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Winter 2013 Schedule
Mondays
12-1pm Office Hours
2-5pm PHL260W-WN110
Tuesdays
10-11am Office Hours
11-12pm PHL213W-WN110
Wednesdays
9-12pm PHL215W-WN160
1-2pm Office Hours
5-6pm Office Hours
6-9pm PHL215W-WN320
Thursdays
12-1pm Office Hours
2-5pm PHL213W-WN120
Nolen Gertz
Nolen Gertz, Instructor
Office: S-268
Email: nolengertz@delta.edu
Phone: (989) 686-9290
About Me: I am spending May 2013 as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton where, when not arguing against just war theory, I am working on a book tentatively titled Rethinking War: Responsibility, Suffering, and the Future of War (under contract with Palgrave). In conjunction with my attempt to reframe the problem of combatant suffering generally (and military suicide in particular) as a problem of "not feeling at home in the world" rather than PTSD, I'm currently working with Michael Bean in Delta's Veteran Services Office to start a Veterans' Center at Delta. I am also working with Alan LaFave of HHMFest to try to start a philosophy film series in the area.
You can find out more about my research here.
Education
- Ph.D., The New School for Social Research, 2012
- M.A., The New School for Social Research, 2007
- B.A., The George Washington University, 2003
Classes Taught
Winter 2013
- PHL215W Health Care Ethics (5 sections)
Academic Service
- Steering Committee Member, Global Peace Studies Program, Delta College
- Committee Member, Promoting Humanities Externally Team, Delta College
- Committee Member, Civic Integration Team, Delta College
- Reviewer, Ethics and Information Technology, Philosophy and Technology, Ethics & International Affairs
- Associate, Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security (CETMONS)
- Steering Group Member, Inter-Disciplinary’s 1st Global Conference, “Problems of Democracy”, Prague, Czech Republic (April 30-May 2, 2010)
Select Publications
Journal Articles
- “Unmanned Warfare: Psychological and Ethical Dimensions”, Humanities and Technology Review, vol. 30, pgs. 57-76 (Fall 2011)
- “On the Possibility of a Phenomenology of Light”, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, vol. 5, no. 1, pgs. 41-58 (Spring 2010)
Book Chapters
- “Who Do You Think You Are?”, “Who’s the Philosopher?”, in The Philosophy Shop: Ideas, Activities, and Questions to Get People, Young and Old, Thinking Philosophically, ed. P. Worley, Carmarthen: Crown House Publishing Limited, pgs. 103-105, 297-299 (Fall 2012)
- “On the Genealogy of a Rivalry”, in The Red Sox and Philosophy, ed. M. Macomber. Chicago: Open Court Press, pgs. 169-182 (Spring 2010)
Magazine Articles
- “Adventures in Formalism, or I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Going to Take it Some More”, Canon Magazine, Language & Culture Issue, pgs. 35-42 (Spring 2007)
Select Presentations
- “Combatants, Non-Combatants, and the Meaning of Citizenship”, at The Center for the Study of Citizenship’s Conference, “The Meaning of Citizenship”, at Wayne State University (March 21-23, 2013)
- “A New Approach to Military Professionalism: On the Need for ‘Soldier-Artists’”, at the 12th annual “Conversation on the Liberal Arts: War and Peace as Liberal Arts”, at the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, Westmont College (February 21-23, 2013)
- “Why All Students Should Become Artists: On J. Glenn Gray’s Philosophy of Education”, at the 28th Annual LAND Conference, Bay City, MI (February 13-15, 2013)
- "What is Just War Theory?", for Professor Jeffrey Dykhuizen's IHU120W Introduction to Global Peace Studies course, Delta College (October 9, 2012)
- “Duties, Distinctions, and the Dangers to Civil-Military Relations”, at the 2012 International Society for Military Ethics Conference, at the University of San Diego (January 24-27, 2012)
- “Technology and Suffering in War”, at The Society for Philosophy and Technology Biennial Conference, “Technology and Security”, at University of North Texas (May 26-29, 2011)
- Moderator, Post-Screening Discussion of “Human, All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche”, at The Rubin Museum of Art, New York (December 22, 2010)
- “Just and Unjust Killing”, at Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, at University of Edinburgh (July 2-4, 2009)
- “Censorship, Propaganda, and the Production of ‘Shell Shock’ in World War I”, at Inter-Disciplinary 5th Global Conference, “War, Virtual War & Human Security”, Budapest, Hungary (May 5-7, 2008)
- “Toward a Phenomenology of Light”, at Architecture and Phenomenology International Conference, at Technion I.I.T., Haifa, Israel (May 13-17, 2007)
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