Faculty and Staff

Department Chair

Dale Turner

Office: 1-302

Extension: 3571

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 12^th 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

Office: 1-327

Extension: 4453

E-Mail: klgasdaglis@cpp.edu

Website:

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

Office: 1-329

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

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