Philosophy Department

Hiram College

Faculty

Lee Braver, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair (braverlj@hiram.edu)
  • Education:
    • B.A., Northwestern University
    • M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
  • Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Wittgenstein
  • Selected Publications:
    • Review of Heidegger's Philosophy of Being by Herman Philipse. Philosophical Writings. Issue 12, Autumn 1999.
    • Ascent and Descent, co-authored with Paul G. Kuntz. Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, ed. Helene E. Roberts. Chicago: Fitzory Dearborn Publishers, 1998. Pp. 69-81.
    • Fortune, Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, same as above, pp. 342-345.
    • Order/Chaos, Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, same as above, pp. 671-684.

Colin A. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (andersonca@hiram.edu)
  • Education:
    • B.A., St. Johns' College, Annapolis, MD
    • M.A., Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago
  • Interests: Ancient Philosophy especially Plato and Aristotle; Contemporary Continental Philosophy; History of Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics.
  • Publications and Presentations:
    • "The Logic(s) of the Eschatological Myth in Plato's Phaedo." Society for History of Ancient Greek Political Thought, 2001.
    • "Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo." Plato for the New Millenium. Conference at Lewis University, 2000.
    • Review of Chorology: On Beginnning in Plato's Timaeus, John Sallis (Indiana University Press, 1999). Bryn Mawr Classical Review: June, 2000.
    • Review of Metaphysics in Ordinary Language, Stanley Rosen (Yale University Press, 1999). Philosophy in Review, June 2000.
    • Review of Plato's Phaedo, Translated by Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, and Eric Salem: Focus Publishing, 1998. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: March, 1999.
    • "Body, Soul, and Desire in Plato's Phaedo," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 1998.

Associated Faculty

Ken Alpern, George and Arlene Foote Chair in Ethics & Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Issues(alpernkd@hiram.edu)
  • Education:
    • Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
    • B.A.,Magna cum laude, with distinction, Kenyon College
    • M.A., Ph. D. University of Pittsburgh
  • Interests: Ethics: theory, history, applied (including, medicine, business, law, public policy, engineering); Critical Thinking; History of Philosophy (ancient, early modern); Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science; Logic
  • Selected Publications:
    • "What Do We Want Trust to Be? Some Distinctions of Trust," (translated into Chinese) in Xin Ren Yu Sheng Y: Zhang Ai, Yu Qiao, Liang, (Trust and Business: Barriers and Bridges), Daryl Koehn, ed., translated by Xiaohe Lu, Xun Ma, Rongxi He, and Ping Hue, Shanghai: Publishing House of the Shanghai Social Science Academy, 2003.
    • Editor, The Ethics of Reproductive Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
    • "Democratic Reasons: The Proper Place of Appeals to Morality in Political Discourse," forthcoming in an anthology on church-state relations in the 20th century, to be published by Wm. Eerdman Publishing Co.
    • "What Do We Want Trust to Be?" Journal of Business and Professional Ethics 16(1998): 29-45.
    • "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," (encyclopedia entry), Blackwell's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Patricia Werhane, and R. Edward Freeman eds., Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997: 282-83.
    • "Genetic Puzzles and Stork Stories: On the Meaning and Significance of Having Children." In The Ethics of Reproductive Technology, Oxford University Press, 1992: 147-169.
    • "Ingenieureals moralische Helden," in Hans Lenk and Gunther Ropohl, eds., Technik und Ethik, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1987: 177-193.
    • "Aristotle on the Friendships of Utility and Pleasure," Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (1983): 303-315.
    • "Moral Dimensions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," in Ethical Issues in Business, 1st edition., Thomas Donaldson and Patricia Werhane, eds., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982: 52-58. (Also in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions.)