MICHAEL BAUR Associate Professor Philosophy Department Fordham University Bronx, N.Y. 10458 Phone: (718) 817-3295 E-mail: mbaur@fordham.edu

DATE OF BIRTH:  November 13, 1963

CITIZENSHIP:  American

LANGUAGES:  Fluent in English and German; basic reading knowledge of French and Latin

EDUCATION:

• 1985 B.A., summa cum laude, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
           Double Major: Philosophy and Theology
           One year (1983-84) spent at the University of Durham, England
• 1986 M.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto
• 1991 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto
  Dissertation title: “Hegel and Heidegger as Transcendental Philosophers”
  Directors: Graeme Nicholson, Rebecca Comay, Kenneth Schmitz
  One year of dissertation research (1988-89) conducted at the University of Heidelberg
• 1998 J.D., cum laude, June 1998, Harvard Law School

AREAS OF RESEARCH: Kant and German Idealism, 19th Century Continental Thought, Philosophy of Law

MAJOR AWARDS:

• “Outstanding Scholar Award,” Loyola Marymount University, awarded for graduating first in class of 701 students
• Fulbright Full Graduate Scholarship, for one year of research at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
• 1995-98, Dean’s Scholarship, from the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships
• 1997-98, Distinction in Teaching Award, for Teaching in the Core Curriculum, Harvard University

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:

• 1991-1997, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064
• 1997-98, Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138
• 1998-2002, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458
• since 2002, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458
• since 2003, Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School, New York, NY 10023

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS:

• 1992-93, & 1997-present, National Secretary, American Catholic Philosophical Association
• 1994-present, National Secretary, Hegel Society of America
• 1996-1998, Visiting Scholar, Cabot House, Harvard-Radcliffe, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1996-present, Associate Editor, The Owl of Minerva, Journal of the Hegel Society of America
• 2001-present, Faculty-in-Residence (with wife Christine), Queen’s Court Residential College, Fordham University
• 2003-present, Director, Natural Law Colloquium, Fordham University (www.lawandphilosophy.org)
• 2003-present, Associate Director, Center for Ethics Education, Fordham University (www.fordhamethics.org)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books (Editor or Co-editor)

• Editor, The Importance of Truth: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1994)
• Co-editor (with John Russon), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997)
• Editor, Virtues and Virtue Theories: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1998)
• Editor, Texts and Their Interpretation: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999)
• Co-editor (with Daniel O. Dahlstrom), The Emergence of German Idealism (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999)
• Editor, Insight and Inference: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2000)
• Editor, Philosophical Theology: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2001)
• Editor, Person, Soul, and Immortality: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2002)
• Editor, Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2003)
• Editor, Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2004)
• Editor, Reckoning with the Tradition: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2005)
• Editor, Social Justice – Its Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2006)

Forthcoming Books (Editor or Co-editor)

• Co-editor, The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk, edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, forthcoming 2006)
• Editor, Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, forthcoming 2007)
• Co-editor, The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, edited by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate (Malden, MA: Blackwell, forthcoming 2007).

Books (Translator)

• German-to-English translation of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right (334 pages), edited by Frederick Neuhouser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Articles and Chapters in Books

