John T. Sanders

Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

Phone: 585-582-1068
FAX: 585-582-1604
e-mail: jts@rit.edu

Education

• Ph.D.: Philosophy, Boston University, January 1977.
• M.A.: Philosophy, Boston University, May 1972.
• B.A.: Philosophy and Psychology (two separate majors), Purdue University, January 1968 (Universität Hamburg, 1966-67).

Academic Experience

• Professor (1989), Associate Professor (1983), Assistant Professor (1976), Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 1976 to present (Degree Program Co-ordinator, Dept. of Philosophy, September 2008 to present. Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, September 1977 to May 1982, June 1986 to December 1988, and July 2001 to June 2004; RIT Director of Judicial Affairs, August 1987 to July 1988).
• Professor, U.S. Business School in Prague, September 1997 to June 2004. I taught an annual required course on "Ethical Issues of Business and Government" in the MBA program.
• Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000-2001.
• Outside Evaluator for undergraduate project and thesis, Marlboro College, Vermont, May 2000.
• External Dissertation Examiner, University of Waterloo, 2009; SUNY Buffalo, 2002; University of Helsinki, 1998 and 1999.
• Visiting Professor, Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1995-96.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Fall 1995 (part of the series "Inter-Nordic Graduate Courses in Philosophy").
• Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1979-80.
• Instructor, Teaching Fellow, Boston University, September 1971 to May 1974.

Other Experience

• Proposal Referee for the Central and Eastern European Research Support Scheme of the Soros Foundations Higher Education Support Programme, Prague, 1993-2000.
• Manuscript referee for MIT Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, Prentice-Hall, Wadsworth; Ecological Psychology, Ethics, Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
• Consultant to the City College of Loyola University, New Orleans (April 1995); provided a workshop on distance learning, with particular reference to computer-based communication with distant students.
• Consultant to the Instructional Telecommunications Consortium Course Development Project of The Corporation for Community College Television in Cypress, California (November 1988-February 1989); participated in design of an "Introduction to Philosophy" telecourse proposal (co-participants: James Christian, Clyde Ebemreck, Phil Hamlin, Virginia Ringer, Robert Solomon, Manuel Velasquez).
• Social Work/Psychology Specialist, U.S. Army (February 1968 to December 1970); received Bronze Star for "meritorious service" in both clinical and administrative work at the Mental Hygiene Clinic, USARV Stockade, Vietnam, September 1968-August 1969.

Books (author)

• The Ethical Argument Against Government (Washington: University Press of America, 1980).

Books (editor)

• Soul and Form by Georg Lukács, translated by Anna Bostock, with an introduction by Judith Butler, co-edited with Katie Terezakis (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2009).
  
• Memperdebatkan Status Filsafat Kontemporer Habermas, Rorty, dan Kolakowsky, co-edited with Józef Niznik (Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Qalam, 2002) – translation of Debating the State of Philosophy, below.
• Debate sobre la situación de la filosofía: Habermas, Rorty y Kolakowski, co-edited with Józef Niznik (Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2000) – translation of Debating the State of Philosophy, below.
• Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski, co-edited with Józef Niznik (Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 1996).
• For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings, co-edited with Jan Narveson (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
• Niels Bohr: Essays and Papers, two volumes, 840 pp. Manuscript archive, 1987; deposited at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen, the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the Baillien Library at the University of Melbourne, the Edelstein Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Science Museum Library in London, the Institute of Technology Library at the University of Minnesota, the Accademia Nazionale della Scienze in Rome, the Widener Library at Harvard University, the Centre de documentation in Paris, the Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh, the Deutsches Museum Library in Munich, the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia, the Biblioteca Universitaria at Madrid, and the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University.
• The Philosopher's Annual, Volume V, co-edited with David L. Boyer and Patrick Grim (Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview, 1984).
• The Philosopher's Annual, Volume IV, co-edited with Boyer and Grim (Atascadero: Ridgeview, 1981).
• The Philosopher's Annual, Volume III, co-edited with Boyer and Grim (Atascadero: Ridgeview, 1980).
• The Philosopher's Annual, Volume II, co-edited with Boyer and Grim (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979).
• The Philosopher's Annual, Volume I, co-edited with Boyer and Grim (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978).

