Faculty and Staff
Department Chair

Dale Turner
Office: 1-302
Extension: 3571
E-Mail: dturner@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 8:15-9:00, Tuesdays 10:00-2:00, Wednesdays 8:15-9:00 and 12:00-1:00, Fridays 8:15-9:00 and 12:00-1:00
Research areas: informal logic and philosophy of education
Recent Scholarly Activities
- “Existence Problems in Philosophy and Science,” Synthese, 190, 18 (December 2013): 4239-4259. Co-authored with Peter Ross.
- "Revisiting Deep Disagreement," Informal Logic, 25, 1 (Winter 2005). Co-authored with Larry Wright.
- "Sensibility Theory and Conservative Complacency," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 86, 4 (December 2005): 544-555. Co-authored with Peter Ross.
Department Staff

Sue Baird, Administrative Support Assistant
Office: Department Office: 1 - 321
Extension: 4766
E-Mail: sebaird@cpp.edu
Continuing Faculty

David Adams
Office: 1-320
Extension: 3574
E-Mail: dmadams@cpp.edu
Website: davidmadamsphd.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00, Wednesdays 2:00-3:00, and Thursdays 2:00-4:00
Research areas: bioethics and philosophy of law.
Recent Scholarly Activities
- “Clinical Ethics Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide,” In Jukka Varelius and Michael Cholbi (eds.) New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Dordrecht: Springer; 2015).
- “Belief and Death: Capital Punishment and the Competence-For-Execution Requirement,” Criminal Law and Philosophy 2014. DOI 10.1007/s11572-014-9293-6.
- “Ethics Expertise and Moral Authority: Is There A Difference?,” American Journal of Bioethics vol. 13 (2) 2013: 27-28.
- “Investigational Drugs and the Desperately Ill,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine vol. 20 (1) 2012: 6-11.
- Philosophical Problems in the Law, Fifth Edition (Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage.; 2012)
Cory Aragon
Office: 1-331
Extension: 3359
E-Mail: csaragaon@cpp.edu
Website: https://cpp.academia.edu/CorwinAragon
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 1:00-3:00, Wednesdays 1:00-3:00, Thursdays 12:00-3:00
Research areas: social and political philosophy (including issues of global justice), normative ethics, feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race
Recent Scholarly Activities
Papers presented
“Global Gender Justice and Epistemic Oppression: A Response to an Epistemic Dilemma,” presented at Philosophy Department Brown-Bag Series at Cal Poly Pomona, October 18, 2016
“Social(ist) Change in Action,” presented at 12th Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference at the University of Kentucky, November 10-12, 2016
“Social(ist) Change in Action,” presented at World Philosophy Day at Cal Poly Pomona, November 17, 2016
Works in progress
Seeking Justice in an Unjust World: Situating Responsibility for Injustice (book-length manuscript)
“Agency, Complicity, and the Responsibility to Resist Structural Injustice,” Co-authored with Alison M. Jaggar
“Building a Case for Social Justice: Situating Case Studies in Nonideal Theory.” In Making the Case: Feminist and Critical Race Theorists Investigate Case Studies, edited by Heidi Grasswick and Nancy McHugh. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017.
· “Global Gender Justice and Epistemic Oppression: A Response to an Epistemic Dilemma” (paper submission accepted for peer-reviewed edited collection)