• “Ethics, Rationality, Dialectic, and Community,” The Claremont Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy 5 (1985), pp. 12-29.
• “Questions Philosophers Ask,” Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 6 (1987), pp. 21-35.
• “A Conversation with Hans-Georg Gadamer,” conducted and translated by Michael Baur, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 8  (1990), pp. 1-13.
• “A Contribution to the Gadamer-Lonergan Discussion,” Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 8 (1990), pp. 14-23.
• “On the Aim of Scientific Theories in Relating to the World: A Defence of the Semantic Account,” Dialogue 29 (1991), pp. 323-333.
• “Hegel and the Overcoming of the Understanding,” The Owl of Minerva 22 (1991), pp. 141-158.  Reprinted in Hegel. Volume II: The Philosophy of Hegel, edited by David Lamb (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 315-332.
• Preface to and translation of Martin Heidegger’s “Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle,” Man and World 25 (1992), pp. 355-393.
• “Hegel and Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and Historicity,” Reason in History: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, edited by Thérèse-Anne Druart (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1995), pp. 125-134.
• “Adorno and Heidegger on Art in the Modern World,” Philosophy Today 40 (1996), pp. 357-366.
• “Heidegger and Aquinas on the Self as Substance,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1996), pp. 317-337.  Reprinted in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, edited by Roman T. Ciapolo (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association, 1997), pp. 38-57.
• “Innocent Owners and Guilty Property,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 20 (1996), pp. 279-292.
• “Winckelmann and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks,” in Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris, edited by Michael Baur and John Russon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 93-110.
• “Sublating Kant and the Old Metaphysics: A Reading of the Transition from Being to Essence in Hegel’s Logic,” The Owl of Minerva 29 (1998), pp. 139-164.
• “Die Einleitung zu ‘Sein und Zeit’ und die Frage nach der phänomenologischen Methode: Versuch einer Erklärung,” Perspektiven der Philosophie, Bd. 24 (1998), pp. 225-248.
• “The Role of Skepticism in the Emergence of German Idealism,” in The Emergence of German Idealism, edited by Michael Baur and Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), pp. 63-91.
• “Kant’s Moral Proof: Defense and Implications,” Philosophical Theology: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2001), pp. 141-161.
• “Self-measure and Self-moderation in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre,” in New Studies in Fichte’s Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre, edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001), pp. 81-102.
• “Natural Law and the Legislation of Virtue: Historicity, Positivity, and Circularity,” in Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society  2 (2001), pp. 51-70.
• “Reversing Rawls: Criteriology, Contractualism, and the Kantian Primacy of the Practical,” in Philosophy and Social Criticism 28:3 (May 2002), pp. 251-296.
• “Kant, Lonergan, and Fichte on the Critique of Immediacy and the Epistemology of Constraint in Human Knowing,” in International Philosophical Quarterly. 43:1 (2003), pp. 91-112.
• “Newman on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences,” in Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, edited by Michael Baur (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2004), pp. 111-127.
• “On Actualizing Public Reason,” Fordham Law Review 72:5 (April 2004), pp.2153-2175.
• “Idealism” in Volume Three of  New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), pp. 1078-1082.
• “What Is Distinctive About Terrorism, and What Are the Philosophical Implications?,” in Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism, edited by Timothy Shanahan (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005), pp. 3-21.
• “In Defense of Finnis on Natural Law Legal Theory,” in Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society 6: 1-2 (Winter 2005), pp. 35-55.
• “We All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited Selves in Memento,” in Movies and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take On Hollywood, edited by Kimberly Blessing and Paul Tudico (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005), pp. 94-110.
• “Incommensurable Goods, Alternative Possibilities, and the Self-Refutation of the Self-Refutation of Determinism,” in American Journal of Jurisprudence 50 (2005), pp. 165-171.
• “Fichte’s Impossible Contract,” in Rights, Bodies, Recognition: New Essays on Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right, edited by Tom Rockmore and Daniel Breazeale (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 11-25.

Forthcoming Articles or Chapters in Books

• “‘And the Time Will Come When You See We’re All One: The Beatles and Idealistic Monism,” in The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk, edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, forthcoming 2006), pp. 13-24.
• “‘American Pie’ and the Self-critique of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” in Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, edited by William Irwin and Jorge J.E. Gracia (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, forthcoming 2006), pp. 255-273.
• “Systematically Unsystematic Violence: On the Definition and Moral Status of Terrorism,” in The Reason of Terror: Philosophical Responses to Terrorism, edited by Kem Crimmins and Herbert De Vriese (Louvain: Peeters Publishers, forthcoming 2006).

Non-academic Articles

• “Oedipus, Achilles and O.J. ¾ Lessons from Antiquity for Our Time,” Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1994, “Metro” section, p. B-7.

Book Reviews

• Review of Kinds of Being by E.J. Lowe, in The Review of Metaphysics 46 (1992), pp. 166-168.
• Review of Radical Realism by Edward Pols, in The Review of Metaphysics 47 (1993), pp. 379-380.
• Review of Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other by Robert Williams, in The Review of Metaphysics 47 (1994), pp. 849-851.
• Review of The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, in The Review of Metaphysics 48 (1994), pp. 135-137.
• Review of The Metaphysics of Being of St. Thomas Aquinas in a Historical Perspective by Leo J. Elders, in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (Winter 1995), pp. 101-103.
• Review of Feminism Under Fire by Ellen R. Klein, The Review of Metaphysics 50 (1996), pp. 164-165.
• Review of Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency by Allen Speight, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2003), pp. 134-135.
• Review of Problems from Kant by James Van Cleve, in International Philosophical Quarterly 43:1 (2003), pp. 124-126.

