http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:29:34 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:29:34 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642217 Dr. Morton was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 4th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviewsTimothy Morton is a Professor of English at UC Davis, where he teaches literature and ecology, Romantic-period literature, and literary theory. Dr. Morton’s interests include literature and the environment, ecotheory, philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory, food studies, sound and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eighteenth century. In addition to being a well-known blogger, he has published nine books and sixty essays – most notably The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, April 2010) and Ecology Without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007; paperback 2009). Dr. Morton is part of the movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643518 Dr. Briggle was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 4th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Adam Briggle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, where he specializes and teaches courses in Bioethics, Environmental Studies and the Philosophy of Technology. His areas of research interest and expertise are reflected in his book, A Rich Bioethics Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643647 Dr. Borgmann was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 16th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ Albert Borgmann is an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. He has an MA in literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munich (Germany). Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Montana. His special area is the philosophy of society and culture with particular emphasis on technology. Among his publications are Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Crossing the Postmodern Divide (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Holding on to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Power Failure (2003), and Real American Ethics (2006). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=640875 Dr. Feenberg was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 18th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series.Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He has also taught for many years in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University, and at Duke University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Universities of California, San Diego and Irvine, the Sorbonne, the University of Paris-Dauphine, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Tokyo and the University of Brasilia. He is the author of Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1981; Oxford University Press, 1986), Critical Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991), Alternative Modernity (University of California Press, 1995), and Questioning Technology (Routledge, 1999). A second edition of Critical Theory of Technology appeared with Oxford in 2002 under the title Transforming Technology. Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History appeared in 2005 with Routledge. Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity appeared with MIT Press in 2010. Translations of several of these books are available. Dr. Feenberg is also co-editor of Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia (Bergin and Garvey Press, 1987), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana University Press, 1995), Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2003), and Community in the Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). His co-authored book on the French May Events of 1968 appeared in 2001 with SUNY Press under the title When Poetry Ruled the Streets. With William Leiss, Feenberg has edited a collection entitled The Essential Marcuse published by Beacon Press. A book on Feenberg’s philosophy of technology entitled Democratizing Technology, appeared in 2006. Dr. Feenberg is currently studying online education on a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In this exclusive interview with Figure/Ground, Professor Feenberg talks about Marcuse, Heidegger, McLuhan and the philosophy of technology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642841 Professor Blair was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on March 11th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Ann Blair is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in Early Modern France, Early Modern European, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of the Book and History of Science. Her interests include the history of the book and of education, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, early modern natural philosophy and its interactions with religion. Her most recent book is Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643506 Dr. B. W. Powe was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on October 18th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ B. W. Powe is a Canadian author and teacher. Lived in Toronto from 1959 until 1996; he attended York University for English studies where in 1977 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Powe received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1981; he studied there with Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. He received his Ph.D. from York University in October 2009. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Literature at York in July 2010. His Ph.D is on Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, their crossings in history, their agon and complementarity (their conflicts and harmonies), and the stirring alchemy of their thought. He currently teaches English in the Department of English at York University. His courses there have included Visionary Literature: from Hildegard von Bingen and Dante to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Two Canadian Theorists. He continues to teach the first year introduction to literature course. B. W. Powe is also a prolific author: his work has been profiled on CBC-TV, TVO, CITY-TV, Bravo-TV, ACCESS and CTV. His novel, Outage, was listed as one of the best ten novels of the year by Philip Marchand in The Toronto Star, in 1995/96; it was also an editor’s choice novel in the Globe & Mail in 1995. His book, A Tremendous Canada of Light, was selected as a notable book of the year by the Globe and Mail in 1993. His book of poems, The Unsaid Passing, was shortlisted for The ReLit Prize in 2006. His novella, These Shadows Remain: A Fable, is to be published in the winter of 2010 by Guernica. His writings have been translated into French by Derrick de Kerckhove and Michelle Tisseyre. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642803 Dr. Malin was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 12th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Brent Malin is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, where he specializes in media history, theory, and criticism with a focus in cultural studies and critical theory. His work explores how various popular cultural artifacts suggest particular understandings of identity and the implications of these understandings for questions of cultural power and citizenship. Malin has examined such contemporary topics as the construction of masculinity during the Clinton era, as well as earlier issues such as the ideologies of whiteness and middle-class distinction that accompanied the early 20th century stereoscope. Other recent work has focused on the ways in which institutional, scientific, and journalistic discourses on technology have impacted ideas about pleasure, emotion, and identity in the United States—examining such varied technologies as the steel guitar and the psycho-galvanometer. Malin has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Iowa, St. Olaf College, Allegheny College, and San Francisco State University. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643491 Dr. Gronbeck was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 23rd, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Bruce Gronbeck is A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Public Address, Television and Politics, Rhetoric and Media Studies at the University of Iowa. He works primarily in the area of rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and writes about American cultural studies and the evolution of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th century to the present. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=640619 Calvin O. Schrag was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on January 24th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series.Dr. Schrag is George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He was a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a Fulbright Scholar for research at Heidelberg and Oxford, and a Guggenheim Fellow at Freiburg University. His published works have been translated into eleven foreign languages, and among his most famous books are Existence and Freedom, God as Otherwise than Being: Toward a Semantics of the Gift, Convergence amidst Difference, Experience and Being, Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences, Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity, The Resources of Rationality, and The Self after Postmodernity. Professor Schrag has been invited to partake in seventy five lectures in the US and abroad. He is the only living member of the original group of five philosophers who designed the format for the current Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, which will celebrate its 50th birthday in October of this year. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=640915 Dr. Mitcham was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on December 29th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ Carl Mitcham is Hans Jonas Chair at the European Graduate School EGS and Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines. Professor Mitcham is one of the leading American philosophers of technology with a focus on the ethics of science, technology and medicine. Mitcham received his Ph. D. in Philosophy at Fordham University in 1988. He has held academic positions at several institutions in the United States and internationally: from 1970-72 at Berea College, Kentucky as an Instructor in Philosophy; from 1972-82 at St. Catharine College, Kentucky as a Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Science; from 1982-90 at Brooklyn Polytechnic University as an Associate and then a Professor of Humanities. He was a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Science-Technology-Society Program, Pennsylvania State University from 1989-99, and the founding Director of the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center, Polytechnic University, New York. Mitcham has also been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Pais Vasco, Spain (2003-4), the University of Tilburg and the University of Twente, Netherlands (1998), the Universidad de Oviedo (1993), and the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagez (1988). Mitcham is currently the Director of the Hennebach Program for the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, a program which sponsors events with visiting professors in the humanities. Being a primarily engineering school, the Hennebach Program works to incorporate the importance of humanities into their highly regarded technical discipline. As head of the program, Mitcham heads this department that seeks to implement interdisciplinary studies with the assistance of an Advisory Committee. He is also the president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Mitcham is the author of several books including: Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology, with Robert Mackey (1973); Thinking Through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy (1994); Research in Philosophy and Technology: Social and Philosophical Constructions of Technology (1995); Thinking Ethics in Technology: Hennebach Lectures and Papers, 1995-1996(1997); Engineer’s Toolkit: Engineering Ethics, with R. Shannon Duval (2000); La ética en la profesin de ingeniero: Ingeniera y ciudadanan, with Marcos Garca de la Huerta (2001); Technology and Religion: Oppositions, Sympathies, Transformations (2008); and Science, Technology, and Ethics: An Introduction.