Dr. Theodore Ammon, Dr. Patrick Hopkins, Dr. Steven Smith, and Dr. Kristen Brown
(Left to Right)
Theodore G. Ammon
E-mail: ammontg@millsaps.edu
Education: B.A. Mississippi State University; M.A., Ph.D. Washington University
Current Teaching Emphases: History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy and Literature
Research: Published on the ethical duties of teachers, the philosophical underpinnings
of the literature of Jorge Luis Borges, and teaching strategies for moral development; editor of Conversations with William H. Gass
(2003)
Kristen M. Brown
E-mail: brownkm@millsaps.edu
Education: B.A.,Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Current Teaching Emphases: Philosophy of Violence, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Embodiment, Existentialism, Philosophy of Feminism, and Ancient Philosophy
Research: The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, ed.
(State University of New York Press, forthcoming); Nietzsche and Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-dualism
(State University of New York Press, 2006); book chapters on trauma theory and on Merleau-Ponty; journal articles on topics
in Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Philosophy of Body
Patrick Hopkins
E-mail: hopkipd@millsaps.edu
Education: B.A. University of Mississippi; M.A., Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis
Current Teaching Emphases: Ethics, Applied Ethics (Biomedical, Environmental), Science and Technology
Studies, Gender Studies, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology.
Research: Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender and Technology (1999); journal articles
on euthanasia, cloning, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence,
gender theory; works in progress on religion and technology, ethics
of virtual reality, the concept of "nature" in moral discourse, abortion
Steven G. Smith
E-mail: smithsg@millsaps.edu
Education: B.A. Florida State University (1973), M.A. Vanderbilt University (1978),
Ph.D. Duke University (1980)
Current Teaching Emphases: History of Western philosophy and Abrahamic religious thought; philosophy
of religion; gender and human nature; film studies.
Research: The Argument to the Other: Reason Beyond Reason in the Thought of Karl
Barth and Emmanuel Levinas (1983), The Concept of the Spiritual:
An Essay in First Philosophy (1988), Gender Thinking (1992),
Worth Doing (2004), and Appeal and Attitude: Prospects for
Ultimate Meaning (2005); journal articles on topics in
philosophy of religion, theology, ethics, philosophical anthropology,
and aesthetics.
