Spring 2025

Section 4477 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings.

Section 5234 of RELS8
Buddhism -- : Jan 13 - May 14 2025

Section 5503 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings.

Section 5504 of PHIL5
Critical Thinking/Writing -- : Jan 17 - May 16 2025

Section 5505 of PHIL5
Critical Thinking/Writing -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.

Fall 2024

Section 0364 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 23 - Dec 13 2024

Section 1477 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 19 - Dec 13 2024
This section has no scheduled meetings.

Section 1482 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 19 - Dec 13 2024
This is a hybrid class with required in-person meetings. All tests will occur in person from 5:30-7:30pm on 10/3, 11/14 and 12/5 as well as a final exam from 5:30-7:30pm on 12/19. Alternative testing dates will be from 12:00-2:00pm on 10/2, 11/13, and 12/4 with an alternative final exam from 12:00-2:00pm on 12/18. The remainder of the class will be delivered asynchronously online. For more information, please contact the instructor Sarah Whylly at swhylly@santarosa.edu.

Section 1490 of PHIL3
Critical Thinking -- : Aug 19 - Dec 13 2024
This section has no scheduled meetings.

Section 2166 of PHIL11
Introduction to Asian Philosophy -- : Aug 20 - Dec 12 2024
All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.

No office hours

Office Hours:

Tuesdays: SR - Homework help sessions: 12-1:30/Office hours  1:30 - 4:30 pm 

Wednesdays: Petaluma 2 pm - 3 pm in PC 680 or in library.

Thursdays: SR  2-3 pm

 

  • PhD, ABD - Florida State University, Department of the Study of Religion, Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy specialization track
  • MA - Florida State University, Department of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science Program
  • BA - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy Department
Academic Experience

8/2013 -- Present -- Professor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Department of Philosophy, Humanities, and Religion

8/2012 -- 12/2015 - Professor, Tiffin University, Master of Humanities Online

7/2011 -- 8/2012 - Senior Grant Coordination Assistant to Director and Team Leads -- AANAPISI/TRIO grants, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA

6/2005 -- 8/2011 - History and Philosophy of Science Program (HPS) Coordinator, History and Philosophy of Science Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

1/2009 -- 5/2011 - Instructor, Religion Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

8/2007 -- 8/2009 - Instructor, Interdisciplinary Humanities Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

6/2009 -- 8/2009 -- Instructor, Philosophy and Humanities Department, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL

8/2008 -- 12/2008 - Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

6/2008 -- 8/2008 -- Instructor, Philosophy and Humanities Department, Department, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL

  • Florida State University, 2004 - 2011, MA in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science & PhD, ABD in Religion, Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy track
  • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2001 - 2004: BA in Philosophy, minor in History and Women's Studies
  • Keystone College: 2000-2001 Computer Science

 

Professional Areas of Interest
  • 19th - 20th century Buddhism in America
  • Japanese Buddhism
  • Epistemology 
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Indian Religious traditions
  • Sanskrit literature
Professional Involvement and Community Service

College Service

  • Academic Senate 2017-2022
    • District Online Committee
    • Faculty Equivalency Committee
  • AFA Executive Council 2017-2022
  • AFA Publications Coordinator 2017-2018
Presentations and Publications

Publications:

"Atheism in Ancient Japan", Cambridge Companion on Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, Fall 2021

"Review: Buddhism and Biology" by David Barash, Quarterly Review of Biology, Spring 2015

"Atheism in Modern Japan", Oxford Handbook on Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, 2014

"Idealism"&"Logic" entries, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Edited by K.T.S. Sarao and Arvind Sharma, 2012

"Conceptual Space for Julia Kristeva: Mary Douglas on Women, Bodies, and Anxiety", Research and Criticism, Fall 2010

"Nietzsche and Feminism", Janua Sophia, Volume VI, Spring 2004


Presentations:

"Atheism in Modern Japan", 2013 Oxford Handbook on Atheism Workshop, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

"Changing Faces of Tannisho", 2012 Graduate Theological Union Graduate Student Conference March 16th 2012, Berkeley, CA

Guest lecturer, World Religions Course, Tallahassee Community College (Fall 2010) Topic: "Tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism"

"What's Faith Got to Do With it?: An Examination of the Concept of Faith in Japanese Pure Land", 2010 Religion Symposium on February 18-21st 2010, Tallahassee FL

"Pragmatic Approaches to Developing Social Ethics in Japanese Zen Buddhism", 2009 HPS Brown Bag Lunch Presentation with roundtable discussion on September 15th 2009, Tallahassee, FL

"A Pragmatic Look at Word and Image", presented at the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy 4th Annual Topics of Diversity Conference on February 22nd -- 23rd 2008, Tallahassee, FL

"The Science of Hysteria and Jean Martin Charcot", presented at the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Conference on July 25th - 29th 2007, Exeter, England

"Nietzsche and Feminism", presented at the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy 2nd Annual Topics of Diversity Conference on March 31 & April 1st, 2006, Tallahassee, FL