Minerva Ahumada Torres has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. Her research covers areas such as Narrative Ethics (especially the way in which moral phenomena are always presented as stories in medias res), Social and Political Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Epistemology and the interstice between Philosophy and Literature. She teaches Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics.

Vera Albrecht received her M.A. in Indology, Classics, and Philosophy from Albertus Magnus Universität Köln, Cologne, Germany, and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate Center (CUNY). Her areas of specialization include Metaphysics and Object Theory, Philosophy of Language and Mind, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Political Philosophy. She teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Aesthetics, and the interdisciplinary cluster “Constructing Gender.”

He received his PhD from Fordham University, New York, MA from Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy and BA from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also spent one year as a visiting scholar at the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He specializes in early modern philosophy, but he is also interested in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics, and African philosophy. Before coming to the City University of New York, he taught at Fordham University.

Aaron Rizzieri is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at LAGCC. He received his Ph. D from Arizona State University and specializes in epistemology, bioethics, and the philosophy of religion. Aaron has recently published articles in Philosophical Studies and Philosophy, Humanities, and Medicine.

Gary Richmond has lectured in critical and creative thinking as well as in music theory at NYU and Cooper-Union, and has guest lectured in these disciplines in the USA and abroad. He has been teaching in LaGuardia’s Humanities Department in two divisions (Philosophy and Speech Communication) for over two decades. Here he is also actively involved in the work of The Center for Teaching and Learning where, for example, he co-developed and co-led faculty development seminars in information literacy, learning communities, and Web 2.0 technologies supporting contemporary pedagogies. His primary research interest is philosophical pragmatism as it relates to inquiry, democracy, and the Web, and he has written a number of papers on Peircean pragmatism and semiotics as it concerns these and related topics. In recent years he has been invited to speak at workshops and other events in conjunction with international conferences. In 2007 he presented the keynote address at a joint session of international conferences on conceptual structures (ICCS) and organizational semiotics (ICOS) in Sheffield, UK. He holds a B.Mus. degree from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), an M.A. from Hunter College (NYC), and has done extensive post graduate work at NYU.

(Ph.D. Duke University, 2008) specializes in Philosophy of Religion and 20th Century & Contemporary Continental Philosophy. He teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Moral Issues, and Philosophy of Religion. His articles appear in various journals, including Symposium, Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Substance.

 

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