Curriculum Vitae: March, 2007

Siena College

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Emory University Ph.D., 1980 Philosophy

University of Toronto M.A., 1974 Medieval Studies

Providence College B.A., 1969 Philosophy

1. Writing  interpretive monographs introducing the thought of Michel Serres and Bruno Latour to English speaking philosophers

2. Exploring the nature of philosophy by reflecting, not on apodictic first principles, but on human rituals, especially the feast

3. Developing a theory of interpretation rooted in Peirce, Royce, and Serres

John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time, SUNY Press, 1998.

Dewey’s Metaphysics, Fordham University Press, 1988.

  “Toward a Programmatic Pragmatism: A Response to Naoko Saito,” Journal of the Philosophy of Education,     36  (2002): 621-628.

“Updating Dewey: A Reply to Morse,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 37 (2001): 573-583.

"Beyond the Spectator Theory of Art: The Challenge of Pragmatism," Soundings, 78 (1995): 417-437.

"Heteronomous Freedom," in Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture: Pragmatic Essays After Dewey, ed. John Stuhr. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

FORTHCOMING:

 "Richard Rorty: Philosopher of the Common Man, Almost" in The Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Richard M. Rorty.   

  REVIEW ESSAYS:                                                      

"Re-Mapping the Territory" (Michel Serres’ Atlas), Man and World, 29 (1996): 63-70.

"Richard Kearney’s The Wake of the Imagination," The Personalist Forum, 5 (1989): 152-154.

"John Dewey on Art, Logic and Religion," International Philosophical Quarterly, 29 (1989): 91-101.

"Volumes 2 and 3, The Later Works of John Dewey," Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society, 21 (1985): 292-300.

"Nature and Natural Science: The Philosophy of F. J. E. Woodbridge by William Frank Jones," Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society, 20 (1984): 75-80.

REVIEWS:

                    L. Shannon Jung’s Food For Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating,                                                Multicultural Review,  14, 1 (Spring, 20 05),  80-81

Thomas P. Kasulis’ Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference, Choice, 40 (Feb. 2002): 996.

Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics, Philosophy in Review, 22 (2002): 249-251

Michel Serres’ Genesis, Zygon, 33 (1998): 481-483.

Michel Serres’ Le Contrat naturel. Zygon, 31 (1996): 358-359.

Michel Serres’ La Légende des anges. International Philosophical Quarterly, 36 (1996): 117-118.

Barry Smith’s Philosophy and the American Academy. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter, 71 (1995): 34-35.

Bruno Latour’s Nous n’avons jamais été modernes, International Philosophical Quarterly, 34 (1994): 514-516.

Victor Lowe’s Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volume II: 1910-1947. The Review of Metaphysics, June, 1991.

J. E. Tiles’ Dewey, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter 56, (1990): 10-11.

TRANSLATIONS:

"Whitehead and the Discovery of God’s Existence," by Alix Parmentier, Philosophy Today 22 (1978): 146-155.

                     “Host/Guest = Person,”  Eighth International Conference on Persons,” Warsaw ,                      Poland ,  August 10, 2005

                    “Diversity as Fraternity Lite,”  Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy,                         California State University , Bakersfield March 5, 2005.

                     “Ethics is Hospitality,”  American Catholic Philosophical Association, Miami ,                      November 6, 2004

“Quartz Time vs. Stomach Time,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society,” (joint meeting)  Hyde Park, NY, The Culinary Institute of America, June 11, 2004.

 “Occasion, Response, and Pre-Disposition: Pragmatism's Moral Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, California, March 25, 2004

 “American Philosophy as the new Universal Philosophy? The Legacy of Gerard Deledalle,”     Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Birmingham, Alabama, March 5, 2004

 “Beyond Oscillation: Creolization as a Model,”  American Catholic Philosophical Association, Houston, TX, November 1, 2003

 “Combating Democratic Nihilism: Communal Meals and Fraternity,”  International Conference on Persons, The University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee, August 7, 2003 

"Etre c’est être intermédiaire: une métaphysique du tiers”   IRSCE, Université de Perpignan, March 28, 2003.

"Hospitality: Philosophy's Missing Virtue,"  Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, Sept. 20, 2002

“Figaro Philosophy, or Intermediaries ‘R Us,”  Frontiers of Creativity Conference, Southern Illinois University, September 28, 2002

“The Parasite as Fundamental Ontological Category,”  Mississippi State University Conference “Know Thyself: Food and the Human Condition,”  April 5, 2002, Starkville, Mississippi.

