Oscar Rivas (B.A 2014)

I graduated from IUB in 2014 and then I moved to Indianapolis IU McKinney for law school, where I graduated in 2017. I passed the July 2017 bar exam and was licensed in October 2017. I have worked at a small law firm in Indianapolis since 2010 and was made named partner in 2021. Our private practice focuses on helping immigrants in Indiana.

Soraj Hongladarom (Ph.D. 1991)

Soraj Hongladarom has been granted a major funding by the National Research Council of Thailand to investigate the ethics from artificial intelligence "from the ground up." The idea is that normative pronouncements on AI ethics should be based on the culture and historical tradition from which they spring. The three-year grant also includes funds for organizing workshops and a culminating international conference, as well as smaller grants for new faculty and graduate students.

Steve Blackburn (B.A. 1983)

I travelled from the UK to study for an M.A. in Philosophy 1981-83, enjoying the opportunity to study with lecturers including J Michael Dunn and Raymond Smullyan as well as playing soccer and making the most of the social scene.
I returned to the UK where I had a career in the Inland Revenue, initially working on new legislation and moving on to criminal investigation of international tax fraud which took me to many countries including the US. I am married with two sons and retired now in Yorkshire.

Malcom Peel (B.A 1957)

Philosophy & Classics double-major 1957 graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington reports that has had published a 75-page Coptic Gnostic text from the Nag Hammadi Coptic Library discovered in Upper Egypt about 1945. "The Teachings of Silvanus" is an early Christian text, not Gnostic (salvation is received not through faith but through revealed, secret knowledge), that most closely resembles Wisdom literture of the Hebrew Bible. Dr. Peel's translation, introduction, and commentary was published by E.J. Brill of Leiden, The Netherlands. The Nag Hammadi Library has been evaluated as valuable for illumination of the 2nd - 4th centuries of Christianity's development as the Dead Sea Scrolls (found in 1945 also) have been for late, pre-Christian Judaism. Dr. Peel holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (1966).

Sean T. Murphy (Ph.D. 2021)

In Fall 2023, I joined the Department of Languages and Philosophy at Southern Utah University as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track). I am presently still engaged in several projects on Schopenhauer's ethics and theory of agency, and am also at work on a few papers in aesthetics and moral philosophy.

I've got a couple of forthcoming articles:

• “Why Delight in Screamed Vocals? Emotional Hardcore and the Case Against Beautifying Pain”, British Journal of Aesthetics, forthcoming
• “Self-Knowledge and Reflection in Schopenhauer’s View of Agency”, Inquiry, forthcoming. 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2178029