Signed Notes

• “Hegel at the APA,” in The Owl of Minerva 24 (1993), p. 254.
• “Hegel at the APA,” in The Owl of Minerva 26 (1995), pp. 233-234.
• “Meeting of the North American Fichte Society,” in The Owl of Minerva 27 (1995), p. 115.

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND LEARNED SOCIETIES:

• “Defining Philosophy,” paper delivered at the First Canadian Graduate Students’ Conference in Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, October 9-11, 1987.
• “Hegel’s Critique of Scientific Realism,” invited paper presented at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, England, March 2, 1989.
• “Lonergan and Gadamer on Theology,” invited paper delivered at the Trinity College Divinity Colloquium, Toronto, January 24, 1990.
• “Adorno and Heidegger on the Role of Art in the Modern World,” paper delivered at the Fourth Annual Conference on Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, April 6-8, 1990.
• “A Copernican Revolution for the Twentieth Century and Beyond?”, paper delivered at the Second Canadian Conference on the Foundations and Applications of General Science Theory, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, May 24-25, 1990.
• “Heidegger and Aquinas on the Self as Substance,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Maritain Association, Dallas, Texas, November 4-7, 1994.
• “Hegel and Aquinas on Self-knowledge and Historicity,” paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 25-27, 1994.
• “The Skeptical Turn on the Way to German Idealism,” paper presented as part of the “Franklin J. Matchette Foundation Lecture Series” at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., September 23, 1994.
• “Political Implications of Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being,” invited paper presented to the Graduate Students’ Philosophy Club, American University, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1994.
• “Heidegger’s Critique of Liberalism: Existential Freedom versus Liberal Freedom,” invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, Rhode Island, November 10-12, 1994.
• “Self-measure and Self-limitation in Fichte’s Wissenschafslehre of 1794,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Fichte Society, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, March 16-19, 1995.
• “Is There a Moral Basis to the Law?”, invited paper presented at the Cabot House Forum, Cabot House, Harvard University, April 13, 1998.
• “Dualism and Idealism: Kant and Fichte and Beyond,” invited paper presented at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, October 19, 1998.
• “The Foundations of Rights: From Rawls to German Idealism,” invited paper presented at the University of Dallas, TX, Monday, April 17, 2000.
• “The Dialectic of the Future, the Future of the Dialectic: Goldmann on Kant’s First Critique,” paper presented at the “Recent Continental Thought and Early Modern Philosophy” Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, September 21-23, 2000.
• “Kant’s Moral Proof: Defense and Implications,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX, November 3-5, 2000.
• “Lonergan and Radical Kantianism,” paper presented at the West Coast Methods Institute Conference, on “Re-turning to the Subject,” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, March 22-25, 2001.
• “Fichte’s Impossible Contract,” paper presented at the North American Fichte Society Conference, UC San Diego, San Diego, California, March 22-25, 2001.
• “The Necessity of Embodiment in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,” paper presented at the “Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture” Conference, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 27-28, 2001.
