April 19, 2005
Contact: Gordon Ovenshine (727) 738-4854; gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
TWO SRU PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS GARNER
ACADEMIC HONORS,
INCLUDING FIRST PRIZE AT STATE SYSTEM
PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.-- For his essay on German philosopher
Immanuel Kant, Slippery Rock University senior Brian Skibo received
the $125 first prize at the 18th Pennsylvania State
System of Higher Education Interdisciplinary Association for
Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference, held recently at
Mansfield University.
Skibo, a
philosophy major from Hermitage, presented a paper titled “An
Analysis in Kant: How the World is Already Synthesized Through
Systems.”
“I chose this topic in order to lay a
foundation for future studies in the area of ecological
psychology,” said Skibo, who plans to attend the University
of Connecticut to pursue a master’s degree in ecological
psychology.
Mary A. "Molly"
McGuigan of Franklin Park, an SRU philosophy minor, wrote a paper
on comedy in philosophy that has been accepted for the competitive
Goucher College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on April 30,
where she'll present her work alongside students from Williams and
Amherst colleges.
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