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Aklujkar

Ashok

Arts

Sanskrit, Marathi

India, Language, Philosophy

Sanskrit language and literature, philosophy, pedagogy

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Anderson

Scott

Arts

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Ethics, Philosophy, Sex/Sexuality, Women's Issues

philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, coercion, privacy, women's issues, feminism, autonomy, prostitution, sexual harassment, sexual assault

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Bartha

Paul

Arts

French; Spanish; Italian

Philosophy

logic; probability; analogical reasoning

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Beasley-Murray

Jon

Arts

Spanish

Constitutional Issues, Culture, Film, History, Human Rights, Internet, Language, Multiculturalism, Philosophy, Politics, South America, Teaching, Technology, Third World, Tourism

Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia.

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Belton

Robert

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Advertising, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Canada, Censorship, Culture, Education, Europe, Film, Fine Arts, Literacy, Media, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Teaching, Television, Theatre, Women's Issues

art criticism, art history, art theory, computer music, creativity and cognition, cultural studies, experimental music, film studies, popular music, philosophy, skepticism

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Braund

Susanna

Arts

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Classical Studies, Culture, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Theatre, Women's Issues

Latin literature, Roman culture, epic poetry, satire, drama, emotions, later reception of ancient literature and culture, myth, modern poetry, translation

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Gabora

Liane

Barber School of Arts and Sciences

French

Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Human Behavior, Philosophy, Psychology

adaptation, cognition, creativity, computer models of creativity, computer models of cultural evolution, culture, evolution, evolutionary computation, innovation, insight, invention, social computing, worldviews

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Griffin

Michael

Arts

Ancient Greek, Latin

Classical Studies, Philosophy

Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic

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Ho

Anita

College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Cantonese

Ethics, Human Rights, Philosophy

Clinical Ethics, Research Ethics (Domestic and International), Bioethics, Culture and Health Care, Health Care Resource Allocation, End-of-Life Care

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Irvine

Andrew

Arts

-

Philosophy, Politics

Civil liberties, Civil rights, Bertrand Russell

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McDonald

Michael

Applied Ethics, Centre for

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Business, Ethics, Health Care, Philosophy, Politics

professional ethics; in business; bioethics, ethics of research, political ethics, accounting ethics

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Mole

Christopher

Arts

-

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind, Attention, Cognitive Systems

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Overmyer

Daniel

Arts

Mandarin

China, Philosophy, Religion

Chinese religions

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Robinson

John

Graduate Studies

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Communications, Community Planning, Computers in Education, Environment, International Studies, Internet, Natural Resources, Philosophy, Pollution, Psychology, Science, Technology, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Sustainability, Olympics

sustainable development, sustainability, climate change, scenarios, energy policy, futures studies, science / policy studies

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Ryder

Dan

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Abortion, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Death, Ethics, Philosophy, Religion

mind-body problem, representation, consciousness, cerebral cortex, learning, neural networks, critical thinking, atheism, death

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Soussloff

Catherine

Arts

French, Italian

Europe, Fine Arts, History, Philosophy

Art, Art History, European Art, Performance Art, Performance Studies, Art Theory, Aesthetics

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Stackhouse

John G.

Regent College

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Canada, Culture, Media, Multiculturalism, Philosophy, Religion, United States

History of Religion; contemporary religion; politics and religion; religion and culture; multiculturalism and religion; Culture. Religion and politics; religion and entertainment; pop culture; religion and sex; religion and rights; Media. religion and news media; Religion and Christianity. Canadian Religion; World Religion, Canada and US; Evangelism and Fundamentalism; Religion in America

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Stainton

Tim

Arts

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Disabled Persons, Ethics, Human Rights, Mental Health, Philosophy

Developmental Disability, Disability, Social Policy, History of Developmental Disability, Philosophy of Welfare

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Vatikiotis-Bateson

Eric

Arts

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Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Communications, Culture, Engineering, Human Behavior, Japan, Language, Philosophy, Robots, Science, Speech Sciences, Students, Telecommunications, United States

Cognitive Systems, Linguistics, Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Physical and computational modeling of speech motor control, Talking heads animation, Language and Gesture, Communicating systems

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Wilson

Catherine

Arts

German

Ethics, Philosophy

general ethics; social and political philosophy; history of philosophy; philosophy of science; philosophy of biology

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