Philosophy Department Faculty Ronald Begley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A. Haverford College, B.A. Has taught at St. Michael's College for twelve years and is currently the head of the department. Specializes in Ancient Philosophy, the scholastic-humanist debate, Pascal, Newman, and Kierkegaard. Prof. Begley is currently collaborating with Daniel Sheerin (University of Notre Dame) on volume seventy-nine of the COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS, a translation and annotation of two apologiae of Erasmus against the Carthusian monk and Paris theologian, Pierre Cousturier. Recent Publications: 'Metaphor in the APOLOGIA and Newman's Conversion' in Ian Ker ed., NEWMAN AND CONVERSION (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997). John Izzi Ph.D.; Maitrise; Licence es Lettres; University of Paris-Sorbonne B.A. Fordham Joined St. Michael's College Faculty in 1985. Areas of specialization in 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard); Recent French Philosphy(Levinas, Derrida);  Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Meister Eckhart) Currently researching absence and manifestation in recent French thought and Neoplatonism. Recent Publications:   "Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus," International Philosophical Quarterly, March, 1998. and "The Place of Doubt in Kierkegaard," in Analecta Husserlianna: The Passion for Place, ed. A.N. Tymienieka, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.  Peter Tumulty  Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Joined St. Michael's College Faculty in 1974. Areas of Competency:  Ethics, American Philsophy, Wittgenstein, and the 17th-18th Century Philsophy.  (Interest in Social Philsophy and Newman/religious humanism.) Currently researching the various types of preconditions for cognitively significant judgements, especially as they bear upon the formation of the young in a progressively secular and commercial society with disorienting consequences for ever more vulnerable individuals and communities. James G. Case M..A. University of Toronto; Licentiate in Medieval Studies: Pontifical Institute Medieval Studies,Toronto   Michael Sudduth D.Phil. in philosophical theology, University of Oxford, 1996 M.Phil. in philosophical theology, University of Oxford, 1994 BA in philosophy and classics (summa cum laude), Santa Clara University, 1992 Areas of Specialization in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Medieval Philosophy, and Philosophical Theology. Recent Publications:  "Can Religious Unbelief be Proper Function Rational?" Faith and Philosophy, "The Internalist Character and Evidentialist Implications of Plantingian Defeaters," The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , and "Calvin, Plantinga, and the Natural Knowledge of God: A Response to Beversluis" (Faith and Philosophy, January 1998) Carl Zeno M.A. and Ph.D. Marquette University B.A. Saint Michael's College Areas of specialization and research:  Metaphysics, Plato, and Lonergan. Karen Hoffman M.A., Baylor University Ph.D. expected Fall 1999, Saint Louis University Started teaching at St. Michael's College in Fall 1999.  Areas of Specialization:  Ethics, Kierkegaard Currently researching ethics, forgiveness, and moral psychology.

 

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