Sponsored Conferences
The
Joint Services Conference on Professional
Ethics is hosted annually by the United States Air Force Academy and the
United States Military Academy.
West Point hosted the annual
Hastings Conference this year at the Hotel Thayer. This annual event,
which alternates in location between West Point and the
Hastings Center, drew more than
forty participants. Participants this year discussed the "Ethics of
Interrogation."
Faculty Participation
Members of our faculty have attended and presented at
numerous conferences in the fields of literature, philosophy and ethics.
Brown, John C. MAJ. “From Generals to
Degenerates: Undermining the Image of
Officers in Vietnam War
Films,” at the War in Film, Television, and History
Conference in Dallas,
Texas (12 NOV 2004).
Burkhardt, Todd MAJ. Attended the Joint Services Conference on
Professional
Ethics (JSCOPE) in Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
Christrup, Karen LTC. Coached a team
of West Point cadets to a tie for first place in
Loyola Marymount
University's 10th Annual Business Ethics Fortnight at The
Center for Ethics and
Business in Los Angeles, California (14-17 APR 05).
---. Attended the Joint Services Conference
on Professional
Ethics (JSCOPE) in Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
Cornwell, William Prof. Led the Philosophy Forum trip section to
the Joint Services
Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) in
Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN
05).
---. “Can
Fregean Senses Save the Ethical Naturalist from Moore’s Open-Question
Argument?” presented at the American Society for
Value Inquiry Session in
conjunction with the American Philosophical
Association Central Division
Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (30 APR 05).
---. Chaired the
“Subjectivism and Going Haywire” panel at the American Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting in Chicago,
Illinois (30 APR 05).
---. Chaired the “Values and
Valuing” panel at the American Society for Value Inquiry
Session in conjunction with the American
Philosophical Association Central
Division Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (28 APR 05).
---. “Is Perception
Inferential?” at the 27th International
Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria
(8-14 August 2004).
Published in Experience and Analysis: Papers
of the 27th International
Wittgenstein Symposium
(AUG 04), ed. Johann Christian Marek and Maria
Elisabeth Reicher.
---. “Some Problems with Peter Abelard’s
Moral Theory,” at the
International Conference
on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham
University (22-24 OCT 04).
---. “The Burden of
Autonomy: Noncombatant Immunity and Humanitarian
Intervention,” at the University of Hull (England)
Conference on Jus In Bello (27-
28 SEP 04).
Gibson, Robert LTC. "A Concise Way to Assess Education Leaders,”
accepted on 2
FEB 05 for publication in American School Board
Journal (publication date to be
determined).
---.
Served as guest panelist with MAJ Zoltan Krompecher at a
creative writing
seminar at Southern Connecticut State University in
New Haven, CT (20 APR
05).
Harper, David MAJ.
“‘Be Lowly Wise:’ Milton and the Right to
Knowledge,” accepted
for presentation at the 8th
International Milton Symposium in Grenoble, France (7-11 JUN 05).
---.
“Dying to be Free: The Emergence of ‘American Militant Buddhism’ in Popular
Culture,” coauthored with
Department of English alumnus MAJ Richard Anderson.
Accepted for future
publication in Finding the Ox: Buddhism and American Culture,
State University of New
York Press.
Honaker, Norma CPT. Attended the
“Negotiating Nineteenth-Century Spaces”
graduate conference at the University of South
Carolina in Columbia, SC (11-12
MAR 05).
Jaskowiec, Michael MAJ. Attended the Joint Services Conference on
Professional
Ethics (JSCOPE) in Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
---.
Served as a distinguished panelist for a panel
discussion on “The Moral Dimensions
of Coercion in
Interrogation” at the Hastings Conference (6 MAY 05).
---. See Zuck.
Knotts, Lester LTC.
Presented “Learning in a Combat Environment” with MAJ Zoltan
Krompecher at the English Language Arts
Conference at Michigan State
University in East Lansing, MI (16 APR 05).
Krompecher, Zoltan MAJ.
Interviewed 17 FEB 05 by CBS News for “The War in
Their Words,” during which he spoke about his war
experience and his
contribution to the National Endowment for the Arts’s
“Operation Homecoming.”
Segment aired 24 FEB 05 on CBS.
---. See Gibson.
---. See Knotts.
Kubik, Christian MAJ.
Co-editor and author with Dr. Frederick Kagan (USMA
D/History) of Leaders in War: West Point
Remembers the 1991 Gulf War.
Published 10 JAN 05 by Frank Cass as part of the
Cass Military Studies Series.
McGowan, Tony Prof.
"African American Voice in Melville and Douglass," presented
at the Melville and Douglass Sesquicentennial
Celebration in New Bedford,
Massachusetts (22-26 JUN 05).
