MSU Moorhead Philosophy Department

Faculty

Marilea Bramer (Ph.D. University
of Minnesota)

Assistant Professor

Joined the department in 2009. Specializes in Ethics, Kantian Moral Theory, and Feminist Philosophy. Other teaching and research interests include Social and Political Philosophy, and Business Ethics..

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Randy Cagle (Ph.D. University of Memphis)

Associate Professor

Joined the department in 2003. Specializes in Kant, Continental Philosophy, and Political Philosophy. Recently edited an issue of the online journal Essays in Philosophy concerning Liberalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism.

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Konrad Czynski (Ph.D. Columbia University)

Associate Professor

Joined the university in 1991. Joined the department in 2004. Teaches World Religions and Humanities courses.

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Theodore Gracyk (Ph.D. University of California, Davis)

Professor

Joined the department in 1986. Specializes in philosophy of art, Kant, Eighteenth Century philosophy, and cultural theory. Also teaches applied ethics and interdisciplinary courses. Published three books on aesthetics and popular music, as well as numerous articles.
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http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/
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Chang-Seong Hong (Ph.D. Brown University)

Associate Professor.
Joined the department in 1999. Specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Also teaches Anglo-American analytic philosophy, symbolic logic, Asian philosophy, practical reasoning, and introduction to Western philosophy. Published "Natural Kinds and the Identity of Property," "Autonomy with Causal Reduction," and other articles.
cshong@mnstate.edu
http://www.mnstate.edu/hong/

Philip Mouch (Ph.D. University of Rochester)

Assistant Professor

Joined the department in 2000. Specializes in History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Business Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion.

mouch@mnstate.edu
http://www.mnstate.edu/mouch/

Emeritus Faculty

Mark Chekola (Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Professor Emeritus.

Joined the department in 1969 and retired in 2005. Specializes in Ancient Philosophy and Ethics.

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http://www.mnstate.edu/chekola

Arnold Johanson (Ph.D. Yale University)

Professor Emeritus

A native of Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Joined the department in 1966 and retired in 1999. Specializes in philosophy of religion. Dr. Johanson was three times chairperson of the Philosophy Department. He and his wife Alice retired to Durham, North Carolina. He recently taught a course "Baseball & Philosophy" for the Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University. ajohan@juno.com

David Myers (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)

Professor Emeritus.

Joined the department in 1972 and retired in 2004. Specializes in    ethics,  philosophy of religion, Marx and Nietzsche. Published New Soviet Thinking (Temple  University Press, 1990), Between Marx and Nietzsche (University  Press of America, 1986), and articles on Marx, ethics, and  problem of evil in a number of philosophical journals. Winner of the Academic Affairs Council Teaching Excellence Award, MSUM, 2003.
myers@mnstate.edu