Articles

• "On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter." Translation of "Von der Armut am Geiste," by Georg Lukács, forthcoming in John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis (eds.), Soul and Form by Georg Lukács, translated by Anna Bostock, with an introduction by Judith Butler (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). This is a republication of "On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter" (1972), below.
• "'Von der Armut am Geiste': A Dialogue by the Young Lukács." Translation (with Jane E. Sanders) of "Von der Armut am Geiste; ein Dialog des jungen Lukács," by Ágnes Heller, forthcoming in Katie Terezakis (ed.) Engaging Agnes Heller: A Critical Companion (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009). This is a republication of "'Von der Armut am Geiste': A Dialogue by the Young Lukács" (1972), below.
  
• "Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional Codes of Ethics," in Fritz Allhof and Anand J. Vaidya, eds., Professions in Ethical Focus: An Anthology (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2008), pp. 28-40. This is a republication of "Honor Among Thieves"(1993), below.
  
• "Contracting Justice", in Malcolm Murray (ed.), Liberty, Games, and Contracts: Jan Narveson and the Defence of Libertarianism (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 19-32.
• "Benjamin Franklin and the League of the Haudenosaunee," in The Philosophical Age, Almanac 32: Benjamin Franklin and Russia, to the Tercentenary of His Birth, vol. 2 (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas, 2006), pp. 143-62.
• "Retinae Don't See", in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 27, no. 6 (December 2004), pp. 890-91.
• "Projects and Property," in David Schmidtz (ed.), Robert Nozick (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 34-58.
• "Comentarios sobre el debate Habermas/Rorty," and "Comentarios sobre filosofía y los dilemas del mundo contemporáneo," two short parts of longer discussions including other authors, in Józef Niznik and John T. Sanders (eds.), Debate sobre la situación de la filosofía: Habermas, Rorty y Kolakowski (Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2000), pp. 124-27 and 159-60.
• "Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy," in Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 121-41.
• "Knowledge and Description: Bohr's Epistemology," in Jan Such and Malgorzata Szczesniak (eds.), Z epistemologii wiedzy naukowej (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii, 1998), pp. 137-46.
• "Stan bezpanstwowosci. Apologia anarchizmu filozoficznego," in Tadeusz Buksinski (ed.), Idee Filozoficzne w Polityce (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii, 1998), pp. 137-54.
• "Incommensurability and Demarcation," in Dane R. Gordon and Józef Niznik (eds.), Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 83-103.
• "A Mixed Bag: Political Change in Central and Eastern Europe and its Impact on Philosophical Thought," in Dane R. Gordon (ed.), Philosophy in Post-Communist Europe (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 35-42.
• "Reflections on the Value of Freedom," in Sirkku Hellsten, Marjaana Kopperi and Olli Loukola (eds.), Taking the Liberal Challenge Seriously: Essays on Contemporary Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1997), pp. 260-88.
• "An Ontology of Affordances," Ecological Psychology, vol. 9, no. 1 (1997): 97-112.
• "Stanislaw Lesniewski's Logical Systems," Axiomathes, vol. vii, no. 3, (December 1996): 407-15.
• "Idealy rozumu, prawdy i moralnosci wydaja sie miec pragmatyczn wartosc," and "Uwagi na temat filozofii i dylematów wspólczesnego swiata," two short parts of longer discussions including other authors, in Józef Niznik (ed.), Habermas, Rorty, Kolakowski: Stan filozofii wspólczesnej (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IfiS Pan, 1996), pp. 129-31 and 167-68.
• "Comments on the Habermas/Rorty Debate," and "Comments on Philosophy and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary World," two short parts of longer discussions including other authors, in Józef Niznik and John T. Sanders (eds.), Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski (Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 1996), pp. 92-94 and 119-20.
• "The State of Statelessness," in John T. Sanders and Jan Narveson (eds.), For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), 255-88.
• "Risk and Value," A.S.V.I. News: The Newsletter of the American Society for Value Inquiry, Spring 1996, pp. 4-5.
• "An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Science," The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Issue 4 (Spring, 1996). URL http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1996.spring/sanders.1996.spring.html
• "The Attractiveness of Risk," American Society for Value Inquiry Newsletter, Fall 1994.
• "Rozmaitosci: zmiany polityczne w Europie i ich wplyw na mysl filozoficzna," in Tadeusz Buksinski (ed.), Filozofia w dobie przemian (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii Uniwersytety im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1994), 177-86.
• "How Ethical Is Investigative Testing?," Employment Testing Law & Policy Reporter, vol. 3, no. 2 (February 1994): 17-23, 35.
• "Merleau-Ponty on Meaning, Materiality, and Structure," The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 25, no. 1 (January 1994): 96-100.
• "Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the Materiality of Meaning," Man and World 26 (July 1993): 287-302.
• "Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional Codes of Ethics," Professional Ethics, vol. 2, nos. 3 & 4 (Spring/Summer 1993): 83-103.
• "Gibsonian 'Affordances' and Ontology," in Nicola Guarino and Roberto Poli (eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation (Padova: Ladseb-CNR, 1993).
• "Assessing Responsibility: Fixing Blame versus Fixing Problems," Business & Professional Ethics Journal, vol 12, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 73-86.
• "The Myths of Academia: Open Inquiry and Funded Research," with Wade L. Robison, Journal of College and University Law, vol. 19, no. 3 (Winter 1993): 227-50.
• "Research Funding and the Value-Dependence of Science," with Wade L. Robison, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 33-50.
• "On 'Cuteness'," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 32, no. 2 (April 1992): 162-65.
• "The Value of Freedom", Proceedings of The Creighton Club (The New York State Philosophical Association) (Fall 1988).
• "Why the Numbers Should Sometimes Count," Philosophy & Public Affairs (Winter 1988): 3-14.
• "Are There Any 'Communications Anomalies'?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 10, no. 4 (December 1987): 607-08.
• "Justice and the Initial Acquisition of Property," The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring 1987): 367-99.
• "Experience, Memory and Intelligence," The Monist, vol. 68, no. 4 (October 1985): 507-21.
• "Political Authority," The Monist, vol. 66, no. 4 (October 1983): 545-56.
• "The Free Market Model Versus Government: A Reply to Nozick," Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 1977): 35-44.
• "On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter." Translation of "Von der Armut am Geiste," by Georg Lukács, The Philosophical Forum, Spring-Summer 1972.
• "'Von der Armut am Geiste': A Dialogue by the Young Lukács." Translation (with Jane E. Sanders) of "Von der Armut am Geiste; ein Dialog des jungen Lukács," by Ágnes Heller, The Philosophical Forum, Spring-Summer 1972.

