Susan Armstrong < Faculty and Staff < Philosophy Dept. < CAHSS < HSU

Susan Armstrong

Rank: Professor
Location: BSS 552
Phone: 826-5754
email: sja3@humboldt.edu
office hours: MW 9:00-10:00 TR 11:00-12:00


Spring 2009

PHIL 302 Environmental Ethics MWF 10:00-10:50 SCIB 133
PHIL 351 20th Century Phil: Selected Topics MWF 12:00-12:50 FR 107
PHIL 384 Hist of Phil: 19th Century TR 9:30-10:50 SCIA 460
       
       

PowerPoint Presentations:

Education:

Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, l976
Dissertation: "The Rights of Nonhuman Beings: A Whiteheadian Study" ( c. University Microfilms)

Publications:

Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence, Third Edition, ed. Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).

The Animal Ethics Reader, ed. Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler (London: Routledge, 2003).

Articles:

  • "Advanced Technology and Process Philosophy," Process Studies 31.1 (2002): 101-129
  • "Making Justice Inclusive: Four Key Concepts", University of Melbourne, 1997, at http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/envjust/
  • "Hegel and Kierkegaard: A Feminist Reading," in Hegel and Hermeneutics: Essays in Honor of George L. Kline, ed. Shaun Gallagher (New York: Suny Press, l997)
  • "Souls in Process: A Theoretical Inquiry into Animal Psi," in Critical Reflections on the Paranormal, ed. M. Stoeber and H. Meynell (New York: Suny Press, l996)
  • "An Outline of a Theology of Difference," in Religious Experience and Ecological Responsibility, ed. Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick (New York: Peter Lang, l996)
  • "In Praise of Pigs," (poem), Between the Species 8.l (l992):36
  • "What Process Philosophy Can Contribute to the Land Ethic and Deep Ecology," The Trumpeter 9.l (Winter l99l): 29-34
  • "Nonhuman Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis," Process Studies l8.l (l989): l-l8
  • "Whitehead's Metaphysical System as a Foundation for Environmental Ethics," Environmental Ethics 8.3 (l986): 24l-59
  • "Ethical Considerations in Research on Wildlife Diseases," co-authored with Prof. Rick Botzler, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2l.3 (l985): 34l-45

     

Critical Book Reviews:

  • "The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals," by Paul Waldau (with Prof. Mary Bockover). Anthrozoos 15.3 (2002): 270-272.
  • "Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World," by Anna L. Peterson, Journal of Political Ecology (forthcoming)
  • "Utopias, Dophins, and Computers; Problems of Philosophy Plumbing," by Mary Midgley, Essays in Philosophy 3.2 (2002). <http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/>
  • "Being and Value," Frederick Ferre in Environmental Ethics (winter 1999): 425-428.
  • "Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology: The Major Writings of H.H. Price on Parapsychology and Survival," ed. Frank B. Dilley, The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 91 (1997): 237-240.
  • "The Greening of Ethics," by Richard Sylvan and David Bennett, in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy (1996)
  • "Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy," Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 88.2 (l995): l85-7.
  • "Nihilism Incorporated: European Civilization and Environmental Destruction," and "Beyond European Civilizations: Marxism, Process Philosophy and the Environment," by Aaran Gare, Environmental Values 4.3 (l995): 278-80
  • "Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and Hartshorne," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy l5.3 (l994): 332-37
  • "Individuality and Cooperative Action," Process Studies 20.4 (l99l): 248-52
  • "The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship," co-authorized with Gael Hodgkins, Humboldt Journal of Social Relations l0.2 (l983): 258-60

Online Papers:

University Service:

  • Chair, College Personnel Committee for Promotion and Tenure and Personnel Committee for Reappointment (2003-4)
  • Faculty Development Committee, 1999-2001
  • Sabbatical Leave Committee, 2000-2002
  • Chair, University Personnel Committee, l994-95; l993-94;member l992-93
  • Developed Major in Environmental Science, l99l-93 (with Prof. Peter Lehman)
  • Developed Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies (l990)
  • Developed Minor in Environmental Ethics, l988
  • Educational Policies Committee, 2000-
  • Faculty Development Committee, 1999-
  • University Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000

Courses taught: (a selection)

  • History of Philosophy (all periods)
  • Seminars in Kant, Hegel, Whitehead, Jung, Kierkegaard,Simone de Beauvoir
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Existentialism
  • Philosophy of Sex and Love
  • Feminist Theory
  • Theory of Knowledge
  • Ethics
  • Ecofeminism
  • Postmodern Philosophies
  • Animal Ethics

Philosophic interests:

  • Environmental ethics, animal ethics, environmental theology, feminist theory, postmodernism; animal consciousness; theories of paranormal experience; Jungian theory

Current Projects:

  • "The Importance of Partial Success," to be presented at the Metaphysical Society of America Annual Meeting, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., March 2004
  • Editor, Special Edition on Animal Ethics, Essays in Philosophy (General Editor Michael Goodman). June 2004

Hobbies:

  • reading, gardening, horseback riding, piano and pipe organ

Professional Memberships:

  • American Philosophical Association
  • Society for Women in Philosophy
  • Metaphysical Society of America
  • International Society for Environmental Ethics
  • Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought

 

Susan Armstrong < Faculty and Staff < Philosophy Dept. < CAHSS < HSU