EDUCATION

Ph.D. Boston College  January 1978
M.A.  Boston College  May     1975
B.A.  SUNY-Stony Brook May     1973

University of Copenhagen    Matriculated 1972

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Social Theory, Pragmatism, Continental Philosophy.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History of Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Psychology.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

THE COSMOPOLITAN SELF: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy (University of Illinois Press); forthcoming

THE MEDIATING SELF: Mead, Sartre, and Self-Determination (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1986); paper edition, 1992.

PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL THEORY, and the THOUGHT of GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, editor and contributor; in the series, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Albany: SUNY, 1991)

THE SELF-WINDING CIRCLE:  A Study of Hegel's System, in the series:  Modern Concepts of Philosophy, founding editor, Marvin Farber (St. Louis: W. H. Green, 1982).

HABERMAS AND PRAGMATISM, a co-edited anthology, forthcoming Routledge Press.

Encyclopedia Articles:

"George Herbert Mead," in the Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker editors, Garland Publishing Company, forthcoming.

"George Herbert Mead," American National Biography, ACLS and Oxford University Press, 1999.

"George Herbert Mead," Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Articles:

"Law Professors Read Habermas," University of Denver Law  Review, forthcoming in a special issue on Habermas.

"George Herbert Mead," under contract for Blackwell Guide  to American Philosophy.

"A (neo) American in Paris," in Philosophers on Bourdieu, edited by Richard Shusterman, Blackwell, 1999.

"Social Experience and the World," in Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary Vitality, edited by S. Rosenthal, C. Hausman and D. Anderson, University of Illinois Press, 1999.

"Habermas and Mead:  On Universality and Individuality,"  Constellations, April 1995.

"Mead and the Many Voices of Universality," in Recovering Pragmatism's Voice, edited by Lenore Langsdorf and Andrew Smith, SUNY Press, 1995.

"Was George Herbert Mead A Feminist?", in "Pragmatism and Feminism," a special issue of Hypatia, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 1993).

"Mead and the Social Self," Frontiers in American Philosophy, edited by Robert Burch (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993).

"A Mead Divided Against Himself," comments on R. Collins’ "Toward a Neo-Meadian Sociology of Mind," Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1989.

"Self-Consciousness and the Quasi-Epic of the Master, "Philosophical Forum, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Summer 1987.

"MEAD, SARTRE:  Self, Object, and Reflection," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. II No. 4, Winter 1986.

"From Domination to Recognition," in Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy, edited by Carol Gould (Totowa:  Rowman & Allanheld, 1984).

"How Not to Do Away with Pathology," The Family Therapy Networker, Vol. 7, No. 6, November-December, 1983.  "How Not to Do Away with Pathology-Take Two," an editorial reply, Family Therapy Networker, January-February 1984.

"Finitude and Self-Overcoming," (on Hegel and Nietzsche), Dialogos, No. 39, April 1982.

"On Lying to the Dying," Soundings,  Vol. LXIII, No. 4, Winter 1980.

"Engles, Darwin, and Hegel's Idea of Contingency," Studies in Soviet Thought, D. Reidel, Vol. 21, No. 3, August 1980.

"Hegel's Dialectic and Marx's Manuscripts of 1844," Studies in Soviet Thought, D. Reidel, Vol. 18, February 1978.

Book Reviews:

The Philosophy of John William Miller, ed. Joseph P. Fell, International Studies in Philosophy, Winter 1993.

The Politics of Being, Richard Wolin, International Studies in Philosophy, Winter 1993.

Mead and Merleau-Ponty, Sandra B. Rosenthal and Patrick L. Bourgeois, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Fall 1992.

"The Ideal of Democracy," a review of John Dewey and American Democracy, Robert B. Westbrook, American Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2, June 1992.

Creativity in George Herbert Mead, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Texas Journal of Ideas, History, and Culture, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1991.

Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France, Judith P. Butler, International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXII/3, 1990.

Foucault, Marxism and Critique, Barry Smart, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 31, May 1986.

Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory, Andrew Feenburg, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 25, No. 2, February 1983.

Behavior Modification and "Punishment" of the Innocent, George Schedler, Journal of Thought, Vol. 16, No. 1,  Spring 1981.

Essays:

"Whining...," Houston Post, Op Ed Page, 1995.

"Robert F. Young," in Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981).  Revised for Second Edition 1986.

"Is Everybody Happy?"  Houston Chronicle, Wednesday, October 17, 1984, Section 1.

"Protection Money," The Churchman, Vol. CXCVIII, No. 5, June-July 1984.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Comments on Habermas and Strategic vs. Communicative Action." Paper presented at the annual Law and Society  meeting, Aspen, Colorado, June 1998.

Panel on "Jane Addams's Gendered, Pragmatic Social Theory," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 1998, Milwaukee.

Commentary on David Vassey's "G.H. Mead and Dieter Henrich on Self-Consciousness," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 1998,Milwaukee.

"Bourdieu and Mead," (second presentation of paper) Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 1997, Albuquerque, N.M.

"Foucault and Pragmatism Panel," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Oct.'96.

"Comments on Pragmatism, Feminism, and Continental Thought," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy," Chicago, October, 1995

"On Bourdieu and Mead," International Institute for Sociology, Trieste, Italy, July 1995.

"Obstacles to Ethical Decision Making," Texas Ethics Officers Conference, October 1994.

"Obstacles to Ethical Decision Making," Houston Employee Assistance Professionals Association, September 1994.

"Ethics, Lawyers, and Dispute Resolution," Administrative Section of the Travis County Bar Association, June 1994.