Audio/Visual

• "Introduction to Philosophy" (Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, revised 2007). Video CD telecourse consisting of ten of my own lectures plus a guest lecture by William Rowe.
• "Professional Ethics" (Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, revised 2006). Video CD telecourse, consisting of eleven two-hour classes, including ten of my own lectures plus guest lectures (William Johnson, Albert Simone) and materials produced by the Applied Ethics Project at Carnegie Mellon University.
• "Social and Political Philosophy" (Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, revised 2005). Video CD telecourse, consisting of ten of my own lectures plus guest lectures by N. Scott Arnold, James S. Fishkin, Victoria Kamsler, Richard Miller, Jan Narveson, David Schmidtz, and Jonathan Wolff.
• "An Introduction to Philosophy of Science" (Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, revised 2005). Video CD telecourse consisting of eleven of my own lectures plus guest lectures and guest interviews with several prominent philosophers of science (Richard Boyd, David Hull, Jon Jarrett, Henry Kyburg, Ernan McMullin).
• "Dimensions of Scientific Thought," a two-tape audio script in the cassette series "Science and Discovery" (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1994). Narrated by Edwin Newman with cast.
• "A New Understanding of the Atom," a two-tape audio script in the cassette series "Science and Discovery" (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1993). Narrated by Edwin Newman with cast.
• "Einstein's Revolution," a two-tape audio script in the cassette series "Science and Discovery" (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1993). Narrated by Edwin Newman with cast.
• "The Story of Electricity," a two-tape audio script in the cassette series "Science and Discovery" (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1993). Narrated by Edwin Newman with cast.
• "Medieval Science," a two-tape audio script in the cassette series "Science and Discovery" (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1992). Narrated by Edwin Newman with cast.

