United States Military Academy Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Life-Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

Transcription

1 CURRICULUM VITAE LOUIS P. POJMAN EDUCATION Oxford University United States Military Academy Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Life-Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University D.Phil. University of Copenhagen University of Hamburg Union Theological Seminary Fulbright Fellow 1971 Rockefeller Fellow Ph.D. (With Columbia University, NY) Union Theological Seminary Master's Degree (Columbia University) EMPLOYMENT DATES POSITION United States Military Academy Professor of Philosophy University of Mississippi Professor, Chair University of Mississippi Associate Professor University of Texas at Dallas Assistant Professor University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor Oxford University Lecturer in Philosophy VISITING SCHOLAR POSITIONS Cambridge University Princeton University 2001 Brigham Young University 1998 University of California, Berkeley New York University City University of New York Graduate Center SPECIALIZATIONS Ethical Theory; Bioethics: Environmental Ethics & Medical Ethics; Philosophy of Religion; [2004]1

2 Epistemology, and Political Philosophy. DISSERTATIONS Masters Degree. A Philosophy of Negro Culture, Union Theological Seminary, 1967 Doctors Degree. Faith and Reason in Soren Kierkegaard's Thought, Oxford University, PUBLICATIONS A. BOOKS 1. The Logic of Subjectivity: A Critique of Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion, University of Alabama Press, Religious Belief and the Will, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Wadsworth Publishing Company, August, Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Company, August, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (a textbook anthology), Wadsworth Publishing Company, Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Company Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time Jones and Bartlett, March Life and Death: A Reader, Jones and Bartlett, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (a textbook anthology), revised 2/ed. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992 (revised 3/ed 1995). 11. The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, (Wadsworth Publishing Company), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, revised/2nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Moral Philosophy: A Reader, Hackett Publishing Company, Environmental Ethics: A Readings in theory and Application, Jones and Bartlett, [2004]2

3 Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, revised/2nd edition, Wadsworth, Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, revised/2nd edition, Wadsworth, The Abortion Controversy: A Reader, edited with Francis J. Beckwith, Jones and Bartlett, What Can We Know? An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Wadsworth, Philosophy: The Traditions, Wadsworth Publishing Co., Equality: A Reader, edited with Robert Westmoreland, Oxford University Press, Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom, revised/2nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Environmental Ethics, revised/ 2 nd edition, Wadsworth, Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, revised/3 rd edition, Wadsworth, Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, revised/3rd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Philosophy: The Classics, Oxford University Press, Published in two volumes. 27. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, revised/3 rd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, revised/ 4 th edition, Wadsworth, Theory of Knowledge, revised/2 nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, The Death Penalty: For and Against (Point-Counterpoint Series), jointauthored with Jeffrey Reiman, Rowman & Littlefield, Jan Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time, revised/2 nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Co Life and Death: A Reader, revised/2 nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1999). 33. Desert: A Reader with Owen McLeod, Oxford University Press, Kierkegaard s Philosophy of Religion, International Scholars Press, Global Environmental Ethics, Mayfield Publishing Co., (Transferred to McGraw-Hill, 2002) 37. Environmental Ethics, revised/ 3 rd edition, Wadsworth, [2004]3

4 38.The Moral Life, Oxford University Press, What Can We Know? An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, revised/2 nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Philosophy of Religion, Mayfield Publishing Co., (Transferred to McGraw-Hill, 2002) 41.Ethics: Discovering Right & Wrong, revised/4 th edition, Wadsworth, Ethical Theory, revised/4 th edition, Wadsworth, Modern & Contemporary Political Philosophy, McGraw-Hill, Philosophy: The Classics, revised/2nd edition, Oxford University Press, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, revised 5 th edition, Oxford University Press, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (revised 4th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2003). 47. Theory of Knowledge, revised/3 rd edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom, revised/4th edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Global Political Philosophy, McGraw-Hill, The Moral Life, Oxford University Press, 2 nd ed., Environmental Ethics, revised/ 4 th edition, Wadsworth, Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings 3 rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2004) 53. Justice: A Reader, Prentice-Hall, forthcoming, How Shall We Live? Wadsworth Publishing Company, , Justice (Prentice-Hall Foundations of Philosophy Series, 2005) 56 Philosophy: The Traditions, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2 nd ed Who Are We? Theories of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2005) 58. Ethics: Discovering Right & Wrong, revised/5 th edition, Wadsworth, Ethical Theory, revised/5 th edition, Wadsworth, Terrorism, Human Rights and the Case for World Government (in preparation) [2004]4

