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 Professor GORDON WILSON has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Tulane
and specializes in mediaeval philosophy. He has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow and NEH
Research fellow four times. The general coordinator of the
"Opera Omnia" of Henry of Ghent (Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium, where he has been a "gasthoogleraar"), he has edited important philosophical texts and has authored numerous articles.
In 1993 he was awarded the Warren W. Wooden citation by Villanova University for
his outstanding contributions to medieval scholarship.
Assoc. Professor MELISSA BURCHARD
has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota, with a minor in Feminist Studies through the
Center for Advanced
Feminist Studies there. Her area of focus in teaching and research include
theoretical and applied ethics, social and political philosophy, and feminist
theory. Specific research projects have recently included inquiry into the
ethics of television's programming for children, including representations of
diversity in such programming, inquiry into the meaning of violence and the
connections between violence and rationality, and the use of the concept of
perversion in the construction of identity.
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Professor DUANE DAVIS has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania
State University. Recent publications focus on Maurice
Merleau-Ponty. His areas of specialization focus on ethics;
nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy; and social and
political philosophy. He is currently in
charge of the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society. A full photo is
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Assoc. Professor BRIAN BUTLER, the current
director of religious studies and pre-law advisor at
UNCA, has a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.F.A. in painting from Claremont Graduate University. He also has a J.D. from the
University of Chicago.
The author of numerous articles and reviews, his interests include American
pragmatism, jurisprudence, the philosophical foundations and implications of human rights,
the aesthetics and philosophy of art and sociopolitical philosophy. Current projects are specifically concerned with the connection of pragmatism and, further, of aesthetic factors with the practice and theory of legal
reasoning.
Assoc. Professor Keya
Maitra, has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Connecticut and a second Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Hyderabad in India. She has
specialized in Indian philosophy, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Her book,
On Putnam was published in 2002. Dr. Maitra is a member of the Indian Philosophical Society, the
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, and the Association for Asian
Studies.
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