Presentations

• "Benjamin Franklin and the League of the Haudenosaunee." Read and discussed at a conference on "Benjamin Franklin and Russia: to the Tercentenary of His Birth", St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas, Russia, 22-24 June 2006.
• "Dynamical Systems and Scientific Method." Presented to the Department of Theory of Knowledge and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, June 2006.
  
• "Philosophical Foundations for the Ecological Approach." Part of an "author meets critics" session on Harry Heft's Ecological Psychology in Context held at the meetings of the William James Society, Boston, December 2004.
• "Material, Form and Art: The Generation of Freedom." Read and discussed at the meetings of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, Boston, December 2004.
• "Hayek's Philosophy." Part of a panel discussion on "Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom", Rochester Institute of Technology, December 2004.
• Comments on Patrick Grim, "Concrete Images for Abstract Questions: A Philosophical View." Part of a conference on "Rethinking Theories & Practices of Imaging: Technology, Representation, and the Disciplines", Rochester Institute of Technology, April 2004.
• "From Perception to Metaphysics: Berkeley and Merleau-Ponty." Presented at SUNY Buffalo, March 2002. Previous versions were discussed at an NEH Summer Seminar at Brown University on "Thomas Reid on Perception, Knowledge, and Action," July 2000, and at a departmental colloquium within the Philosophy Department at RIT, September 2000.
• "Projects and Property." Presented at West Virginia University, April 1999. Earlier versions were read and discussed at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, April 1998, at a faculty colloquium at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, April 1997, at the meetings of the Ockham Society, Oxford University, February 1994, at the meetings of the International Society for Value Inquiry, Moscow, August 1993, and at the Tenth International Social Philosophy Conference, University of Helsinki, August 1993. A much earlier draft was discussed at a meeting of the Rochester Area Political Thought Forum, University of Rochester, February 1983.
• "The State of Statelessness." Presented at West Virginia University, April 1999. An earlier version was discussed at Oxford University, April 1996, at University College London, May 1996, and at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna , Poland, March 1996. A much earlier version was read and discussed at the Annual Conference of the Northern New England Philosophy Association, Plymouth State College, New Hampshire, October 1993.
• "Enlightenment as Ideology." A four lecture series, part of a Summer School for Younger Scholars conducted by the St. Petersburg Centre for the History of Ideas, Russian Academy of Sciences, June-July 1998.
• Invited discussion group leader for a special conference group considering Henry Sidgwick's "The Aims and Methods of an Ethical Society," Seventh Annual Conference, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Dallas, February 1998.
• "General versus Special Rights to Property." Presented and discussed at a workshop organized by the Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, October 1997.
• "An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Science." Presented and discussed at the Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY at Buffalo, October 1996, and in a very different version at the Eighth International Conference on Event Perception and Action, Marseille, July 1995.
• "Castles Made of Sand." Read and discussed at the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, May 1996. Much earlier versions were presented at a SUNY College at Geneseo celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution, April 1987, and at the Third Libertarian Scholars Conference, New York City, October 1975.
• "Political Authority." Read and discussed at a conference on "Anarchy, Minarchy or Limited Government?" sponsored by the Libertarian Alliance, London, May 1996.
• "An Ontology of Affordances: A Critical Consideration of Some Recent Proposals." Read and discussed at the Department of Psychology, the University of Portsmouth, UK, April 1996. An earlier version was read and discussed at the North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Smith College, Massachusetts, October 1993.
• "Stanislaw Lesniewski's Logical Systems." Read and discussed at a conference on "The Lvov-Warsaw Philosophical School and Contemporary Philosophy," held by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in both Lvov, Ukraine, and Warsaw, Poland, November 1995.
• "Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy." Read and discussed at the University of Helsinki, November 1995, and at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, February 1994. A much earlier version was read and discussed at the Fifth International Conference on Event Perception and Action, Miami University, Ohio, July 1989.