• “Force and Idealism from Kant to Hegel,” paper presented at “Force and Understanding” Conference, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec, September 28-30, 2001.
• “From Kant to Fichte on the Grounds of Normative Social Theory,” paper presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Hegel Society group session), Atlanta, GA, December 27-30, 2001.
• Response to Presentation by Babette Babich, “Translating Nietzsche’s Imperative: Becoming the One You Are,” Inaugural Lesson, Fordham University, September 30, 2002.
• “Kant’s Copernican Experiment,” paper presented at the North American Kant Society Midwest Study Group, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 16-17, 2002.
• Response to Presentation by Hadley Arkes, “Natural Rights and the Right to Choose: How the Political Class Talked Itself Out of Natural Rights,” Natural Law Colloquium, Fordham University Law School, November 21, 2002
• Response to Paper by Craig Nichols, “Heidegger’s Transformation of Kant’s Ground of Transcendental Unity,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2002.
• “John Henry Newman: Who is the Man in the Passage?”, paper presented as part of Newman Fellows lecture series, Fordham University, April 8, 2003
• “The Paradox of Knowing and Not-Knowing in Time of War,” paper presented at “Patriotism in Time of War” Panel Discussion, Fordham University, April 15, 2003
• “What is Distinctive about Terrorism, and What are the Philosophical Implications?”, paper presented at “Understanding Terrorism” conference, Loyola Marymount University, September 11-13, 2003
• “What is Living and What is Dead in the New Natural Law Theory,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Maritain Association, Chicago, Illinois, October 16-19, 2003
• “Newman on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Houston, TX, October 31 to November 2, 2003
• “Some Problems with Rawlsian Public Reason,” paper presented at “Rawls and the Law” Conference, Fordham University Law School, Nov. 7-8, 2003
• “The Philosophical Meaning of the Movie Memento,” paper presented to the Fordham Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 17, 2003
• “The Antinomy of the Old and New Natural Law,” invited paper presented at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, February 25, 2004
• “Fichte on Understanding Kant Better Than He Understood Himself,” paper presented at the North American Fichte Society, Philadelphia, PA, April 1-4, 2004
• “Lonergan and the Critique of Immediacy.” invited paper presented at Lonergan Forum, Boston College, October 28-30, 2004
• “Reflections on Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘A Short Film about Killing,’” presentation sponsored by Literary Studies and the Office of the University Chaplain, Fordham University, November 17, 2004
• “Finding Philosophy in Popular Music: The Case of the Beatles,” paper presented at ACPA-sponsored session at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association meeting, Boston, MA, December 29, 2004
• “Idealism Before and After Royce,” paper presented at the New York Pragmatist Forum, Fordham University, January 28, 2005
• “Towards a Working Definition of Terrorism,” paper presented at the “Reason of Terror” Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium, March 18-19, 2005
• “Common Confusions about the Common Good,” paper presented at the International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 2005
• “Response to Joseph Boyle on Incommensurable Options, Self-Reference, and Free Choice,” paper presented at conference on “Natural Law and Natural Rights in Contemporary Jurisprudence,” Princeton University, September 16-17, 2005

