Announcements
Spring 2012 Dunbar Fellows Announced! See "Fellowships" for more details.
Nick Bostrom will speak as this year's Ricardo P. Quinones Lecturer on "Superintelligence: The Machine Intelligence Revolution." The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 14, in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. For more details see the lecture link at left.
Also upcoming: Ray Kurzweil will speak Wednesday, March 7 in the Athenaeum as part of Gould's Technology and Humanity Series. Further details to come.
Gould Goes to the Theater will return for the 2012 Spring Semester. The performance this time around will be Green Day’s American Idiot at the Ahmanson Theater on Tuesday, April 3. Tickets will again be $5. Stay tuned for more details.
Meet Interim Director Amy Kind
The Gould Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Interim Director Amy Kind, Associate Professor in Philosophy.
Dr. Kind will take the helm in academic year 2011-2011 for Dr. Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature. Professor Faggen has been awarded a Guggenheim grant to pursue his work on Ken Kesey and Robert Frost and will be on sabbatical this year.
Below are some brief biographical details about Professor Kind, but please feel free to introduce yourself as we make welcome for her new endeavor in the coming year. She will maintain her office in Kravis 282, and all Gould related inquires should be directed to her extension there (see more under Contact Us).
Having received her AB from Amherst College and her PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, Amy Kind joined the CMC faculty in 1997. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and serves as Chair of the Philosophy Department. From 2005-2008, she served as Associate Dean of the Faculty. This year, in addition to serving as Interim Director of the Gould Center, she is also the Program Committee Chair for the APA Pacific Division.
Her research focuses mainly on issues in the philosophy of mind relating to the imagination and to consciousness, and her work has appeared in such leading philosophical journals as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Philosophical Quarterly. She is currently at work on a textbook entitled Persons and Personal Identity, due to be published by Polity Press in 2013.