 "Forget Emerson, Forget Growth, Embrace Anaximander: Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense,"  a response to Naoko Saito's "Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense: Deweyan Growth in an Age of Nihilism,"  Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 8, 2002,  Portland, Maine

 "Building Community Using Shared Texts."  Association for General and Liberal Studies, Oct. 13, 2001, Pittsburgh

“Pragmatism and Tragedy,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (Society for Philosophy of Creativity Session) April 6, 2000, Albuquerque 

"As Dewey was Hegelian, So Should we be Deweyan," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy session in conjunction with the America Philosophical Association, Dec. 28, 1999, Boston.

"Eldridge Gets Dewey Right, It's Dewey who is Wrong" SAAP sponsored session at Central Division of the APA, New Orleans, May 7, 1999.

"Repast, Reliance, and Religion: Beyond Naturalism and Spirituality," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Oregon, February 25, 1999.

"Homo Sapiens: To be Human is to Taste (sapere)" Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Oregon, February 27, 1999

"Dewey Now: Lived Experience versus Scientific Method," Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, Loyola University, Chicago, November 7, 1998.

“John Dewey: Complete Philosopher, Completely Forgotten?” John Dewey Honors Program, University of Vermont, October 19, 1998.

"Does the World Speak? Ask Longfellow, not Rorty." Northern New England Philosophical Association, Bowdoin College, October 25, 1997.

"Good-Bye Postmodern, Hello Polytemporal: The Contributions of Bruno Latour and Michael Serres." American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1995.

"Understanding Dewey: Instrumentality, not Finality." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Toronto, March 9, 1996.

"Chat Rooms, Chaos Theory, and Non-Violence: The New Vision of Michel Serres." ACPA Metropolitan Roundtable, New York City, Dec. 2, 1995.

"Postmodern or Polytemporal: New French Voices and Pragmatism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 4, 1994.

"The Nemesis of Necessity: Philosophy vs. Tragedy," American Catholic Philosophical Association Metropolitan Roundtable, Fairfield University, Dec. 3, 1994.

"Alternatives to Post-Modernism: The French Perspective," Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, APA Eastern Division Meetings, Atlanta, December 28, 1993.

"Grazing or Dining: Toward an Embodied Personalism," Second International Conference on Persons, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, September 24, 1993.

"La réforme de l’éducation américaine: le cas de John Dewey," Colloque sur l’histoire de l’éducation dans les pays de langue anglaise, Université d’Amiens, Amiens, France, March 27, 1992.

"Toward a Post-Modern, Pragmatist Aesthetics," Capital Area Philosophical Society, November 3, 1990.

"Against Disinterest: Aesthetics in a Pragmatist Vein," American Catholic Philosophical Association Metropolitan Roundtable, College of Mount St. Vincent, Dec. 1, 1990.

"Democracy and Education: de Tocqueville, Hutchins and Bloom vs. Dewey," American Philosophical Association Central Division, Cincinnati, April 29, 1988.

"Walker Percy’s American Existentialism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Penn State, March 4, 1988.

"The Function of Education in a Democracy," American Catholic Philosophical Association Metropolitan Roundtable, Fairfield University, Dec. 5, 1987.

"Hirsch and Bloom on American Higher Education," Capital Area Philosophical Society, Albany, November 14, 1987.

"Dewey’s Metaphysics and Non-Foundationalism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Lexington, KY, March 1, 1986.

"Dewey, Cézanne, and Primary Experience," American Catholic Philosophical Association Metropolitan Roundtable, Fordham University, December 1, 1984.

"Woodbridge on the Nature of Metaphysics," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Delaware, March 6, 1982.

Montague Brown’s "Beauty and Technology as Paradigms for the Moral Life, " American Catholic Philosophical Association, Redondo Beach, CA, March 24, 1996.

Casey Haskins’ "Dewey’s Romanticism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, March 5, 1993.

Gérard Deledalle’s "On John Dewey’s Pragmatism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Buffalo, NY, March 3, 1990.

Mark Mendell’s "Dewey and the Fiction of Corporate Legal Personality," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York City, Dec. 29, 1987.

David Hiley’s "Autonomy and Personhood in Rorty’s Post-Philosophical Politics," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 26, 1987.

Ken Stikkers’ "Max Scheler and American Pragmatism," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, March 7, 1987.

John Gilmour’s "Dewey and Gadamer on the Ontology of Art," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Emory University, March 1, 1985.

John Parsons’ "Including Eastern Philosophy in the History of Philosophy," Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, New York City, Dec. 28, 1984.

"Wieman and Dewey: A Comment," Henry Nelson Wieman Centennial conference, Southern Illinois University, August 17, 1984.