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:

• Designer and Web-master of the Philosophy Department’s Web-page: www.fordham.edu/philosophy (since 2000)
• Member and Chair, Graduate German Language Exam Committee (since 1998)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Philosophy Department (2000-02)
• Member, Committee for the Graduate Modern Comprehensive Reading List Exam (since 1998)
• Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (2000-02; 2002-03; 2003-04)
• Member, Merit Committee (spring 2000)
• Member, Hiring Committee for Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships (summer 2001)
• Member, MAPR Program Admissions Committee (2003)
• Member of or Director on Several Ph.D. Dissertation Committees
• Adviser to several graduate student instructors
• Faculty Respondent at Graduate Student Symposium, March 21, 2000
• Faculty Advisor to Undergraduate Philosophy Club (since 2003)
• Faculty Advisor to Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, Sapientia et Doctrina (since 2003)
• Member, MAPR Examination Committee (2002, 2003, 2004)
• Member, Philosophy Department Lecture Series Committee (2002-present)
• Chair, Philosophy Department Lecture Series Committee (2005-present)
• Member, Peirce Hiring Committee, fall 2005 – spring 2006

UNIVERSITY-WIDE SERVICE:

• Freshman Adviser (1999-2002)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Freshman Advising Program (since 2001)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Service Learning Program (since 2002)
• Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Salary and Benefits (2000-2001)
• Member, Faculty Task Force on Campus Culture at Rose Hill (2001-02)
• Member, Faculty Speakers Bureau (Office of Alumni Relations)
• Member, “Faculty Fifty”
• Faculty-in-Residence, Queen’s Court Residential College (since 2001)
• Faculty Judge at “Disputatio,” Queen’s Court, April 3, 2001
• Faculty Speaker at “Parents’ University,” part of Family Weekend, September 14-16, 2001
• Faculty Speaker at “Dean’s List” Ceremony (Class of 2003), November 4, 2001
• Faculty Speaker at “Cinevents,” November 6, 2001 (talk on “A Hard Day’s Night”)
• Assistant Coach, Mock Trial Team of Fordham College at Rose Hill (since 2001)
• Faculty Chaperone, Fordham Senior Week 2002
• Fordham Representative at AJCU “Justice” Conference, October 11-12, 2002
• Faculty Advisor, Fordham U.S.G. Budget Committee (2001-02)
• Newman Fellow in the “New Fellows Series” (2002-03)
• Panelist, “Instructional Technology and Academic Computing” Spring Conference, May 14, 2003
• Participant at Fordham University Neighborhood Housing Program, June 25, 2003
• Member, Fordham University Web-presence Task Force, summer 2003
• Member, Board of Directors of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District (representing Fordham), since 2003
• Faculty Speaker at “Parents’ University,” part of Family Weekend, October 3-5, 2003
• Faculty Ballroom Dance Instructor (with wife) for residents of Queen’s Court Residential College (since 2003)
• Member, Fordham’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Web Task Force, summer 2004
• Member, Task Force #4 (on Leadership and Governance) for the University’s Middle States Self-Study Process, spring 2004 – fall 2005
• Member and Chair, University Judicial Council, Spring 2004 (5/24/04) and Fall 2004 (10/26/04)
• Fordham University Representative at Collegium:A Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Life, University of Portland, Portland, OR, June 11-18, 2004
• Member, GSAS Website Advisory Committee (summer 2004)
• External member, Promotion Committee of the Psychology Department, Fordham University (fall 2004)
• Member, Seminar on “Religious Issues and Higher Education,” sponsored by the Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University (2004-05)
• Member, Steering Committee for the University’s Middle States Self-Study and Accreditation Process, spring 2005-present
• Participant, Conference on Fordham University’s Affordable Housing Program, March 30, 2005
• Panelist on Dignitatis Humanae, Fordham Law School, April 4, 2005
  Panelist, “After-Logues,” Fordham College Rose Hill, April 11, 2005
  Encaenia Marshall, May 18, 2005
• Commencement Marshall, May 21, 2005
• Member, Committee on Health Professions, Fordham College at Rose Hill, fall 2005 - present
• Member, University Research Council, fall 2005 – present
• Member, Tenure Review and Appeals Committee, fall 2005 – present
• Panelist, “On the Road to Tenure,” Orientation for New Faculty, August 26, 2005

MEMBERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Member (since 1991), American Catholic Philosophical Association; also National Secretary (1992-93; and 1997-present), and Local Organizer for the 1995 Annual Meeting (in Washington, DC)
• Member (since 1989), Hegel Society of America; also National Secretary (since 1994) and Local Organizer for the 1994 (Washington, DC) and 2000 (New York) Biennial Conferences
• Member (since 1998), Society of Christian Philosophers; also Member of the SCP-ACPA Liaison Committee
• Member (since 1985), Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honors Society)
• Member (since 1989), Fulbright Association
• Member (since 1989), American Philosophical Association
• Member (since 1989), Canadian Philosophical Association
• Member (since 1991), Hegel Society of Great Britain
• Member (since 1991), American Association of University Professors
• Member (since 1991), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
• Member (since 1994), Lonergan Philosophical Society
• Member (since 1991), Metaphysical Society of America
• Member (since 1998), North American Kant Society, and Local Organizer for Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society (spring 2004)
• Member (since 1998), North American Fichte Society
• Member (since 1998), Federalist Society

OTHER SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

• Reviewer for various journals, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Owl of Minerva, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and for numerous presses, including Northwestern University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, SUNY Press, Catholic University of America Press, Cornell University Press, Penn State University Press, University of Notre Dame Press, and Fordham University Press
• Associate Editor, The Owl of Minerva, Journal of the Hegel Society of America
• Member, Program Committees for the 1998 (Athens, Georgia), 2000 (New York), and 2002 (Penn State) Conferences of the Hegel Society of America
• Organizer, Hegel Society Group Session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2003
• Local Organizer, Eastern Study Group Meeting of the North American Kant Society, held at Fordham University, April 16-17, 2004