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     Dr. Brient received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1995 and taught at Yale University and Boston College before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia in 2000.     Her theoretical grounding is in continental philosophy and the history of western philosophy. Her primary interests lie in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy (especially German), late medieval mysticism and Neoplatonism…

Richard Dien Winfield (PhD Yale) is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. To view syllabi from Richard Dien Winfield's current courses. To view a list of Richard Dien Winfield's publications.      

Edward Halper,  Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is interested in the classical problems of metaphysics.  Much of his work has been on ancient philosophy (he has just completed a three volume study of Aristotle's Metaphysics), but he also works on nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Hegel), medieval philosophy, and metaphysics. Halper came to…

Melissa Seymour Fahmy (Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington) has a primary research interest in Kantian ethics with particular focus on the duties of love and respect, as well as the intersection of morality and happiness.  Dr. Fahmy also has research and teaching interests in biomedical ethics especially with regard to the ethics of assisted reproduction.  Her paper, “Procreative Responsibility in Assisted and Collaborated…

Yuri Balashov (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) has a background in physics as well as philosophy. He is currently working on a new interdisciplinary research project at the interface of philosophy of language, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. His goal is to explore the uneasy, complicated relationship between human and machine translation. Dr. Balashov's hobbies include (serious) music and…