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EDUCATION:
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D., Philosophy, 1984.
University College London, Postgraduate, 1977-78, Classics & Philosophy.
Bucknell University, B.A. with honors, cum laude, History, 1973.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Academic Teaching Appointments:
1995 - Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
1990 - 1995 Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
1985 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
1984 - 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor, Hofstra University.
Other Professional Appointments:
1993 - Editor in Chief, Metaphilosophy (A scholarly philosophy journal published by Blackwell Publishers).
2000 - Monograph Series Editor, Metaphilosophy Series in Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers.
1991 - 1992 Articles Editor, Metaphilosophy (A scholarly philosophy journal published by Blackwell Publishers).
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS:
Books Edited:
With John Ryder, ed., The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003 (forthcoming).
With Kathleen Wallace & Robert S. Corrington, ed., Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1991.
With Kathleen Wallace, ed., 2nd Expanded Ed. of Justus Buchler, Metaphysics of Natural Complexes. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1990.
Scholarly Journal Articles:
"Saying, Singing, or Sound: Prima la Musica e poi le Parole Revisited," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Summer 1996.
"Prima la Musica e poi le Parole: Explorations in Aesthetic Meaning," Peirce Seminar Papers: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis, v.1, New York & Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993.
"Meaning in the Arts: Considerations for a General Theory," Texas A&M Studies in American Philosophy, 1:2, 1992.
"The Opening of the American Mind: An Unspoken Conversation," Connecticut Review, Vol. XII, No. 1, Winter 1990.
"Does Metaphysics Rest on an Agrarian Foundation? A Deweyan Answer and Critique," Agriculture and Human Values, 7:1 (Winter 1990).
Anthologized Essays:
"Art and Aesthetics," in The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003 (forthcoming).
"Does Metaphysics Rest on an Agrarian Foundation? A Deweyan Answer and Critique." (revised) in The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. Ed. Paul Thompson. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
"Aesthetic Form Revisited: John Dewey's Metaphysics of Art," in Philosophy in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition, Ed. Richard E. Hart & Douglas R. Anderson, New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.
"Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning," in Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircean Ethics and Aesthetics, (Series: Semiotic Crossroads 6), Ed. Herman Parret, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993.
"Reference, Interpretation, and Articulation: Rethinking Meaning in the Arts." in Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics, edited by Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace & Robert S. Corrington. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1991.
Book Reviews (full length):
"Raymond D. Boisvert, Dewey's Metaphysics," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v.3, no. 4, 1989.
"Beth Singer, Ordinal Naturalism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Justus Buchler," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v.1, n.2, 1987.
Other:
Book Series Editor: Metaphilosophy Monographs in Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd.
Presentations (Highlights from 1988 - 2002):
"Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?," The 2nd Central European Pragmatist Forum, "Deconstruction and Reconstruction," Krakow, Poland, June 2002.
"What I Learned on my Summer Bourgeois Holiday, or Watch Out for those Scare Quotes," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar," Opera: Interpretations between Disciplines," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, July 2000.
"Aesthetic Meaning Reconsidered; or What's New with the Old Pragmatism?" Philosophy Department Seminar (Colloquium), Lancaster University, United Kingdom, May 1994.
"Prima la Musica e poi le Parole: Explorations in Aesthetic Meaning," American Society for Aesthetics, Philadelphia, PA, October 1992. Earlier versions read at XIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Madrid, Spain, September 1992 & Semiotic Society of America, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 1991.
"Reconstructing Aesthetic Meaning Within the Context of Human Communication," Eastern Division, American Society for Aesthetics, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, March 1992.
"John Dewey and Formalist Esthetics: A Metaphysical Critique," American Society for Aesthetics annual meeting, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 1990.
"Socrates on the Tube: The "Ethics in America" Television Program," American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Panel, American Philosophical Association, Eastern, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1989.
"Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning," Charles Sanders Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., September 1989.
"The Limits of Representation: Goodman, Danto, and Buchler on Meaning," Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, October 1988.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 2002 - 2003 Project: Book preparation, Readings in Classic American Philosophy.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1998 - 99, 2000 - 2001 Project: Book preparation, The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Opera: Interpretations between Disciplines," Director, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Summer 2000.
Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, 1991 - 92.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1991 - 94, Project: Article or Book preparation, Artworks as Signs: A Semiotic Approach to Aesthetic Meaning.
Connecticut State University Curriculum Grant, Summer 1993, 1988, Project: Computer Logic.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Semiotic Perspectives on Language and Verbal Art," Brown University, Providence, RI, Director: Michael Shapiro, Summer 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Classic Texts in Early American History," University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Summer 1989.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1989 - 90, Project: Book preparation, Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for an Ordinal Metaphysics.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1988 - 89, Project: Articles and presentations on John Dewey's Aesthetics.
Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1987 - 88, Project: Articles and presentations on John Dewey's Metaphysics.
Reassigned Time for Research, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 1997, Spring 1995, Spring 1990, Fall 1988, Spring 1987.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Metaphysics and the Modern World," University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, Summer 1986.
Professional Service:
Board of Book Consultants, Metaphilosophy. 1988 - 1990.
Board of Directors, Research Center for Computing and Society, Southern Connecticut State University, 1990 - .
Planning Committee, National Conference on Computing and Human Values, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, August, 1991.
Professional Memberships:
American Philosophical Association.
The Metaphysical Society of America.
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
The American Society for Aesthetics.
The Charles S. Peirce Society. | 
