Education

    Ph.D. (Philosophy), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 1987.
    M.A. (Philosophy), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1981.
    B.A. (Philosophy), State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, 1979.
 

Professional Experience

    Associate Professor, Northwest Missouri State University, 2004-Present.
    Assistant Professor, Northwest Missouri State University, 1993-2004.
    Adjunct Professor, Western Kentucky University, 1992-93.
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, 1991-92.
    Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1990-91.
    Instructor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1989-90.
    Researcher/Textual Editor, Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1985-89.
 

Publications

Books

• Coeditor with Elizabeth R. Eames: S. Morris Eames, Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003).  See at SIU Press
• Assistant Textual Editor, The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 17, ed. Jo Ann Boydston, textual ed. Barbara Levine (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990).
• Assistant Textual Editor, Later Works, Vol. 16, ed. Jo Ann Boydston, textual ed. Harriet F. Simon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989).
• Assistant Textual Editor, Later Works, Vol. 15, ed. Jo Ann Boydston, textual ed. Patricia Baysinger (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989).

Articles and Contributions
 

• "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.
• “Textual Commentaries with the Use of Layers,”  APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 99 (Spring 2000).
• “Sigmund Freud” and “Franz Kafka,” Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, ed. Richard Frucht (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 281, 412.
• “John Dewey,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 53K http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dewey.htm (1996).
• “St. Louis Hegelians,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 11K http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hstlouis.htm (1996).
• “Descartes on the Material Falsity of Ideas,” Philosophical Review 102 (July 1993), 309-33.
• Reprint: Descartes, International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy,  Tom Sorrel, ed. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1999).  See at Ashgate.com
• “Descartes' Proof of the Existence of Matter,” Mind 93 (1985), 244-49.
• “St. Thomas Aquinas on Properties and the Powers of the Soul,” Laval théologique et philosophique 40 (1984), 203-15.
• “Transmission, Inheritance, and Efficient Causation,” Process Studies 14 (1984), 44-46.
• “William James and the Epochal Theory of Time,” Process Studies 13 (1983), 260-74.
• “The Temporal Dimension of Causal Relationships,” Dialogue (Phi Sigma Tau) 26 (1983), 17-26.

• Editor-in-Chief, Kinesis: Graduate Journal in Philosophy, 1982-84; Associate Editor, 1981-82.

• Hilary Putnam's Ethics without Ontology, Southwest Philosophy Review, forthcoming.
  
• Paul Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism, Southwest Philosophy Review, 22 (July 2006), 155-58.
  
• Lawrence Becker's The New Stoicism, Southwest Philosophy Review, 18(2) (July 2002),  169-71.
• Peter Carruthers’ Language, Thought, and Consciousness, Southwest Philosophy Review, 15 (July 1999), 115-118.
• "Web-Based Quizzes Produced by Hot Potatoes" (software review), APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 98 (Spring 1999), 69-70.
• Robert S. Brumbaugh's Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education,Kinesis 13 (1983), 38-40.

• Experience and Value: A Contextualist Approach to Axiology (1987), Advisor: S. Morris Eames.

• Invited Presentation: "Belief and Pragmatic Failure," Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, April 2003.
• Invited Presentation: "Dewey's Theory of Inquiry and Some Concerns about the Application of His Educational Theory to Higher Education," Missouri Western State College, 16 November 2001.  .Pdf copy.
• Research Consultant, Center For Dewey Studies, John Dewey Collected Correspondence Project, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1997-Present.  Winner of the 1999 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book.  See it at Intelex Website.
• Speaker on discussion panel: Evolution: Just a Theory? 20 October 1999, Northwest Missouri State University.  Html copy
• Debate on God’s Existence, 20 January 1999, Northwest Missouri State University.  Html copy
• “Contextualism and Constitutive Questions of Value,” paper presentation, Conference: The World in Perspective, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 25-26 September 1998.  Pdf copy.
• Commentator and Chair of Session, Conference: Philosophical Collaborations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 6-7 April 1995.
• Speaker on discussion panel: "Philosophy's Pluralistic Future," Conference: The Varieties of American Experience, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 14 April 1991.
• "Descartes on Ideas and Material Falsity," paper presentation, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 20 December 1990.
• Chair of session, Conference: Minnesota Philosophical Society, College of St. Thomas, 27 October 1990.

• Listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers and Educators, 2007.
  
• StudyWeb Academic Excellence Award, 1999.
• Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984-85.
• Doctoral preliminary examinations passed with distinction, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1983.
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Michigan State University, 1981.
• Cum Laude, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, 1979.
• Regents Scholarship, New York State Board of Regents, 1975-79.

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