Ph.D. Philosophy; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1987
M.A. Philosophy; Michigan State University, 1981
B.A. Philosophy; State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, 1979
Courses Taught
39-171 Introduction to Philosophy
39-275 Introduction to Ethics--Professional Ethics
39-276 Introduction to Ethics--Bioethics
39-376 History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
39-377 History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
39-401 Senior Seminar
39-475 Aesthetics
39-490 Advanced Topics: The Philosophy of John Dewey
39-570 Metaphysics
39-579 Independent Study in Philosophy
39-590 Advanced Topics: Friedrich Nietzsche
Academic Interest
American Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Value Theory
Scholarly Activity
Selected Publications
Coeditor with Elizabeth R. Eames: S. Morris Eames, Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003).
"Pragmatic Failure and the Attribution of Belief," Journal of Philosophical Research, 32 (2007), 133-43.
Coauthor with Thomas Alexander, "John Dewey," Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 270: American Philosophers Before 1950 (Bruccoli-Clark, 2003), 56-88.
“Descartes on the Material Falsity of Ideas,” Philosophical Review 102 (July 1993), 309-33.
Selected Presentations
“Belief and Pragmatic Failure,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, April, 2003.
"Dewey's Theory of Education, Higher Education, and Experiential Learning," Missouri Western State College, 16 November 2001.
“Contextualism and Constitutive Questions of Value,” paper presentation, Conference: The World in Perspective, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 25-26 September 1998.
Student Group Advisement
Stoa Talks
Other Professional Experiences
Founding member, International Pragmatism Society, 2006-Present
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