Michael Cholbi
Office: 1 - 319B
Extension: 3845
E-Mail: mjcholbi@cpp.edu
Website: michael.cholbi.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Friday mornings, principally by appointment
Research areas: theoretical ethics, applied ethics, and moral psychology
Recent Scholarly Activities (PhilPapers profile)
- “Moral expertise and theory neutrality.” In L. Guidry-Grimes and J. Watson, eds., Moral Expertise. Springer, forthcoming 2018.
- “Euthanasia.” In G. Caruso, ed.. Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2018.
- “Paternalism and our rational powers.” Mind, forthcoming 2017.
- “Grief’s rationality, backward and forward.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming 2017.
- “Paternalism and duties to self.” In J. Hanna and K. Grill (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism, forthcoming 2017.
- “Dignity and assisted dying: What Kant got right (and wrong).” In S. Muders, The Role of Human Dignity in Assisted Death. Oxford University Press, fortchoming 2017.
- “The euthanasia of companion animals.” In C. Overall (ed.), Pets and People:The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals (Oxford University Press, 2017): 264-278.
- “Grief and end-of-life medical decision making.” In J. Davis (ed.), Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments (2017): 201-217.
- "How procreation generates parental rights and obligations." In J. Ahlberg and M. Cholbi, (eds.) Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues (Routledge, 2016: 15-36.
- Parenthood, Procreation, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues. (ed.) (Routledge, 2016. With Jaime Ahlberg.)
- "Suicide. "Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, 2016.
- Understanding Kant's Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- “The denial of moral dilemmas as a regulative ideal.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (2016): 268-289.
- “Kant on euthanasia and the duty to die: Clearing the air.” Journal of Medical Ethics 41(2015): 607-610.
- “The right to die and the medical cartel.” Ethics, Medicine, and Public Heallth 1 (2015): 486-93.
- New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (ed.) (Springer, 2015. With Jukka Varelius.)
- Immortality and the Philosophy of Death. (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).
- “Immortality and the exhaustibility of value.” In M. Cholbi (ed.), Immortality and the Philosophy of Death, Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.
- “Medically enabled suicides.” In M. Cholbi and J. Varelius (eds.), New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Springer, 2015), pp. 169-184.
- “Grief.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell), 2015.
- “Time, value, and collective immortality.” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 197-211.
- “No last resort: Pitting to right to die against the right to medical self-determination.” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 143-157.
- “On Marcus Singer’s ‘On duties to oneself.’” Ethics 125 (2015): 851-853.
- “Anti-conservative educational bias is real — but not unjust.”Social Philosophy and Policy31 (2014): 176-203.
- “A direct Kantian duty to animals.”Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (2014): 338-358.
- “Luck, blame, and desert.” Philosophical Studies 169 (2014): 313-332
- “The implications of ego depletion for the ethics and politics of manipulation.” In C. Coons and M.E. Weber, ed., Manipulation (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 201-220.
- “A plethora of promises — or none at all.” American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2014):261-272.
- “Agents, patients, and obligatory self-benefit.”Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (2014): 159-184.