---. “Literary
Landscapes,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture
Association in Buffalo, New York (14 OCT 04). Does
not appear in first quarter
report.
---. “West Point and
the Persistence of the Banking Model,” with CPT William Rice at
the Popular Culture Association in the South Conference,
New Orleans (25
SEP 04).
Rice, William MAJ.
Presented “Virilio’s Self-fulfilling Prophecy: Dromocracy and
Total War,” at The Dromocratic Condition:
Contemporary Cultures of
Acceleration Conference at the University of
Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne,
England (12-13 MAR 05).
---.
See McGowan.
Sabatos, Terri Prof.,
with LTC Jeffrey Wilson.
"Reclaiming Duty, Honor, Country:
WEST POINT and America in
the 1950s," at the Third Biennial Conference on
War in Film, Television,
and History in Dallas, Texas (11-14 NOV 04).
Samet, Elizabeth Prof.
Review of Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and
Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military
Culture, by Carol Burke. Armed
Forces & Society 31.2 (Winter 2005): 315-318.
---. “Great Men
and Embryo-Caesars: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Figure in
Arms,” in Thomas
Jefferson’s Military Academy: Founding West Point, ed.
Robert M. S. McDonald
(University of Virginia Press, 2004).
Saxon, Michael MAJ.
Attended the Joint Services Conference on Professional
Ethics (JSCOPE) in Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
---. Coached the USMA Ethics Bowl team at
the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl
competition during the Association of Practical and
Professional Ethics
Conference in San Antonio, TX (23-26 FEB 05).
Schoonhoven, Richard
Prof. "Causation and Unification" at the Pacific Division
meetings of the American Philosophical Association
in San Francisco (23-27
MAR 05).
---. Attended the Joint Services Conference
on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) in
Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
---. Attended the biannual meeting of the
Philosophy of Science Association in Austin,
Texas, (18-21 NOV 04).
---.
“Case Study on Coerced Medical Treatment of an Enemy
Prisoner of
War in the Interests of
National Security,” written with COL Daniel Zupan and
Prof. Gary Solis (USMA
D/Law). Published in the Hastings Center Report
(November-December
2004).
Stankow-Mercer, Naomi MAJ. “Echoes of
‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ in The Gate to
Women’s Country,”
at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Conference in
San Diego, CA (23-26 MAR 05).
Tramel, Peter Prof. "Moral Epistemology,"
published in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
(JAN-MAR 05).
---. Presented "Comments on Walter
Sinnott-Armstrong's 'Reflections on Reflection in
Robert Audi's Moral Intuitionism'" at a conference
entitled "Rationality and the
Good" at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend,
Indiana (9 APR 05).
---. Served as a
distinguished panelist for a panel discussion on “The Moral Dimensions
of Coercion in
Interrogation” at the Hastings Conference (6 MAY 05).
Tully, Robert
Prof. Led the department’s sixteen-session Wittgenstein Seminar at West
Point, New York
(SEP 04-APR 05).
Veale, Thomas MAJ.
Attended the New Literacies Conference at
the University of
Kansas in Lawrence,
Kansas (3-5 FEB 05).
---.
Review of The Conscious Reader, 9th edition. To be published
by Pearson-Longman
in summer 2006.
---.
Review of The New McGraw-Hill Handbook. To be published January 2006.
Westhusing, Theodore LTC. “The American Warrior: Winning the
Nation’s Wars, for
‘This We Will Defend.’” Presented at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis in
April 2004, and tentatively accepted for publication
in a Cambridge University
Press volume of conference proceedings in the summer
of 2005.
Wilson, Jeffrey LTC.
“Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethic in Professional Military
Education,” at the University of Hull (England)
Conference on Jus In Bello (27-
28 SEP 04).
---.
See Sabatos.
Zuck, Jesse MAJ. “Preemption, Uncertainty &
Jus ad Bellum in Operation Iraqi
Freedom: A Study of the Just Cause Criterion.”
Presented by MAJ Michael
Jaskowiec at the Joint Services Conference on
Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) in
Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
Zupan, Daniel COL. Attended the Joint
Services Conference on Professional
Ethics (JSCOPE) in Washington, D.C. (26-28 JAN 05).
---.
“Just War Theory, Law Enforcement, and Terrorism: A Reflective Equilibrium,” at
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Auburn University (13 OCT
04).
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“Moral Education: A Cautionary Tale,” at Auburn University (14 OCT 04).
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“Professional Ethics as Ethics of Leading,” presented at the Gordon
Sherman
Lecture, sponsored by the MPA program at Auburn
University in Auburn,
Alabama (22 APR 05).
---. See Schoonhoven.
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