Class of 2009:

What some of them are doing after graduation. If you have not yet responded, you can send an update with a picture to Sandy Saari (ssaari@carleton.edu)!

Karen Louise Campbell 

I'm currently teaching 11th grade math in Houston, TX via Teach for America.  Teaching certainly isn't dull, and 11th graders certainly aren't as mature as one might think.  Not enough free time to philosophize yet, but the summer should be good for that...perhaps head over a few miles to Rice and debate with Martha about something super deep.  It's strange having it be 70 degrees mid-November...make one long for frigid Carleton.

Jacob Hilty

 I am currently in a Taught MSc (Master of Sciences) program at University of Edinburgh, studying philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It is a one year program, and I am also re-applying to Phd programs right now.  This program is good so far, it has a strong focus on embodied and embedded cognition, which for those who remember my comps, I am not a huge supporter of, however, I do think that interacting with a department that has a different view then my own is really helpful.

Hannah Weinstein

Through the Jewish Americorp program (called AVODAH), I have a job in New York City as a community organizer with the non-profit Tenants & Neighbors.  We help tenants in affordable housing organize themselves in order to preserve the low rents in their buildings.  I work all over New York state, but am most involved with tenants in Harlem and the Bronx.  I live in Brooklyn, and all current and former Carleton philosophy majors are welcome  to crash on my couch.

Martha Perez

I'm currently enrolled in the Ph. D program at Rice University.  I'm talking classes which include: a Kant Seminar, Contemporary Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology, and Mathematical Logic.  Recent topics I've been working on include, empathy and the altruism-egoism debate, a neurological model of free will, and Kant and the problem of other minds.  I'm starting to explore doing my own experimental philosophy designs, two possible topics are gender biases in intuitions about trolley problems and intuitions about ontology.  My major focuses include Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, and Metaethics.  I'm also pretty competent in the experimental philosophy literature.  Feel free to contact me regarding graduate school in general and any focused questions regarding anything from causation to phenomenology. My e-mail: Martha.R.Perez@rice.edu