5 B. ARTICLES (partial list of over 100 articles) 1. Big is Beautiful: A Defense of World Government HISTORY REVIEW(forthcoming Spring 2005) 2. Globalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Prospects of World Peace and Justice in War and Reconciliation, ed. Joseph Runzo (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2004). 3. A Defense of the Death Penalty in Issues in Applied Ethics, eds. Andrew Cohen and Christopher Wellman (forthcoming, Blackwells, 2004) 4. The Moral Case for Institutional Cosmopolitanism in CROATIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY (forthcoming) 5. The Moral Response to Terrorism and the Cosmopolitan Imperative, in J. Sterba, ed. Terrorism and International Justice (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2002). 6. In Defense of the Death Penalty in THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE, ed. Hugo Bedau, (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2003). 7. Justice As Desert QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY LAW and JUSTICE JOURNAL, vol.1.1 (2001) 8. Strawman or Straw Theory? A Response to Albert Mosley s Critique of my The Case Against Strong Affirmative Action, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, vol. 13 (1999). 9. Equality and Desert in PHILOSOPHY, 72, Does Equality Trump Desert?, in DESERT: A READER, eds. O. McLeod and L. Pojman, The Case Against Strong Affirmative Action, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, vol. 12, It also appears in William Shaw s PERSONAL AND SOCIAL MORALITY, 4 th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Co., Equality: A Plethora of Theories, JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH, In Defense of the Death Penalty, in JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, VOL 11; Winter/Spring Equality: The Concept and Its Conceptions, in BEHAVIOR AND PHILOSOPHY, Summer 1995, Vol 23.2; pp Are All Humans Equal?: A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism in EQUALITY: A READER, ed. Robert Westmoreland and Louis Pojman, Oxford [2004]5

6 University Press, Free Will, Determinism and Moral Responsibility in Ethical Theory, ed. L. Pojman, Wadsworth, Are Equal Human Rights Based on Equal Human Worth? PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, October, 1992, pp. 1-18; reprinted in Sterling Harwood, ed. BUSINESS ETHICS, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Animal Rights and Egalitarianism in ETHICAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, eds., John Howie and George Schedler, University of Southern Illinois Press, forthcoming late 1994, pp Reflections on the Basis of Contemporary Secular Ethics, JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY vol. XXVI, number 1, Summer An Inegalitarian Thought Experiment in PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 1995 pp Do Animal Rights Entail Moral Nihilism in PUBLIC AFFAIRS QUARTERLY, Vol 7.2, April 1993, pp Faith, Doubt and Hope in CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, eds. Ann Loades and Loyal Rue, Open Court, 1991, pp [selected by 22 leading philosophers of religion as one of the best papers in Philosophy of Religion in the second half of the twentieth century]. 23. A Reply to Michael Levin and Laurence Thomas' Views on Race and Crime, JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Is Contemporary Moral Theory Founded on a Misunderstanding? in JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY in volume 22, number 2, April 1992, pp Ethics: Religious and Secular, THE MODERN SCHOOLMAN vol. 70, November, 1992, pp The Moral Status of Affirmative Action, PUBLIC AFFAIRS QUARTERLY, vol. 6.2, April 1992, pp ; reprinted in AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: SOCIAL JUSTICE OR REVERSE DISCRIMINATION, ed. F. Beckwith and T. Jones, Prometheus, 1998; in BUSINESS ETHICS, eds. Robert E. Frederick and Michael Hoffman, McGraw-Hill, 1995; in DO THE RIGHT THING, ed. Frank Beckwith, Jones and Bartlett, 1995; in AT THE CROSSROADS: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, GENDER AND CULTURE, ed. Steven Yates; BUSINESS ETHICS, ed. Tom Beauchamp; CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES: [2004]6

