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)

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Kristen M. Brown
e-mail:   brownkm@millsaps.edu

EDUCATION:

B.A.,Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

CURRENT TEACHING EMPHASES:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Embodiment, Ancient Philosophy, Existentialism, East Asian Philosophy, Philosophy of Feminism

RESEARCH:

Nietzsche and Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-dualism (State University of New York Press, 2006); journal articles on topics in Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Philosophy of Body

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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

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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.