John Z Ding
Office: 1 - 328
Extension: 4660
E-Mail: zding@cpp.edu
Website: cpp.edu/~zding
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 12:50-2:50, Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 (online), and Thursdays 12:50-2:50
Research areas: comparative philosophy, social and political philosophy, Asian philosophy
Recent Scholarly Activities
- Mystical Symbolism and Dialetheist Cognitivism: The Transformastion of Truth-Falsehood (Zhen-Jia), Journal of East-West Thought, June, 2012
- Bertrand Russell: The Philosopher of Al Philosophies, Jiuzhou Press, 2012
- Self-Transformation and Moral Universalism: A comparative Study of Wang Yangming and Schleiermacher, Journal of East-West Thought, December, 2011
- Some Thoughts on Studies of East-West Thought, Journal of East-West Thought, December, 2011
Katherine Gasdaglis
Extension: 4453
E-Mail: klgasdaglis@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 and Thursdays 1:00-2:30
Research areas: Kant's theoretical philosophy, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy
Recent Scholarly Activities
Alex Madva
Extension: x3845
E-Mail: ammadva@cpp.edu
Website: alexmadva.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 5:10-7:00 and Fridays 11:30-1:00
Research areas: Philosophy of mind and cognitiive science, philosophy of race and feminism, applied ethics (esp. prejudice and discrimination)
Recent Scholarly Activities
- "Stereotypes, Conceptual Centrality, and Gender Bias: An Empirical Investigation" (forthcoming), with Guillermo del Pinal and Kevin Reuter, Ratio
- “Stereotypes, Prejudice, and the Taxonomy of the Implicit Social Mind,” co-authored with Michael Brownstein, Noûs (2017).
- “A Plea for Anti-Anti-Individualism: How Oversimple Psychology Misleads Social Policy,” Ergo 27:3 (2016)
- “Implicit Bias and Latina/os in Philosophy,” (Forthcoming), Special Issue of the APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, eds. Caroline Arruda and Amy Reed-Sandoval.
- “Why Implicit Attitudes Are (Probably) not Beliefs,” (2016), Synthese, 193, 2659–2684.
- “Virtue, Social Knowledge, and Implicit Bias,” (2016), In Implicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology, eds. Jennifer Saul and Michael Brownstein, Oxford, peer-reviewed.
- “The Normativity of Automaticity,” (September 2012), with Michael Brownstein, Mind and Language, 27:4, 410-434.
- “Ethical Automaticity,” (March 2012), with Michael Brownstein, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 42:1, 67-97.
Peter Ross
Office: 1 - 325
Extension: 3036
E-Mail:pwross@cpp.edu
Website: cpp.edu/~pwross
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 12:00-1:00 and Wednesdays 12:00-1:00
Research areas: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and cognitive science
Recent Scholarly Activities
- "Phenomenal Externalism's Explanatory Power," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
- "What the Mind-Independence of Colour Requires," forthcoming in M. Silva (ed.), How Colour Matters for Philosophy (Springer)
- “Spectrum Inversion,” forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour, edited by Derek Brown and Fiona Macpherson.
- “Primary and Secondary Qualities,” The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception, editor Mohan Matthen, Oxford University Press, 2015, 405-421.
- “Existence Problems in Philosophy and Science,” Synthese, 190, 18 (December 2013): 4239-4259. Co-authored with Dale Turner.
- "Perceived Colors and Perceived Locations: A Problem for Color Subjectivism," American Philosophical Quarterly, 49, 2 (April 2012): 125-138.
- Review of The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives, editor Fiona Macpherson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2011.08.24.
Part-Time Faculty Information
Fidel Arnecillo
Office: 5-207
Extension: 3847
E-Mail: faarnecillo@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 7:15-7:55, Wednesdays 7:15-7:55, and Fridays 7:15-7:55
David Chadd
Office: 1-319A
Extension: 3847
E-Mail: dchadd@linkline.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 and Wednesdays 12:00-2:00
Gwendolyn Dolske
Office: 1-319
Extension: 4591
E-Mail: gmdolske@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Wednesdays 9:15-11:00
Scott Galloway
Office: 1-329A
Extension: 3847
E-Mail: sgalloway@fullerton.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00
Darryl Henry
Office: 5-205
Extension: 3847
E-Mail: dlhenry@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Wednesdays 6:00-8:00
Lowell Herr
Office: 1-319
Extension: 4591
E-Mail: lherr@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 3:00-4:50 and Thursdays 3:00-4:50
Office: 1-319
Extension: 4591
E-Mail: americanphilos@aol.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 7:00-7:55, Wednesdays 7:00-7:55, and Fridays 7:00-7:55
Gwynn Markle
Office: 1-319
Extension: 4591
E-Mail: gamarkle@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:50 and Thursdays 11:30-12:50
Grant Marler
Office: 1-319
Extension: 4591
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 9:00-10:00, Tuesdays 11:00-12:00, Wednesdays 1:30-2:30, Thursdays 3:10-4:10, Fridays 9:00-10:00
Mandy Mitchell
Office: 5-207
Extension: 3164
E-Mail: memitchell@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:50 and Thursdays 1:30-2:50
Alex Novack
Office: 5-207
Extension:
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 10:30-11:30
Stephen Parise
Office: 5-205
Extension: 4453
Linda Reardan
Office: 5-205
Extension:
E-Mail: lreardan@roadrunner.com, lereardan@cpp.edu
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 8:55-9:15 and 10:35-10:55, Wednesdays 8:55-9:15 and 10:35-10:55, and Fridays 8:55-9:15 and 10:35-10:55
Adam Stowell
Office: 5-207
Extension:
E-Mail: philosurfer@gmail.com
Winter 2017 office hours: Mondays 10:30-11:30 and Wednesdays 10:30-11:30