePaul University. Teaching and research interests:  W.E.B. Du Bois, Philosophy of Race, African American Philosophy, Social and Political philosophy, and Ancient Greek Philosophy . For more, see Kevin's home page.

Charles Watson

Phone ext. 1539, Box 103, Office LBC 203, Email watsoch. Send email to Charles. Office hours: Check with Social Science Office Also teaches AAAS, HDSR, Interpretive Practices Education: M.A., Ph.D. from Stanford University. Teaching and research interests: Existentialism, Social and Political Philosophy, African-American Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, American Philosophy, History of Western Ideas.

OTHER FACULTY

Len Clark, Emeritus

Send email to Len. Education: B.A. Wabash College, M.A., Ph.D. Yale University. Former Academic Dean and Provost of Earlham College. Teaching and research interests: Philosophy of Science, Contemporary Ethics, 18th and 19th Century Philosophy, and Liberal Education. Most recent thinking and writing has been on contemporary problems of individualism and community, and the contribution philosophy can make in dealing with them.

 

Bob Horn, Emeritus

Education: B.A. Earlham College, Th.D. Union Theological Seminary. Home phone 962-9478. Please don't call before 9:00 am or after 9:00 pm. Emeritus, retired June 1995.

John Newman

Phone ext. 1343, Box 121, Office Carpenter 333, Email johnn. Send email to John. Education: B.A. Carleton College, M.Div. Union Theological Seminary, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University. Also teaches Religion.

Howard Richards, Emeritus

Email howardri. Send email to Howard at his Earlham address. Education: B.A., J.D. Stanford University, M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, A.C.E. Oxford University. Emeritus, retired January 2003.  Teaching and research interests: Author of ongoing series, Letters from Quebec, published by Catholic Scholars Press; philosophy of peace and justice, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, philosophy of education, philosophical aspects of bankruptcy law, grassroots development, evaluation of programs and projects. Howard's office address is Crane & Richards, 827 State Street, Suite 28, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, 805-966-3627; home phone 805-967-6900; email howardri@aol.com. Send email to Howard at his off-campus address. For more, see Howard's home page.

Peter Suber

Senior Research Professor Email peters. Send email to Peter. Education: B.A. Earlham College, M.A., Ph.D., J.D. Northwestern University. Teaching and research interests: The history of modern European philosophy, roughly from Montaigne to Nietzsche; Kant, Hegel and the German romantic generation of philosophers and writers; the history of western skepticism and related issues from Sextus Empiricus to the 20th century; epistemological issues related to skepticism, such as fictionalism, ideology, self-deception, and the ethics of belief; metaphilosophy; the logical and epistemological problems of self-reference; the metatheory of first-order logic; the ethics of liberty, paternalism, consent, and coercion; criminal law and tort law; the law and ethics of responsibility and excuse; and the philosophy of law.  General Editor of Hippias, the limited-area search engine for philosophy. Co-Editor of Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line. Member of the Board of Governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication Member of the Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. For more, see Peter's home page.

Liffey Thorpe

Senior Faculty Fellow  Email liffeyt. Send email to Liffey. Education: B.A., Ph.D. Stanford University. Teaching and research interests: Greek and Latin languages; ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato; Homeric literature; Sappho; women in Greek antiquity. Past President, Indiana Classics Conference. For more, see Liffey's home page.

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