"Habermas and Mead:  On Individuation and Universality," Philosophy and Social Science Course, The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, April 1994.

"On Habermas and Mead," Department of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw, Poland, April 1994.

"Assessing Organizational Needs in Ethics" (team presentation), Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cleveland, February 1994.

"Mead and Modernity," Congress of the International Institute of Sociology," Sorbonne, Paris, June 1993.

Commentary on Gary Cook's, "G.H. Mead and the Hutchins Controversy," Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, February 1991.

"Mead and the Social Self," Frontiers in American    Philosophy conference, Texas A&M, June 1988.

Commentary on John Lachs's paper, "Alienation in a Mediated World," December 1984 meeting of the Eastern Division Meeting of the A.P.A.

"Recognition and the Status of Women," presented at the March 1983 program of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

"Must the Other Remain Other," March 1982 program of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

"The Rise of the Master," March 1981 program of the  PacificDivision of the American Philosophical    Association.

"Woman as Servant," May 1981 conference on the Philosophy of Woman's Liberation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Denver, current.

Director, Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs in Humanities and Social Science, current.

Co-director, Center for Ethics and Community, University of Colorado at Denver, 1995-1997.

Director, Project for Professional Ethics, UH-CL, 1993-1995.

Co-convener, Humanities Program, UH-CL, 1992-1995.

Coordinator for National conferences, lectures, and panels.

President - Civic Association, Brun St., Houston, Tx.

Chair - Numerous university committees.

AFFILIATIONS

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (Executive Committee 1992-1995; Liaison with SPEP, current)

American Philosophical Association

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Denver (1995 to present)

Assistant, Associate, and Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston-Clear Lake (1978 to 1995).

Visiting Professor of Philosophy (Part-time), Rice University (Spring 1990, 1992-1993).

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

Social and Political Philosophy
Logic
Epistemology
Ethics
Basic Texts of Western Civilization I
Basic Texts of Western Civilization II
Modern Philosophy
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Continental Philosophy - (Rice U. 1992)
Contemporary Topics - American/Continental (Rice-Spring 1993)
Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard

Graduate Courses Taught:
 

American Philosophy 20th Century Philosophy Philosophy of History Alienation & Society Self-Knowledge & Identity Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Sociology Tutorials:  Hegel, Sartre, Buber, Contemporary Religious Thought

Social Theories of the Self Existentialism Philosophy and Religion Metaphysics Contemporary Issues  Hegel, Marx,and Kierkegaard Philosophy, Feminism, & Social Change Seminar in Continental Philosophy (Rice University)

Instructor and Teaching Fellow, Boston College (1974-1978).

Instructor, Evening College, Stonehill College (1976-1977).

Instructor, Boston College, Institute for Social Thought (1975).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE, UH-CL and UCD

CLAS Dean's Search Committee
Dean's Advisory Committee
Equity Task Force
Co-convener-Humanities
Humanities Program Review (chair)
Founding Advisor--Philosophy Club
Committee on Educational Policy
Humanities Curriculum Committee (chair)
Committee on Criteria for Effective Teaching (chair)
Grievance Committee (Humanities)
Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects
Cultural Affairs Committee
Philosophy Search Committee (chair)
The History Search Committee
Psychology Clinic Director Search Committee
The Literature Search Committee
The HLLP Program Committee
Fine Arts Committee
Liaison Officer for the Danforth Foundation
Committee on Tenure and Promotion
Faculty Senate (1983-1985 term)
Taught in the Texas Department of Corrections Prison Program
University Curriculum Committee
Piper Teaching Award Committee
Promotion and Tenure Committees (chair)
Sociology Search Committee

GRANTS

"Lectures for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy," President's Fund for the   Humanities, University of Colorado, awarded Dec, 1997. Submitted by Aboulafia, Kemp, and Tanzer.

"Recreating Science and the Professional School Curricula," President's Fund for the Humanities, University of Colorado. Submitted by Mark Yarborough, Robin Harven, and Mitchell Aboulafia.  Awarded Dec. 1995.

"The Distinguished Philosophers’ Lecture and Workshop Series," President's Fund for the Humanities, University of Colorado, 1995.

"On Bourdieu and Mead," International Institute for Sociology, Trieste, Italy, July 1995. Faculty Research  Support Fund of the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

"Habermas and Mead:  On Individuation and Universality," at  Czech Academy, Prague, April 1994, Faculty Research Support  Fund.

GTE Lectureships in Technology and Ethics, a conference on Values and Space Technologies, through the Project for Professional Ethics, awarded January 1994.

IBM/TQM Grant, to fund the Project for Professional Ethics, 1995.

IBM/TQM Grant, to fund the Project for Professional  Ethics, Spring 1994.

IBM/TQM Grant, to fund the Project for Professional Ethics, Fall 1993.

Summer stipend for Mead, Pragmatism, and Modernity, Faculty Research Support Fund, Summer 1993.

"Mead and Modernity," at the Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Sorbonne, June 1993, Faculty Research Support Fund.

Summer stipend for Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Thought of G. H. Mead, Faculty Research Support Fund, UH-Clear Lake, Summer, 1988.

Faculty Development Leave, Fall, 1987.

Summer Stipend, UH-Clear Lake, for work on The Mediating Self, Summer, 1984.

Summer stipend for research on Sartre and G. H. Mead, Melrose-Thompson fund of UH-Clear Lake, Summer, 1983.

(Numerous travel grants through Faculty Development and Support Fund of the University of Houston-Clear Lake).