American Philosophy Concentration

 

Students

 

 

   

The American philosophy concentration is still young and small, but it is also dynamic.

 

  

2004

 

David Agler

Received a BA in Philosophy and in English from IUPUI in 2004. In 2005 he became a Graduate Assistant at the Peirce Edition Project to work on annotations research related to volume 9 of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce. Agler received travel grants from the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Organization to deliver a paper at the 7th International Pragmatism meeting, São Paulo. In 2006 he received the Kern Award and in the spring or 2007 he will be teaching his first introductory ethics course within the Philosophy Department. Agler is interested in pragmatism, semiotics, personal identity, and the thought of Charles S. Peirce and Josiah Royce.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “The Role of Replication in the Growth of Symbols,” 31 Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University, Sept. 2006.
  • Commentary on “Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Royce and Dewey on the Community’s Responsibility for the Lost Individual” by Albert Spencer. 6th Annual Donald G. Wester Conference, Oklahoma City, April 2006.
  • “The Semiotic Self,” 8th International Pragmatism meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2005.

 

Daniel Kruidenier

Received a BA in Philosophy from Appalachian State University in 1999. After enrolling into the MA program, Kruidenier became a Graduate Assistant at the Institute for American Thought through a generous grant from Arthur and Alice Burks, with the assignment to work on the collection of documents and artifacts related to the ENIAC computers that were previously donated to the IAT by the Burks’s. In 2006 he got accepted in the PhD program at the university of South Carolina.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “Is Prophetic Pragmatism Pragmatist?” 28th MidSouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Feb. 2005.

 

Scott Philotoff

Received a BA in Philosophy and in English from Indiana University. Bloomington. In 2005 he also got accepted in the Graduate Certificate Program in Professional Editing.

 

Brian Wilson

Received his BA from Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, in 2000. In 2004 he became a Graduate assistant at the Peirce Edition Project to work on annotations research related to volume 9 of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce, as well as other miscellaneous projects. Wilson received travel grants from the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Organization to deliver a paper at the 7th International Pragmatism meeting, São Paulo. In 2005, he got accepted in the Ph.D. Program at Purdue University.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “Peirce's Fallibilism, Realism, and the Scientific Method of Inquiry.” 7th International Pragmatism meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2004.

 

 

 

2005

 

Troy Crayton

Received a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Management, both at IUPUI in 2005. He is interested in religious studies and metaphysics, as well as the theories of William James and Carl Jung.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “On Semeiotic and Human Consciousness,” 31 Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University, Sept. 2006.

 

Benjamin Peltz

Received his BA in Philosophy from IUPUI in 2005, having first attended the University of Iowa. Peltz has worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Santayana Edition to work on annotations research related to the critical edition of Santayana’s Life of Reason (MIT Press, forthcoming), and is currently teaching a writing course for the Department of English.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “The Moment of Meaning: Apperception in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce.” 10th International Pragmatism meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2006.
  • Commentary on “Communities, Traitors, and the Feminist Cause” by Kara Barnette. 6th Annual Donald G. Wester Conference, Oklahoma City, April 2006. 

 

Chris Wilson

Received his BA in Philosophy from SUNY-Fredonia in 1994, and a MLS Library and Information Science, from SUNY-Buffalo in 1995. A former student of Randall Dipert, Wilson’s main interest is in logic. Employed through the Development Office of the School of Liberal Arts, Wilson worked part time on the Peirce Edition Project Newsletter.

 

Paper Presentations

  • “The One Law of Mind,” 31 Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University, Sept. 2006.

 

 

 

2006

 

Sean Brown

Coming from Vincennes University, Brown received his BA from IUPUI. At Vincennes University he was Student Senate President and he served as the Student Trustee of Vincennes.

 

Michael Griffin

Received a BS in accounting from Purdue University with highest distinction and a JD from IU Bloomington cum laude. Employed as a professional lawyer in downtown Indianapolis, Griffin has a strong interest in legal pragmatism and the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

 

Bonnie Meyer

Bonnie Meyer received a BA degree in English at IUPUI, with a minor in philosophy.  She works as a tutor in the IUPUI Writing Center.

 

 

Please direct any questions or comments to amphil@iupui.edu