Department of Philosophy
Florida International University
North Miami, Florida 33181
(305) 919-5972
 
 

Education:

Ph.D. in philosophy: University of California, San Diego, 1981.
M.A. in philosophy: University of California, San Diego, 1977.
M.A. in philosophy: San Francisco State University, 1975.
B.A. in philosophy/mathematics: University of Washington, 1971.
 

Dissertation:

Title: Kant's Aesthetic Theory: The Roles of Form and Expression.
Committee: Henry E. Allison (chairman), Frederick A. Olafson, Robert B. Pippin.

Areas of Specialization:

Kant, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics.

Areas of Competence:

Modern Philosophy, Topics in philosophy of language

Teaching Experience:

Professor: Florida International Univ., 1998-
Associate Professor: Florida International Univ., 1990-98
Assistant Professor: Florida International Univ., 1985-89
Visiting Professor: Texas A&M University, 1984-5
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow: Rice University, 1982-4
Visiting Lecturer: Univ. of California, San Diego, 1981-2
Instructor: University of San Diego, 1980-1

Adminsitrative Experience:

Chair of the Philosophy Department, Florida International Univ., 2005-
Director of Humanities Program Florida International Univ., 1994-2005
Director of Liberal Studies Program Biscayne Bay Campus Florida International Univ. 2000-
Associate Chair of Philosophy Florida International Univ., 1992-2005
Director of Law, Ethics, and Society Certificate Program Florida International Univ., 1992-

Publications:

>Books:

The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant's Aesthetics (forthcoming, SUNY Press)
Introduction to Ethical Theory (1991, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston)
Kant's Aesthetics: The Roles of Form and Expression (1986, University Press of America)

>Presidential Address:

"Kant and Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review (12:1, Jan. 1996)

>Refereed Journal Articles:

"Kant, Aesthetic Ideas and Originality," Southwest Philosophy Review (forthcoming)
"Kant on Beauty and Morality," Kant-Studien (95: 3, 2004)
"Interpretations of Kantian Idealism," Southwest Philosophy Review (20:1, Jan. 2004)
"Was Everything Beautiful for Kant?," Southwest Philosophy Review (19:1, Jan. 2004)
"On the Morality of Eating Animals," Southwest Philosophy Review (18: 1, Jan. 2001)
"Kant's Identity Crisis," Southwest Philosophy Review (17: 1, Jan. 2000)
"Is Everything Beautiful for Kant?" Kant und die Berliner Aufklarung:  Akten des IX Internationalen  Kant-Kongress  (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001)
"Kant's World(s) of Appearances and Things in Themselves," Southwest Philosophy Review (15: 2, July 1999)
"Pleasure and Fit in Kant's Aesthetics," Kantian Review (2: 1998)
"Beauty without Concepts," Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant-Congress (Marquette: Marquette University Press, 1995)
"Truth, Bivalence and Realism," Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly (43, Jan. 1994)
"A Problem for Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review (9: 1, Jan. 1993)
"Kantian Ontology," Kant-Studien (84: 1, 1993)
"Kant on Art and Nature," Akten Des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, edited by G. Funke (Bonn: Bouvier, 1991)
"Verificationism and Anti-Realism," Southwest Philosophy Review, (Vol. 7: 1, 1991)
"The Inequality of Markets," Dialogue (XXVIII, 1989)
"Causal Hermits," Dialectica (43:4, 1989)
"Kant on the Ideality of Space," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (18:2, June 1988)
"Dickie's Disinterest," Philosophia (17:2, March 1987)
"Kant's Notion of Free Harmony," Southwest Philosophy Review, (Vol. III, 1986)
"Appearances and Things in Themselves," Southwest Philosophy Review (Vol. II, 1985)
"Rights at Risk," Southwest Philosophy Review (Vol. I, 1984)
"Williams and Kant on Integrity," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (22:3, September 1983)
"The Meaning of Universal Validity in Kant's Aesthetics," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (40:3, Spring 1982)

>Book Review Articles:

"Review of Kant's Theory of Taste by Henry E. Allison, Kant-Studien (forthcoming)
"Review of An Introduction to Kant's Aesthetics by Christian Helmut Wenzel," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2006.08.14)
"Review of The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art by Paul Crowther," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (49:4, Fall 1991)
"Review of Kant's Aesthetic by Mary A. McCloskey," International Studies in Philosophy (22:1, January 1990)
"Review of Kant and Fine Art by Salim Kemal," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (47:2, Spring 1989)
"Review of Rationality in Thought and Action by Tamny and Irani," Ethics (98:2, January 1988)

Work in Progress:

"Kant and Empirical Concept Acquisition"

Papers Delivered:

"Kant, Free Harmony and Aesthetic Ideas" (Central APA, April 2006)
"Kant's Account of Aesthetic Ideas:  Ideas and Originality" (Bicentennial Kant Conference, July 2004 and Southwest Philosophical Society, November 2005))
"Interpretations of Kantian Idealism" (Southwest Philosophical Society, Nov. 2003)
"Was Everything Beautiful for Kant?," (Southwest Philosophical Society, Nov. 2002)
"On the Morality of Eating Animals" (Southwest Philosophical Society, Nov. 2001)
"Kant's Identity Crisis" (Central APA, April 2000; Southwest Philosophical Society, Nov. 2000)
"Is Everything Beautiful for Kant?" (9^th Internationaler Kant-Kongress)
"Pleasure and Fit in Kant's Aesthetics" (Pacific APA, March 1997)
"Kant and Anti-Realism" (Presidential address of the Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1995)
"Beauty without Concepts" (8^th International Kant-Congress, March 1995)
"A Problem for Anti-Realism" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1992)
"Verificationism and Anti-Realism" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1990)
"Kant on Art and Nature" (7^th International Kant Congress, April 1990)
"Liberalism" (Symposium paper for the program "Liberalism: An Update" at Miami-Dade Community College, June 1988)
"The Inequality of Markets" (University of Miami, October 1987; Florida Philosophical Association, November 1987)
"Kant's Notion of Free Harmony" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1986)
"Dickie's Disinterest" (Pacific APA, March 1986)
"Appearances and Things in Themselves" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1985)
"Kant on the Ideality of Space" (Pacific APA, March l984 and Rice University, October 1983)
"Rights at Risk" (Southwest Philosophical Society, November 1984 and U.C. San Diego, June 1983)
"The Meaning of Universal Validity in Kant's Aesthetics" (Rice University, February 1982 and U.C. San Diego, November 1981)

Language Competency:

German

Membership in Professional Organizations:

American Philosophical Association
North American Kant Society
Southwestern Philosophical Society (Vice President, 1993-4; President, 1994-5)

References:

Henry E. Allison: Department of Philosophy, University of California at Davis
Karl Ameriks: Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Hoke Robinson:  Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis (Founding President of the North American Kant Society