7 RACE, GENDER & CLASS PERSPECTIVES, ed. Julie McDonald; in James Sterba, ed. MORALITY IN PRACTICE, 5th ed, Wadsworth, 1997; and in Howard Curzer, ed. MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Believing, Willing and the Ethics of Belief, in THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS, Wadsworth, 1992, pp ; and in 2 nd edition, A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism, FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol 8.4. October, 1991, pp Gilbert Harman's Internalism and the Problem of Motivation, THE MODERN SCHOOLMAN, Vol LXIII.1, November, 1990, pp Kierkegaard's Epistemology, KIERKEGAARDIANA, 1990, Kierkegaard on Faith and Freedom, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILO- SOPHY OF RELIGION, Vol. 27, April, 1990, Free Will and Determinism: A Contemporary Analysis, ZYGON, Vol 22.4, 1988, pp A Critique of Moral Relativism, in ETHICAL THEORY ed. Louis Pojman Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988, pp ; in subsequent editions up through 4 th one in Reprinted in DO THE RIGHT THING, ed. Frank Beckwith, Jones & Bartlett, In Defense of Moral Saints in ETHICAL THEORY, 1988, pp ; in subsequent editions up through 4 th one in Reflections on Moral Relativism, in HISTORIES AND ADDRESSES OF PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES, A Special Series in Value Inquiry Books, Faith without Belief, in FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol 3.2, April, 1986; pp Reprinted in PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION: AN ANTHOLOGY, 3 rd ed.; revised article in 4th ed., Louis Pojman. 37. On Criteria for Rational Religious Belief, in FAITH AND BEING, a Festschrift for John Macquarrie, edited by Eugene Long and Alastair Kee, SCM Press, This article has been reprinted in THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, ed. Yeager Hudson, Mayfield, 1990, and PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, E. L. Klemke, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, A Critique of Gutting's Argument from Religious Experience, in PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A BOOK OF READINGS, ed. L. Pojman, Wadsworth Publishing Company, [2004]7

8 1986; pp Can Religious Belief be Rational? in PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A BOOK OF READINGS, ed. L. Pojman, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1986, pp Kierkegaard's Concept of Freedom and the Scala Paradisi in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, vol 18: , Believing and Willing, THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, vol 15, number 1, March 1985, pp The Ethics of Belief, SOUTHWEST PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, March 1985, pp A Critique of Holyer's Volitionalism, in DIALOGUE, March, Kierkegaard on the Stages of Existence, in FAITH, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ed. George Stengren, Copenhagen:Reitzels, 1984, pp Volitionalism and the Acquisition of Belief in SOUTHWEST PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, March 1984, 14 pages. 46. Christianity and Philosophy in Kierkegaard's Early Papers, JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS, Jan., MORAL VALUES AND THE MEANING OF LIFE, a short monograph, Waterleaf Press, 1983, pp Direct Volitionalism, SOUTHWEST PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Kierkegaard on Subjectivity: Two Concepts, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH- WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (supplement to PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS), 1982, pp Kierkegaard on Faith and History, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHI- LOSOPHY OF RELIGION, vol. 13: Kierkegaard on Paradox and Subjectivity, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, vol. 12: The Logic of Subjectivity, SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Spring, 1981, vol.19: Volitionalism, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, March, 1981; pp KIERKEGAARD AS PHILOSOPHER, a monograph published by Waterleaf Press, 1979; pp Rationality and Religious Belief, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, vol.15: ; [2004]8

9 56. Kierkegaard's Theory of Subjectivity and Education, a chapter in PHENOMENOLOGY AND EDUCATION, eds., Curtis and May, Methuen Press, Belief and Will, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, vol. 14:1-14; ; in subsequent editions up through PAPERS READ AT UNIVERSITIES AND CONFERENCES (partial list of over 125 lectures) 1. Globalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Prospects of World Peace and Justice at the Cambridge University, May 26, The Moral Case for Institutional Cosmopolitanism International Conference on Ethics in Bled, Slovenia, June 4, Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Justice Drew University, March 24, Bioethics and Cosmopolitanism Yale University, December 18, (2 lectures) 5. The Moral Response to Terrorism and the Cosmopolitan Imperative, American University, Nov. 19, The Moral Response to Terrorism and the Cosmopolitan Imperative, College of New Jersey Nov. 11, The Argument from Religious Experience at Indiana State University, March 22, Evolutionary Ethics, US Air Force Academy, February 21, Terrorism and Moral Heroism, US Air Force Academy, February 20, The Moral Response to Terrorism and the Cosmopolitan Imperative, US Air Force Academy, February 20, Philosophy in the 21 st Century: The Great Chain of Being, Utah Valley State College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference March, The Great Chain of Being: Religion, Science, and Philosophy Templeton Lecture at Penn State University, Delaware County, March 15, The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, a lecture to the Philosophy Club at Utah Valley State College in Provo Utah, October 19, Delivered the Admiral James B. Stockdale Lecture on Ethics and Leadership at the University of San Diego, April 13, 2000, Moral Saints and moral Heroes. 15. In Defense of the Death Penalty, Emory and Henry College, March 3, Evolution and Utilitarianism, Emory and Henry College, March 4, [2004]9

