Research & Scholarship

The research and scholarly efforts of our faculty ensure that our students are educated in a vibrant and engaged environment. Recent research and scholarship projects are listed below.

Contracts

Fischer, M. (Principal). University of Dayton Center for International Programs. $750. (May-June 2010).

McEwan, R. (Co-Principal), Fouke, D. C. “Re-recognizing the Earth underfoot: Exploring the hidden ecology of our own backyard through student engagement and community partnership.” Sponsored by Learning and Teaching Center, University of Dayton, $6,500. (January 1, 2010 - February 1, 2011).

Grants

DesAutels, P. J. (Supporting). “NSF ADVANCE Grant.” Sponsored by National Science Foundation, $3,000,000. (September 2008 - August 2011).

James, D. D. (Principal). “UDRI Seed Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Institute, $5,000. (May 2010 - August 2010).

Johnson, P. A. “Diversity across the Curriculum Workshop.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center, $5,000. (December 8, 2009 - December 31, 2010).

Marvin, W. C. (Principal). “Online Course Development Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton College of Arts & Sciences, $1,500. (January 2010 – May 2010).

Paslaru, V. (Principal). “Science, Values and Vocation.” Sponsored by Faculty Fund for Vocational Exploration, $5,000. (August 16, 2010 - May 31, 2011).

Paslaru, V. (Principal). “Strategies for Discovering Component Parts and Functions in Ecological Mechanistic Explanations.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $5,000. (May 15, 2010 - August 16, 2010).

Whisnant, R. S. (Principal). “Grant for online summer course development.” Sponsored by University of Dayton, College of Arts and Sciences, $1,500. (January 4, 2010 - July 2010).

Journal Articles

DesAutels, P. J. (2010). Sex Differences and Neuroethics. Philosophical Psychology, 23(1), 95-111.

Fouke, Daniel C. “Democratic Deliberation and Moral Awareness” Journal of Public Deliberation, Volume 5, Issue 1 2009 Article 10.

Fouke, Daniel C. “Humans and the Soil,” Environmental Ethics (2011) 33: 147-161

Gabbe, M. J. (2010). Themistius on Concept Acquisition and Knowledge of Essences. Archiv für Geshichte der Philosophie, 92(3), 215-235.

Kebede, M. (2010). Religion and Revolution: Tocqueville’s Insights into the Revolutionary Spirit. Suvidya, Journal of Philosophy and Religion, 3(2), 63-85.

McLeod, A. A. (2011). Pluralism About Truth in Early Chinese Philosophy: A Reflection on Wang Chong’s Approach. Comparative Philosophy, 2(1), 38-60. www.comparativephilosophy.org/index.php/ComparativePhilosophy/

Paslaru, V. (2010). Ecological Explanation Between Manipulation and Mechanism. Philosophy of Science, 76(5), 821-837.

Poe, D. M. (2010). Donut Shops and World Peace: Subsidiarity and the Bias for the Local. Journal of Globalization Studies, 1(1), 131-140.

Poe, D. M. (2010). Mothers’ Civil Disobedience. Journal of Peace and Justice Studies, 19(2), 27-45.

Newspapers

Kebede, M. (2010). The Quagmire of the Opposition and the way Forward. USA: Addis Voice. The Quagmire of the Opposition and the way Forward.

Kebede, M. (2010). Yes, a fake election but for what purpose? Washington, DC: Ethiopian Review. www.ethiopianreview.com/content/28086

Kebede, M. (2010). Passion and Interest: The Faking of Tigrean Nationalism. Ethioforum. ethioforum.org/?p=1699

Other

Fischer, M. (2010). Trojan Women and Devil Baby Tales: Jane Addams on Domestic Violence. in Feminist Interpretations of Addams, M. Hamington, ed.

Fischer, M. (2010). Keywords: What’s an Advocate to Do with the Words She’s Given? The Pluralist, Vol. 5:3.

Johnson, P. A. (2010). Society of Friends Schools. In Hunt, T. C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Johnson, P. A., Beabout, G. (2010). Teaching Ethics at a Catholic College or University. St. Paul, MN: St. Thomas University. http://www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/cst/curriculum/PortlandCurr/BeaboutJohnsonBackgr.pdf

Johnson, P. A., “General Education,” Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent. Thomas C. Hunt, James C. Carper, Thomas J. Lasley, and C. Daniel Raisch (eds). SAGE, 2010.

Kebede, M., paper accepted for publication by Diogenes and titled “Return to the Source: Asres Yenesew and the West.”

Kebede, M., book accepted for publication by Lexington Books and titled “Ideology and Elite conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution.”

