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Lectures

The following public lectures are available for presentation:

·  Pragmatism-Old and New

·  Mixing Pragmatism and Religion--Some Do, Some Don't

·  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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Education

·  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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Current (and Recent) Projects

·  Essay on John Dewey for International Encyclopedia of Ethics and member of Review Board

·  Essay on pragmatic ethics for Continuum Companion to Pragmatism, as well as glossary, chronology and bibliography; organized project; Sami

    Pihlström is the editor

·  www.obamaspragmatism.info

·  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)

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Academic Employment

• 1995 to present, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte; retired May 2008; now part-time
• 1989-1995, Assistant Professor and (until 1994) Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
• 1986-89, Assistant Professor and (from 1987) Director, Discipline of Philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
• 1985-86, Department of Religion, University of Florida

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Publications

Book

Transforming Experience: John Dewey's Cultural Instrumentalism (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998)

CD-ROM

(Thirty-five thousand word) Introduction to Volume II of The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1919-39, Past Masters Series (InteLex, 2001)

Other

·  "Adjectival and Generic Pragmatism: Problems and Possibilities," forthcoming in Human Affairs

· "A Tool for  Democracy: Using Dewey Wisely," forthcoming in Educational Theory

· "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)

· "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’eredità di Dewey: la sfida di Kerstenbaum,” Studi Sulla Formazione 6 (2003): 50-56; a solicited article for a special issue, “L’attualità 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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Awards and Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Florida, 1985
• 1992-93 Arete (the Queens College year book) Dedicatee
• 1999 Democracy and Education Fellow, The Center for Dewey Studies
• Fulbright Scholar, Departments of American Studies and Philosophy, Fall 2004, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Fulbright Senior Specialists Candidate Roster, 2005-10

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Professional Service

• President, North Carolina Chapter of the Fulbright Association, 2008-2009 
• Secretary, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2006 to 2010
• Treasurer, International Pragmatism Society, 2005 to present
• Executive Committee, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2000-03
• Delegate to the World Congress, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2004-2008

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