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Have you ever wondered what your professors have been working on [and still like], and what other books they have found inspiring? See below for a few answers [we'll add more as they come in]. Where available and [thus] possible, a permalink of the Fresno State Library has been added.  

From her own writings, Professor Anagnostopoulos thinks you might benefit from reading the following:

  • Anagnostopoulos, M. (2006). "The Divided Soul and the Desire for Good in Plato's Republic," in: Santas, G. (ed). The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic. Malden, MA / Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 166-188.

As for articles that display good writing, she recommends these:

  

Professor Cushing recommends the following two articles:

 

Professor Cusick recommends the following two articles:

The latter article is particularly noteworthy as this is the article in which the Last Straw Fallacy gets its name.

Professor Fiala has a number of recommendations. The following are books that are widely cited:

Here are two recent (2024) journal articles with links:

Finally, Professor Fiala also has two entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [SEP] that he would like you to consider - because he wrote them, but really also because he thinks [like many of us] that the SEP is anyway a great resource for you to be familiar with:

Professor Howard thinks that the following two recent items might be of interest to you:

Professor Keyser recommends that you take a look at his research on his website: https://vkeyser.com/

As for a piece that has inspired him, he recommends this:

  • Morrison, Margaret (2014). Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations. New York, US: Oxford University Press.

Professor Maldonado recommends the following two articles:

  • Maldonado, Robert D. (1995 [1997]). "Reading Malinche Reading Ruth: Toward a Hermeneutics of Betrayal," Semeia 72, 91-109. 
  • Maldonado, Robert D. (2016). “Reading Others as the Subject(s) of Biblical Narrative,” The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative, edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 434–443. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.37

Among his own articles, Professor Rocha especially wishes to recommend the following:

A reading that he has found inspiring is Immanuel Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason. Here is the Fresno State Library permanent link to the book: https://csu-fresnostate.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CALS_UFR/3koikd/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC4991257   

By the way, if you want to find more of his publications [or those of your other philosophy professors], philpapers.org is a great resource to find them: https://philpapers.org/s/James%20Rocha  

Professor Rosenhagen thinks you might like the following articles:

  • Rosenhagen, Raja (2023). "Viśiṣṭādvaitic Panentheism and the Liberating Function of Love in Weil, Murdoch, and Rāmānuja," in: Benedikt Paul Göcke & Swami Medhananda (eds.). Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought: Cosmopolitan Interventions. Routledge, 60-92. https://csu-fresnostate.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CALS_UFR/3koikd/cdi_unpaywall_primary_10_4324_9781003301431_4
  • Rosenhagen, T. Raja (2019). "Toward Virtue: Moral Progress through Love, Just Attention, and Friendship," in: Ingolf U. Dalferth & Trevor W. Kimball (eds.). Love and Justice: Consonance or Dissonance? Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2016. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 217-239.

Unfortunately, the latter is a bit harder to get [the Fresno State Library doesn't have it]. So here is an alternative paper [in the area of analytic philosophy of perception]: 

If, for some reason, you read [or need to practice your] German and also want to learn more about how to think about polyamorous relationships, the following might be just what you need at your bedside table:

Finally, here are two books that he has found inspiring and that he keeps revisiting:

  • Murdoch, Iris (2001). The Sovereignty of Good. 2nd edition. Routledge.
  • Gupta, Anil (2019). Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry. Harvard University Press.

Professor Tais, asked which of his papers he would love you to read, recommends the following two:

The following is a book that he finds inspiring:

Professor Winant has the following recommendation for you:

  • Winant, T. R. (2007). "The Portability of Roots: Analytical Tools for Diasporaphiles," in: Hewitt, N. & D. Geary (eds.). Diaspora (s): Movements and Cultures. Nottingham, England: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 197-206.

Now, this text is very hard to get, but since Professor Winant owns the copyright, she is happy to make the file available for you.

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