Poe, D. M. (2010). Anti-Nuclear Power Protests in the US. In Young, N. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Peace (vol. 1, pp. 67-69). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Poe, D. M. (2010). Feminism: Cultural Violence. In Young, N. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Peace (vol. 2, 4 pages). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Performances

Marvin, W. C. “Yellow Springs Blues Festival.” Usual Suspects, African American Cultural Works, Yellow Springs, OH. (September 2010).

Presentations

DesAutels, P. J. “Do the Poor Have a Right to Health Care?” Miami Valley Hospital/University of Dayton Health Care Symposium, Miami Valley Hospital and University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (March 27, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “A Philosopher Learns from Historians in ‘American Immigration Revisited’.” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC. (April 9, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Feminism in the United States Today.” International Women’s Club of Leipzig, International Women’s Club of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. (June 11, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Jane Addams’s Cosmopolitan Pacifism.” Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. (June 17, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Keywords: What’s an Advocate to do with the Words She is Given?” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Charlotte, NC. (March 12, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Mozart’s Sympathetic Orientalism?” Mozart’s Worlds, National Endowment for the Humanities, Vienna, Austria. (June 30, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Simkhovitch’s Method of Settlements.” Interdisciplinary Jane Addams Society, Interdisciplinary Jane Addams Society, Evanston, IL. (April 25, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “The Moral Universe of the Magic Flute.” Mozart’s Worlds, National Endowment for the Humanities, Vienna, Austria. (July 7, 2010).

Fischer, M. R. “Women’s Peace Missions.” Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual Conference, Peace and Justice Studies Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (October 1, 2010).

Fischer, M. R., James, D. D. “Rereading Du Bois.” Summer Institute in American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. (July 30, 2010).

Fouke, D. C. “Mini-Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Sustainability.” Mini-Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Sustainability, Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (SEE), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (December 7, 2010).

Fouke, D. C. “The True Costs of Energy.” Panelist in Energy Use Teach-In, Environmental Sustainability Week, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 10, 2010).

Gabbe, M. J. “17th Annual Humanities Symposium: Living Traditions.” University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (January 26, 2010).

Gabbe, M. J. “Aristotle and the Functionalist Debate.” Phi Sigma Tau Induction Dinner, Phi Sigma Tau, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (April 23, 2010).

James, D. D. “Considering Rage and Outrage: A Black Feminist Philosophy of Emotion and Social Change.” Collegium of Black Women Philosophers Annual Conference, Penn State University, University Park, PA. (April 16, 2010).

James, D. D. “The Hostile Gospel and Democratic Faith: Black Feminist Reflections on Rap and Dewey.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Charlotte, NC. (March 13, 2010).

Johnson, P. A. “Reply to John Schellenberg, ‘The Philosophical Uses of Atheistic Reasoning’.” Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Claremont, CA. (February 26, 2010).

Johnson, P. A. “The Practice of Hospitality.” Alumni Chair in Humanities Installation Address, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (April 16, 2010).

Johnson, P. A., G. B. “Teaching Ethics at a Catholic College or University.” Conference on Mission-Driven Business Education, University of Portland, Portland, OR. (August 3, 2010).

Kebede, M. “Ethics and War Strategy: The Case of the Derg’s Military Debacle in Ethiopia.” 53rd Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, African Studies Association, San Francisco, CA. (November 19, 2010).

McLeod, A. A. “A Reconstruction of Wang Chong’s Argument Against Han Feizi’s Legalism in His Essay Fei Han.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA. (March 30, 2010).

McLeod, A. A. “Ambivalence toward Children and the Ethics of Fatherhood in the Analects.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA. (March 31, 2010).

Paslaru, V. “Ecological Explanation, Mechanisms, and Laws: Biogeography’s Mechanistic Approach.” British Society for Philosophy of Science, Dublin, Ireland. (July 8, 2010).

Poe, D. M. “Erotic Peace: Threats and Opportunities for Peace within Eros.” EROS: Third International/Interdisciplinary Conference, the Human Condition Series, Nipissing University Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada. (May 21, 2010).

Poe, D. M. “Hope: Imagining Possibilities for Clean Energy other than Nuclear Power.” The Obama Years: War, Peace, and Environmental Sustainability, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (October 30, 2010).

Whisnant, R. S. “From Jekyll to Hyde: The Grooming of Male Pornography Consumers.” Short course on, “Legal Responses to Gender-based Violence.” American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. (September 1, 2010).

Whisnant, R. S. “From Jekyll to Hyde: The Grooming of Male Pornography Consumers.” The Future of Pornography, Stop Porn Culture, Wheelock College, Boston, MA. (June 12, 2010).