SHARON
M. KAYE
Associate
Professor
Department
of Philosophy
Phone:
(216) 397-4769
Fax:
(216) 397-1738
E-mail:
skaye@jcu.edu
Born:
Education:
Ph.D. Philosophy:
Dissertation: William of Ockham’s
Theory of Conscience
Supervisors: Calvin Normore and
Bernard Katz
M.A.
Philosophy:
B.A.
Philosophy:
Graduated with Distinction
Diploma in Massage Therapy:
(License in Massage Therapy expected December 2007)
Grants, Awards, and Honors:
American Philosophical Association Award for
Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, 2006
YWCA of
Bellefaire JCB Biathlon Winner, 2005
Bellefaire JCB Biathlon Winner, 2003
Phi Beta
Kappa Key, 1992-present
Phi Kappa
Phi Honor Society, 1990-present
University Courses Taught:
First Year
Seminar – The Body in Art, Science, and Literature
Philosophy
of Education – Diversity
First Year
Seminar – Science, Democracy, and Capitalism
Philosophy
of Friendship
Topics in
Metaphysics Seminar
First Year
Seminar – Frontiers and Borders
Writing
Intensive Philosophy of Education
Philosophy
of Education
Writing
Intensive Medieval Philosophy
Medieval
Philosophy
Introduction
to Philosophy
Philosophy
of Religion
Formal
Logic Tutorial Leader
Administrative Service:
Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy,
2007
Director, Carroll-Cleveland Philosophers’ Program,
2006-07
Chair, Rank, Tenure Salary Committee,
2006-07
Secretary, Rank, Tenure, Salary Committee,
2000-01, 2004-05
Current Projects:
<Title Withheld>: A Philosophical Novel (Parmenides Press,
forthcoming 2008)
“William
of Ockham and the Unlikely Connection between Free Will and Transubstantiation”
(under review with the American Catholic Philosophical Association)
“Lust,
Sport, and the Will to Win” (under review with the Journal of Sport and
Society)
Touch and Transcendence: An Empirical
Study of the Effects of Massage Therapy on Attitudes toward Spirituality (under
review with the Center for Theology and Science)
“Political
Pessimism in Christian Thought” (part of a project under review for an NEH
grant)
Publications:
Books
Medieval
Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide (forthcoming from Oneworld Press, 2008)
(Editor) Philosophy
and Lost (Blackwell, 2007)
More Philosophy for Teens, with co-author Paul
Thomson (Prufrock Press, 2007)
Philosophy
for Teens, with co-author Paul
Thomson (Prufrock Press, 2006)
Translated by Prufrock into
Korean
Reviewed
by Kathy Lehman in School Library Journal 4/1 (2007)
On Ockham,
with co-author Robert Martin (
On Augustine, with co-author Paul Thomson (
Translated by Albert Marencin Vydavatelstvo into
Slovak ISBN 80-88912-64-4
Reviewed by: Robert
P. Kennedy in Augustinian Studies
34:2 (2003)
Michael
Patzia in Teaching Philosophy 25:4 (2002)
John
Oldfield in Augustinus 47 (2002):
457-8.
Isabelle
Brunetiere in Revue de Jtudes
Augustiniennes 47:2 (2001): 406.
Scholarly
Peer Reviewed Articles
“William of Ockham” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007, http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ockham.htm.
“The Virtue of Playing Along,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 14:1 (Spring, 2007): 1-10.
“True Friendship and the Logic of Lying,” Journal of Value Inquiry, (January, 2007).
“Was There No Concept of Evolution in the Middle
Ages?: The Case of William of Ockham,” British Journal for the History of
Philosophy, 14:2 (Spring, 2006): 225-244.
“Where Is the Antichrist? A Review
Article of Behold the Antichrist, by
“Personhood and Free Will,” The Philosopher 92:2 (Autumn 2004): 11-13.
“Free Will and Ockham’s Razor: A Revival of the
Argument from Introspection,” Personhood,
ed. Heikki Ikäheimo et al., University of
Jyväskylä Publications in Philosophy 68 (2004): 99-105.
