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Michael Eldridge
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Office: Winn 103B
Phone: (704) 687-3318
FAX: (704) 687-2172
Email: mleldrid@uncc.edu
The following public lectures are available for presentation:
· Pragmatism-Old and New
· Dewey, World War I and Social Intelligence (developed as Power Point presentation)
· Pragmatism and Religion: Naturalizing the Unnatural (developed as Power Point presentation)
· American Agent, Hungarian Luck (developed as Power Point presentation)
The following public lectures are in preparation:
· Pragmatism as a Way of Life: Is Intelligence Enough?
· Pragmatism's Problem--and Opportunity
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· B.A. 1964 Harding College
· B.D. 1969 Yale Divinity School
· M.A. 1980 Columbia University
· Ph.D. 1985 University of Florida
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· Proposal submitted to Continuum Books for a comprehensive reference book on contemporary pragmatism
· Participated in conferences in Brazil (World Conference for the Development of Cities, February 2008), Czech Republic (Central European Pragmatist Forum, May 2008), and Finland (Nordic Pragmatism, June 2008)
· "No Permanent Solutions: Pragmatic Idealism and Giving People What They Want," the Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Meeting, Virginia Tech, March 31, 2007 and the University of Calabria, Italy, May 23-27, 2007
· "The Social Origin of Morality: Dewey's Pragmatic Ethics," presented at the joint meeting of the North Carolina and South Carolina Philosophical Societies, University of South Carolina, February, 2006; Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Meeting, University of Virginia, April 1-2; Central European Pragmatist Forum, University of Szeged, Hungary, May 27-June 1, 2006
· organized and chaired session on James Campbell's A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years of the American Philosophical Association (Open Court, 2006) at the Eastern Division annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 2006
· “The Little-Known and Often-Misunderstood Dewey—Revealed,” in session on "The Correspondence of John Dewey: A Celebration," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eastern Division annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2006
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Book
Transforming Experience: John Dewey's Cultural Instrumentalism (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998)
(Thirty-five thousand word) Introduction to Volume II of The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1919-39, Past Masters Series (InteLex, 2001)
Other
· "When Philosophy Became What It Is Today," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society (Spring 2007)
· "Felix Adler," "George Boas," "Paul Carus," "John Dewey's A Common Faith," "John Dewey on Religion," "The Pluralist Revolt," and "The Quest for Being," American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, John Lachs and Robert Talisse, editors (Routledge, forthcoming 2007)
· "John Dewey," Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism, William Sweet, gen. ed. (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes-Continuum Press, to be published in 2007)
· "Philosophy," American History through Literature, 1870-1920, 3 vols. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006)
· "John Dewey," Dictionary of Modern American Philosophy, John R. Shook, gen. ed. (Thoemmes Continuum; 2005)
· "Dewey's Bulldog and the Eclipse of Pragmatism," Sidney Hook Reconsidered, edited by Matthew J. Cotter (Prometheus Books, 2004)
· "Social Reconstruction and Philosophy," Deconstruction and Reconstruction, edited by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska (Rodopi, 2004)
· "Pragmatism's Elusive Life-Enhancing Social Philosophy," Pragmatism and Values, edited by John Ryder and Emil Višnovský (Rodopi, 2004)
· "Chapter 4: Naturalism," Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, edited by Armen Marsoobian and John Ryder (2004)
· "Dewey on Race and Social Change," Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, edited by Bill E. Lawson and Donald F. Koch (Indiana University Press, 2004)
· "Lottando con l’ereditŕ di Dewey: la sfida di Kerstenbaum,” Studi Sulla Formazione 6 (2003): 50-56; a solicited article for a special issue, “L’attualitŕ di John Dewey”
· "Dewey's Limited Shelf Life: A Consumer Warning," Passing Dewey By, edited by William Gavin (State University of New York Press, 2003)
· "The Teachers Union Fight and the Scope of Dewey's Logic," Dewey's Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations, edited by Tom Burke, Micah Hester and Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002)
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