10 17. Ethics and the Media the keynote address on Ethics and the Media at the National Conference on Ethics and the Media held in Park City, Utah, October 25, Kant s Cosmopolitan Vision of Peace at the Kant (Nov. 2004) 19. International Conference of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran, November 2004 Plus 63 other papers, available upon request. Over 125 lectures and papers given at professional organizations in 35 years. SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 1. Superior Civilian Service Award, presented by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. July Superintendent s Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, U. S. Military Academy, Spring of Associate Editor INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELI- GION, July 1990 to present. 3. Member of the Honors Education Working Group, United States Military Academy, September 1995 to This committee develops on-going policy proposals on the place of morality at the United States Military Academy. 4. President, SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, 1995 to Member Committee on Academic Careers, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION (November 1995 to 1998). 6. Member of the Executive Council, English Department, U.S. Military Academy 7. Coordinator for the National Collegiate Conference on Ethics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point (Nov. 1995). 8. Member of the Board of Editors of the Supplementary Volume of the ENCYCLO- PEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (1992 to 1995). 9. Member of the Editorial Board JOINT SERVICES CONFERENCE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, September 1995 to Member of the Executive Council of The Society for the Philosophy of Religion 1990 to Editor of the SOREN KIERKEGAARD NEWSLETTER, August, 1982 to August Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy and Religions of the University of Mississippi, July 1, 1987 to March, Member of the Program Committee of the APA (Central Division) 1992/93. [2004]10

11 14. President of the Mississippi Philosophical Association, April 1987 to April Secretary-Treasurer of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the American Philosophical Association, elected December, President of the North Texas Philosophical Association, Coordinator of the Religious Studies Library Collection and Jewish Studies Program at UTD, 1981-present (which raised over $80,000 for these programs). 18. Secretary-Treasurer of the North Texas Philosophical Association, Founder and Advisor of the Philosophy Society at UTD, Founder and Advisor of the Environmental Ethics Club at UTD, Other information: I am married to Trudy Pojman, who has done home hospice nursing and volunteer work. We have two children, Ruth Freedom and Paul Theodore. My hobbies are reading, listening to classical music, hiking, jogging, and cycling. SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, and HONORS DATES Superintendant s Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, U. S. Military Academy, Spring of Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities: an honor given by the Mississippi Council for the Humanities, October 20, NEH Seminar Fellowship on Naturalism, University of Nebraska, Visiting Scholar, City University of New York Graduate Center, Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship, U. of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Faculty Summer Research Grant, 1986, 88. Exxon Fellow in Ethics and Medicine at Baylor Medical College, Houston, TX, Nominated by the Faculty of UTD for the Piper Award, (A Prize Given for Outstanding Teaching in the University of Texas System) NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in Philosophy, 1981, University of Nebraska/Lincoln. Oxford University Fellowship Kent Fellowship (Danforth Foundation) Fulbright Fellowship for Denmark Rockefeller Fellowship [2004]16

12 Union Theological Seminary Scholarship COURSES TAUGHT Ancient Philosophy Knowledge and Reality Ancient and Medieval Philosophy History of Modern Philosophy Ethical Theory History of Early Christian Thought History of Ethical Thought Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Moral Problems Philosophy of Mind Hebrew, Greek, and Christian: a study of Hellenism & Hebraism Environmental Ethics Philosophy of Religion Medical Ethics Proseminar in the History of Ideas Philosophical Issues in Death & Dying Political Philosophy Ethical Issues in Love & Sex Epistemology Existentialism The Concept of Human Nature Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy of Science 17th and 18th Century British Moral Philosophy [2004]17