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Where are they now?

Mike Farnsworth from Lynchburg, VA

Achievements:
1. Acceptance at the 4th International Summer school on "Philosophy, Probability, and Physics" held at the University of Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany.
2. Recipient of Arts & Sciences Summer Independent Study Award
3. Paper presented "Probabilistic Knowledge of the Status Quo Under the Veil" at the 32nd Annual Conference on Value Inquiry held at Lousisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana April 8 - 11

Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

Marvin Music from Laramie, WY. Is currently in Baton Rouge, working on his Thesis, while his wife attends school.

Interests: Centered on the metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological issues.

2007 Graduates

Allison Fritz from Chattanooga, Tennessee

• M.A. at UW Spring 2007

Interests: Political Philosophy and Ethical Theory. Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Environmental Justice. I am currently working on the feasibility of using Just War Theory to work out specific Environmental Conflicts.

Adam Thompson from Indianapolis, IN

• M.A. at UW Spring 2007

Achievements:

Spring 2007;

• Presented a paper; "The Moral Permissibility of Torture," in the 2007 Willits Essay Contest, receiving 2nd place.

Fall 2006
•  Paper, "As Long As We've Got Each Other" recognized (further info forthcoming).

Summer 2006

•  Guest Lecture, Philosophy of Mind Course, Johns Hopkins University - CTY Program, "John Searle: The Freedom of the Will"

Spring 2006

•  Presented a paper; "Abortion: A Defense of the Moderate Position" in the 2006 Willits Essay Contest, receiving 2nd place.

Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Perception, Evidence, and Consequentialism

Jason Williams from Cheyenne, WY

• M.A. at UW Spring 2007. Continued education in the PhD. program at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Achievements:

Spring 2006

•  Presented a paper; "The Implications of Liberal Neutrality on Euthanasia" at Loyola University-Chicago conference, "Discourse, Democracy, Justice"

•  Presented a paper; "A Lockean Approach to 'Species'" at the 49th Junto of the History of Science Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: History of Modern Philosophy and Environmental Ethics.

2006 Graduate

Jennifer Wright from Laramie, Wyoming. 

• Degrees include M.A. in Philosophy, 2006 and M.S. in Psychology, 2004.

Interests: Moral psychology, ethical theory, and applied ethics.

E-Mail: narvik@uwyo.edu
Personal website: http://uwstudentfpweb.uwyo.edu/N/NARVIK/

2005 Graduates

Bruce Buchanan from Indiana.  Studied at Eastern Kentucky University, University of Vienna (Austria), Harvard, and the University of Kentucky. 

• M.A. at UW Spring 2005: Continued education in the PhD program at Southern Illinois University.

Interests: I'm currently interested in the philosophical problems which arise from the tendency in philosophy, "science" and common sense to consider ideas as "things" (Reification). I'm also interested in German language philosophy from Kant to Wittgenstein.  Other interests include Philosophy of Ecology, Metaphilosophy, Critical Theory, Nietzsche, James, and Dewey.

Chris Gaffney from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. University Of Wisconsin - Green Bay, B.A., 2002. 

• M.A. at UW Summer 2005: Continued education at the University of Nevada, Reno in a mathematics MS program.

Interests: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language.

2004 Graduate

John Bengson B.A. Boston University.

Contact: jsteele@mail.utexas.edu
Personal website: https://webspace.utexas.edu/jtb538/Home.htm