This episode was originally recorded in 2019 with former UMM Professor Steve McFarlane Ph.D. and with funding from the Mellon foundation (details below). In this final episode of the series we sit down with Charles Hassinger to get a student’s perspective on some of the topics we have discussed with the faculty, plus we look at his passion for his major of choice: Sociology.

About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Learn more at mellon.org.

This episode was originally recorded in 2019 with former UMM Professor Steve McFarlane Ph.D. and with funding from the Mellon foundation (details below). On today's episode, we sit down with KK, who is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota Morris. She has expertise in human-computer interaction, educational technology, learning sciences and technology, and online communities.

About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Learn more at mellon.org.

This episode was originally recorded in 2019 with former UMM Professor Steve McFarlane Ph.D. and with funding from the Mellon foundation (details below). On today's episode we speak with Pierranna Garavaso P.h.D. (now retired) to discuss how she came to study Philosophy. We also discuss the ins and outs of how she teaches the subject to students. 

She has expertise in the following areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Frege, and Analytic Feminism.

Resources to learn more:

For broad audience:

• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (book)

In depth reading:

• The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism

About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Learn more at mellon.org.