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“How does meaning work? Towards a Phenomenology of objects, bodies, and other people” A talk by Dr. Peter Costello
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 6 pm Harkins 300
“Celebrating Women Philosophers” Presents:
Film Screening: Hannah Ardent
February 22, 2024 6 pm Ruane LL05
Dedicated professor Dr. Alma Espartinez with her team who won first place in the Providence College Ethic’s Bowl hosted by the School of Business.
Philosophy Study Nights
Every Tuesday Night
6:30 – 8 pm
Siena Lower Level Library
Refreshments to be served
Our dedicated faculty members ready for convocation 2023. Dr. Emann Allebban, Dr. Robert Miner and Dr. Blythe Greene.
This fall, the Philosophy Department welcomes Dr. Elyse Oakley in the role of Assistant Professor. Dr. Oakley’s research specializes in philosophical issues in health and healthcare, with particular emphasis on mental health. I am especially interested in the nature of mental disorders—my work focuses on whether we can provide an account of these disorders that adequately captures both the normative and metaphysical elements central to them. Areas of Concentration: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science
This fall she will be teaching General Ethics.
For the Fall 2023 semester we are welcoming Dr. Justin Caouette as a VAP Faculty member. Dr. Caouette has an active research program in many areas of ethics and applied ethics including: the nature of moral obligation; moral responsibility, the reactive attitudes; agency, punishment, enhancement in sport, psychiatric disorders and agency, achievement, and virtue theory. He also has a long-standing research program in the free will debate where he focuses on the moral ramifications of hard incompatibilism. The working title of the project is ‘Free Will and Why it Matters’. There, he connects various moral concepts to different notions of free will in an effort to uncover which concepts rely on a notion of free will and what that notion amounts to. Roughly, he argues that we would lose quite a bit if it turned out that we do not have free will given the role the concept plays in understanding our relationships and our role within them.
This fall, the Philosophy Department welcomes Dr. Robert Miner in the role of Full Professor. Dr. Miner’s research specializes in Emotions and Passions, The Virtues, Philosophical Psychology, Theories of History, and Conceptions of the Self. This fall he will be teaching general ethics and medieval philosophy.
Philosophy majors Ellie Gates (2024) and Ava Dobski (2025) discussing their summer research with Professor Jeff Nicholas.
Daniel Carrero ’23
Opportunities for creative work and skills-based work in Lawrence helped prepare Carrero for the rigors of the Providence College classroom, where he majored in both creative writing and public and community service studies with a minor in philosophy.
Read more: https://news.providence.edu/entrepreneur-and-writer-daniel-carrero-23-bound-for-london-school-of-economics/?fbclid=IwAR34afM8zn297gKeKOIKmN-lCpujyNd-PwnmZKckMhicpfCFr5vqg8hC7Bg
The Philosophy Department’s own Professor Edmund Dain, the winner of the 2021-2022 Joseph R. Accinno Teaching Award, shares in episode 319 of The Providence College Podcast all about how he teaches students to philosophize.
