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Awards,
Fellowships
and Honors:
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- B.A. with Highest
Distinction, Northwestern, 1968
- Phi Beta Kappa,
Northwestern, 1968
- Graduated with Honors
in Philosophy, Northwestern, 1968
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow,
1968
- N.D.E.A Fellowship,
University of Rochester, 1968-1971
- Woodrow Wilson
Dissertation Fellowship, 1971-1972
- College of Arts and
Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, FSU, 1990
- University Teaching
Incentive Program Award, FSU, 1994
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Positions:
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- Associate Professor,
FSU, Fall, 1977-present
- Assistant Professor,
FSU, Fall, 1972-Spring, 1977
- Instructor, Summer
Session, University of Rochester, 1972
- Teaching Assistant,
University of Rochester, Fall, 1969; Spring, 1970; Fall, 1970
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Publications:
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Articles:
- "Hume's
Third Cause," forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Research.
- "Mirroring
Spinoza's Mind," to appear in an anthology on Spinoza, edited by
John Biro and Olli Koistinen, and published by Oxford University Press,
2000.
- "Possessiveness
and Embodiment: What Thoreau Didn't Know," International Journal
of Applied Philosophy, 12 (1998): 187-201.
- "A
Theological Escape from the Cartesian Circle?," International
Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (1997): 41-59.
- "Extended
Acts," Philosophia, Volume 24, Nos. 3-4, (December, 1995):
253-270.
- "The Examined
Life," Metaphilosophy, 23 (1992): 159-171.
- "Liberty,
Autonomy, Toleration," Philosophical Papers, 15 (1986):
185-196.
- "Kantian Freedom
and the Possibility of the Critical Philosophy," Idealistic
Studies, 13 (1983): 85-109.
- "The Irony of the
Self Harm Principle," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 63
(1982): 381-391.
- "Death and
Evil," The Philosophical Forum, 11 (1980): 193-211.
- "Human
Persistence Through Time," The New Scholasticism, 51 (1977):
162-181.
- "Pascal's Wager:
The First Argument," International Journal for Philosophy of
Religion, 7 (1976): 348-368.
- "Power and
Fate," The New Scholasticism, 49 (1975): 451-466.
- "Pascal's Wager:
The Second Argument," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 13
(1975): 31-46.
Course Manual:
- Introduction to
Philosophy (1994, revision of 1985 manual, with same format).
It is now a little over 140 pages in length. The major change is
the study of a new book on ethics: Kant's Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals. This book presents and defends a number
of extremely important ideas; but because of its difficult writing, I
have included a 30-page, single-spaced outline of it. I used
this outline in an honors introductory philosophy course this
fall, and the students found it very helpful.
- Introduction to
Philosophy (1985, revision of 1974 manual), an 80-page
correspondence course study guide, with initial instructions, brief
introductions to four fields of philosophy, and fifteen lessons (each
with a reading assignment, some analysis of the text, questions about
the text, and a written assignment). This is published by the Department
of Independent Study by Correspondence, The University of Florida
Division of Continuing Education, Gainesville, FL.
- Introduction to
Philosophy (1974), a 56-page correspondence course study guide, with
initial and concluding instructions, brief introductions to four fields
of philosophy, and twenty-two lessons (each with a reading assignment,
an analysis of the text, and questions about the text; and most with a
written assignment). This was published by the Department of
Independent Study by Correspondence, The University of Florida Division
of Continuing Education, Gainesville, FL.
Work under consideration for
publication:
- "Necessity,
Determination and Expectancy in Humean Causality"
- "A Social Account
of Moral Objectivity"
- "Facts and
Values; Correctness and Norms"
Work in process:
- "Retracing the
Cartesian Circle" (being revised, to respond to comments from
readers.)
- "The Conceptual
Objectivity of Values"
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