Nova PhDs

Glad to share this news with you all. Matt Groe is officially ABD. He defended his proposal yesterday — June 21st — the first day of summer! — and here is the title of his forthcoming magnum opus:

“Ethical Coexistence Beyond Dualism: The Converging Visions of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty”

Dr. Busch is the director; Dr. Betz and Dr. Margolis are readers.

I have asked Matt reply to this post and to share with us a brief synopsis of his work. I think it is wornderul to have a Villanova PhD on MP and Dewey, showing the "convergence" — to use Matt's word — of these two great traditions.

Congratulations, Matt!

i just wanted to share with you all that i just received an email from Sartre Studies International informing me that they have accepted my paper on Les Mots — the revision of the sartre chapter in my diss! they said that it should come out next year (2006), probably in the fall edition.

so i'm pretty excited right now, as this will be my first solo article in print, and it's in a pretty specialized journal!

now, we've talked about this before, but i thought that i would run a question by you guys, since you've all got some things out already. when you get comments for critical revisions, what do you generally do with them? do you attempt to accomodate everything all the reviewers had to say, or what? any feedback here would be helpful.

thanks guys!

Since this fall's SPEP program just came out, I figured I would post all the current and past members of Villanova's PhD program who are participating. First, those who are giving papers (if there is no school listed after their name, they are still affiliated with Villanova):

Thursday, Oct. 20
1:00:
Gregory Hoskins, "Political Membership and the Politics of 'Dangerous Memories'"
Farhang Erfani, American University, “The Agony of Global Democracy: Chantal Mouffe and Paul Ricoeur on Cosmopolitan Citizenship”
Theodore D. George, Texas A&M University, “The Worklessness of Literature: Blanchot, Hegel and the Ambiguity of the Written Word”

Friday, Oct. 21
9:00:
Adriel Trott, “Toward a New Metaphysics: Difference in Irigaray’s Reading of Plato’s Cave”
Alexi Kukuljevic, “To Be Done With Finitude”
Eric Butler, “Prime Matter or Void: Heidegger and Badiou on the Grounds of Ontology"

Saturday, Oct. 22
9:00:
J.C. Berendzen, Loyola University, New Orleans, “Enabling Limitations: Rule Following, Creativity, and Morality in von Trier’s The Five Obstructions”
Joshua Delpech-Ramey, “Has Selma Seen It All?: Visibility and Ethics in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark”
12:00
Michael Shaw, Utah Valley State College, “Madness and Politeia: Aesthetic Disruption in Foucault and Plato”
Matthias Fritsch,Concordia University, “Liberalism and Agonistic Democracy"

Note that Greg and Farhang are on the same panel, Eric and Alexi are on the same panel, and Josh and I are on the same panel. All others at the same time are on competing panels.

Also, on the concurrent SPHS program giving a paper at 2:45 on Friday is Jamey Findling, Newman University,“ Gadamer’s Interpretation of the Republic.”

On the program in some other capacity are:
Ammon Allred
Sarah Donovan, Wagner College
Shannon Mussett, Utah Valley State College

Clearly, we will be well represented in Salt Lake City...