“Why the Liberty of Indifference is Worth Wanting:
Buridan’s Ass, Friendship, and Peter John Olivi,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 21:1 (January, 2004): 21-42.
“Saying ‘No’ to God: The Emergence of Metaphysical
Freedom,” Dalhousie Review 82:1 (Spring 2002): 153-170.
“Some Philosophical Reflections on the Coming of the
Antichrist,” Sophia 39 (Oct/Nov 2000): 79-103.
“Realism, Conventionalism, and William of Ockham,”
Proceedings of the World Congress in Philosophy II (August 1999): 207-216.
“Later Medieval Nominalism and the Politics of
Supposition,” Eidos XIV (January 1999): 29-50.
“There’s No Such Thing as Heresy and It’s a Good
Thing, Too: William of Ockham on Freedom of Speech,” Journal of Political
Philosophy (March 1998): 41‑52.
“Against a Straussian Interpretation of Marsilius of
Padua’s Poverty Thesis,” History of Philosophy Quarterly (July 1994): 269‑280.
Pedagogical
and Popular Articles
“Quantum
Physics and Ockham’s Eraser,” Science and
Spirit Magazine (forthcoming November/December, 2007).
“L.O.S.T. in Lost,” Lost and Philosophy, edited by Sharon M. Kaye (Blackwell, 2007),
pp.1-5.
“Mmmyez:
Stewie and the Seven Deadly Sins,” Family
Guy and Philosophy, edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Blackwell, 2007), pp.
74-86.
“The Running Life:
Getting In Touch With Your Inner Hunter Gatherer,” Running and Philosophy, edited by Michael Austin (Blackwell, 2007).
“Cosmic Sledding,” with co-author Robert Prisco, under
the pseudonym D.W. Ireland, The Dalhousie
Review 86:3 (Autumn 2006): 389-396.
“Dress Rehearsal For Life: Teaching Philosophy to High School Students” Analytic Teaching 26:1 (Spring 2006): 1-9.
“In the End it’s the Tail: Thomas Aquinas’s Fifth
Proof of the Existence of God,” with co-author Robert Prisco, Think (Summer 2005): 67-74.
“Could the
Universe be Infinitely Old? Thomas
Aquinas’
“Lassoing the Wind: Can the Doctrine of Analogy do the
Trick?” with co-author Nelson Foster, Dialogue
22 (2004): 3-6.
“Ockham’s Razor,” Think
4 (Summer 2003): 91-95.
“Buffy in the Buff: A Slayer’s Solution to Aristotle’s
Love Paradox,” with co-author Melissa Milavec in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and Philosophy, edited by James B. South (
“Is God the Source of Morality?” with co-author Harry
Gensler in God Matters, edited by Ray Martin and Christopher Bernard (
Book Reviews
Waiting for Antichrist, by Damian Thompson (forthcoming in Sophia, 2007).
Passions in
William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology, by Vesa Hirvonen, Journal of the
History of Philosophy 45:2 (2007): 330-332.
Expecting
Armageddon, edited by Jon R. Stone, Sophia 43:1 (May-June, 2004): 56-8.
Paulus
Venetus Logica Parva, edited by Alan
R. Perreiah, in History and Philosophy of
Logic 23 (2002): 304-306.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, edited by Eleonore Stump, in Philosophical Books 43:4
(2002): 300-301.
Philosophical
Cartoons
“Last Words Cartoon” in The Philosophers’ Magazine 28 (2004): 95.
“The Modern-Day
Buridan’s Ass” and “Descartes’ Matrix” in The
Philosophers’ Magazine 25 (2004): 23, and 50.
Papers
Presented at Academic Conferences:
“Philosophy
for Teens.” Urban Region Conference for Catholic Schools,
“John Carroll University & the Carroll-Cleveland
Philosophers’ Program.” in the session Philosophy
as Outreach, sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy,
American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting Eastern Division, Washington
D.C. (December 2006).
“Lust, Sport,
and the Will to Win.” International Association for the Philosophy of Sport.
Annual Conference,
“He Said, She Said”: Using Dialogue to Teach Beginning
Philosophy.” Invited Paper,
“The Good Life: Religion, Culture, or Biology?”
