{"id":47331,"date":"2023-09-14T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=47331"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:28","slug":"mike-vanquickenborne-3","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/mike-vanquickenborne-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike VanQuickenborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike VanQuickenborne<\/strong> (he\/him) is a tenured philosophy instructor at Everett Community College and has taught philosophy at a variety of colleges on both sides of the Cascade crest. Along with a slate of introductory philosophy courses, he has taught \u201cPhilosophy in the Cinema\u201d since 2000. 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