Contributor Bios

contributor bios

MARK BEATTIE is a student in the Doctoral Program for Leadership Studies. He is also an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Business Administration.

BEN YERDEN is currently a sophomore Poli Sci student hailing from Longmont, Colorado.He loves writing as both an outlet and an activity that he uses to express his opinions on politics, religion, philosophy and nature. Music is another of his passions, as he is a drummer in a metal band back home.

MARY FONTANA thinks that if the philosophers would only talk to the biologists, the field of Environmental Ethics would be a lot better off. She likes animals just fine, but she prefers tofu, particularly in peanut sauce.

ERIC KINCANON joined the Physics Department in 1987. His teaching has included a physics core science course on time and the upper division philosophy course "Philosophy of Time."

IAIN BERNHOFT, a Junior, is an English and Philosophy major. He is currently studying the former at Oxford University. He enjoys writing, and harbors fond hopes that one day someone will pay him to do it.

LEAH ROURKE is graduating this spring and would like to thank all of her professors who encouraged creative scholarly writing: you know who you are. And to Mr. Washington, may you R.I.P.

BJ KURLE thanks espresso and manic energy for receiving her MA in philosophy from Gonzaga in 2002. She has since been teaching philosophy at both GU and Spokane Falls and persisting in her hunt for deceptional strategies, exposing them in her writing and teaching. Some day soon, she'll be back on the other side of the desk, completing her Ph. D, but until such a time, she plans to continue tormenting unsuspecting undergrads with the disturbing realization that philosophy is everywhere, inescapable, and even a bit addictive.