Kansas City Kansas Community College

Dr. Tamela Ice

Dr. Tamela Ice

Location:  Henry M. Louis Building/Social and Behavioral Sciences - Room 2206
Telephone Number:  (913) 288-7321
Email:  Dr. Tamela Ice

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy - University of Kansas, 8/07
• Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies - University of Kansas, 5/04
• M.A. Philosophy - University of Kansas, 5/03
• B.A. Philosophy, Psychology - Southwest Missouri State University, 7/99

Teaching Experience

• Kansas City Kansas Community College
• Central Missouri State University
• University of Kansas

Publications [Books]

• Resolving the Paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Sexual Politics. University Press of America (May 28, 2009)

Publications [Articles]

• "Does Paneloux Lose Faith? Rethinking the Relationship Between Belief and Action in Albert Camus's 'The Plague'" (Auselgung, 4/07)
• All of the following have been published in Symposia: the online journal in philosophy: http://journal.ilovephilosophy.com

• Is Altruism Possible in Epicurean and Stoic Ethics? (07/08)
• "Estrangement and Alienation in Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'" (04/08)
• "How Might Camus Critique Fichte's Notion of God and the Religion of Joyful Right Action?" (03/08)
• Should the Practice of Promising Be Discarded?
• "Cross-Cultural Dilemmas in Abelard's Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian" (7/07)
• "Simone de Beauvoir's Challenge to Cultural Feminism and Post-Structuralism" (8/07)
• "Wittgenstein and Quine on the Problem of Intesionality" (9/07)
• "On Kierkegaard's Pascalian Wager" (9/07)
• "Plantinga's Criticism of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Existence of God." (1/08)

Memberships

• Society for Analytic Feminism
• American Philosophical Association
• The Hume Society
• North American Kant Society
• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
• Albert Camus Society
• North American Sartre Society
• Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology

Specific Areas of Interest

• History of Women in Philosophy
• Philosophy of Education
• Existentialism
• Social and Political Philosophy (specifically economic class oppression)
• Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Camus, Sartre, Ali Shariati
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophical Ideas in Literature
• Persian Philosophy
• Arabic Philosophy
• Philosophy of Language
• Metaethics
• Everything ...