Conference on the Christian Worldview: Analysis,
Assessment & Development. University of
“Playing Along: Ockham, Kierkegaard, and the Demands
of True Friendship.” Society for Philosophy in a Contemporary World. Annual
Conference,
“Thinking Theater: Using Drama to Teach Philosophy to
High School Students.” American Association for Philosophy Teachers. Annual
Meeting in Conjunction with the Pacific Division of the APA,
“Somebodies-In-Particular: The Scenario Approach to Philosophy with High
School Students.” with Paul Thomson, 1st Global Conference Philosophy with
Children: Transdisciplinary Perspectives,
“Personhood and Free Will: A Revival of the Argument
for Introspection.” Social Sciences and Philosophy Conference,
“Was There No Concept of Evolution in the Middle
Ages?: The Case of William of Ockham.”
International Congress on Medieval Studies Annual Meeting,
“Can I Lie
while Saying that I am Lying?: William of Ockham and the Logic of Love.” The
Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy,
“Buridan’s Ass and Peter John Olivi.” American
Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Main Program,
“Buridan’s Ass and Peter John Olivi.” Patristic,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference Annual Meeting,
“A Problem on Peter John Olivi and the Background to
Buridan’s Ass.” Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy Annual Meeting,
“Buridan=s Ass:
Is there Wisdom in the Story?” International Society for Universal Dialogue
Fourth World Conference,
“The Multiple-Draft, Peer-Review Assignment: On-line
and Off.” Group Session of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers,
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting,
“Ockham's Nominalist Account of the Soul.” Atlantic
Region Philosophy Association Conference Annual Meeting,
“Russell, Strawson,
and William of Ockham.” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy,
“Realism,
Conventionalism, and William of Ockham.” International Medieval Congress Annual
Meeting,
“Russell, Strawson,
and William of Ockham.” Group Session of the Society for Realist/Antirealist
Discussion, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting,
Chicago (May 1998).
“Nominalism in Later
Medieval
“There’s No Such Thing
as Heresy (And It’s a Good Thing, Too): William of Ockham on Freedom of
Speech.” International Congress on Medieval Studies Annual Meeting,
“The Ideal of Rigor
Versus the Ideal of Skepticism: Formal and Informal Logic in the Philosophy
Curriculum.” Group Session of the Association for the Philosophy of Education,
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting,
“Gregory of
Commentaries on Papers Presented at Academic
Conferences:
“On Existence and the ens realissimum,” by Scott T. Davey, Ohio Philosophical Association
Annual Meeting,
“Why Incompatibilists Must Embrace a Principle of
Alternate Possibilities,” by Kevin Timpe, Central States Philosophy Association
Annual Meeting, Chicago Art Institute (October 2003)
“Kant on the Reciprocity
of Morality and Freedom,” by Kelly Coble, Northeast Ohio Philosophy Consortium,
“Impartiality and the
Conceivability Argument,” by Jonathan Lang,
“Parfit on Personal Identity: In Defense of Natural
Persons,” by Deborah Smith, Northeast Ohio Philosophy Consortium Conference,
“The Naked Baritone: Masculinities in the Music
Vernacular,” by Charlene Morton, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
Annual Conference,
Conference
Sessions Chaired:
“Aquinas’s Natural Law in Light of Evolution,” by
Steve Halady, North East Ohio Philosophy Consortium,
“Augustine’s Long Shadow,” International Congress on
Medieval Studies Annual Meeting,
“Rowe’s Argument from Freedom,” by Michael J. Almeida,
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Main Program, Cleveland
(May 2003).
“Defense of Vlastos on Egalitarianism,” by Richard
Keschner, Atlantic Region Philosophers Association,
“Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychology,” by
Deborah Nim,
Unpublished
Reviews for Publishers:
An Introduction to Philosophy through Film, for Longman
(February 2006)
Theories of Human Nature: An Introduction to
Philosophy, for
Philosophical Entrees and Philosophical Appetizers, by D. Jaquette,
for McGraw Hill Publishers (November 1998).
Introduction to Philosophy, Classic and Contemporary