• "Incommensurability and Demarcation." Read and discussed at a conference on "Criticism and Defence of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy" held at Radziejowice, Poland, under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, September 1995. Various earlier versions were read and discussed at a symposium on "Philosophy and Natural Science", Rochester Institute of Technology, November 1988, at SUNY College at Geneseo, February 1979, and at the Symposium on Methodology in the Social Sciences, University of Delaware, November 1977.
• "Elements of Risk." Part of a panel discussion on "Risk and Risk Assessment" for the meetings of the American Society for Value Inquiry, Kansas City, Missouri, May 1994.
• "Research and Teaching via Internet." Part of a panel discussion on "The Implications of Hitching a Ride on the Superhighway" for an RIT Faculty Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 1994.
• "Justice and the Initial Acquisition of Property." Read and discussed at University College London, March 1994. Much earlier versions were read and discussed at a Philosophy Department Colloquium at SUNY College at Geneseo, April 1981, and at the Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, California, August 1980.
• "Ethics in Professional Life." Presented at the Rochester Institute of Technology, February 1994.
• "A Mixed Bag: Political Change in Europe and its Impact on Philosophical Thought." Read and discussed at a symposium on Philosophy in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Rochester Institute of Technology, January 1994.
• "Reality and Berkeley's God." Presented at the 19th World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, August 1993.
• "Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional Codes of Ethics." Read and discussed at the meetings of The Creighton Club (The New York State Philosophical Association), Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, April 1993.
• "Gibsonian 'Affordances' and Ontology." Discussed at the International Workshop on Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, Padova, Italy, March 1993. An earlier version was read and discussed at SUNY College at Geneseo, October 1991.
• "Assessing Responsibility: Fixing Blame versus Fixing Problems." Read and discussed at the Second Annual Conference, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, University of Maryland, March 1993.
• Comments on V.V. Raman, "Physics and Reality." RIT Faculty Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, February 1993.
• "The Primacy of the Particular and the Extraction of Law: A Contribution to the Radical Critique of Radical Critique." Discussed at the meetings of the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 1992.
• "Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the Materiality of Meaning." Read and discussed at the Seventeenth Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, Saint Joseph College, Connecticut, September 1992.
• "The Myths of Academia: Open Inquiry and Funded Research," with Wade L. Robison. Read and discussed at the First National Conference, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, March 1992.
• "The Value of Freedom." Discussed at the meetings of the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, University of Utah, October 1990. Portions were also read and discussed at the Annual Conference of the Northern New England Philosophy Association, Keene State College, New Hampshire, October 1990, the meetings of The Creighton Club (The New York State Philosophical Association), Skaneateles, October 1988, and at a symposium on "The Objective and the Subjective", Rochester Institute of Technology, November 1986.
• "Human Rights Violations: A Challenge to Left and Right." Presented as part of a panel discussion, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 1989.
• "Knowledge and Description: Bohr's Epistemology." Read and discussed at SUNY College at Buffalo, April 1988, and at the Niels Bohr Centennial Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1985.
• Comments on John Morreall, "Cuteness." Eastern Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Albany, New York, April 1988.
• Comments on Earl Conee, "Why Moral Dilemmas Are Impossible." The Creighton Club (The New York State Philosophical Association), Skaneateles, October 1987.
• "Why the Numbers Should Sometimes Count." Read and discussed at the meetings of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Chicago, April 1987, and at a symposium on "Ethics and the Conduct of Life", Rochester Institute of Technology, January 1987.
• "On Time." Read and discussed at a symposium on "Time and Time-Travel Conceptions", Rochester Institute of Technology, February 1985.
• "Memory and Intelligence." Read and discussed at a symposium on "Artificial Intelligence", Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1984.
• Comments on Jonathan Schonsheck, "Hobbling Ideas and Unfettered Expression: First Amendment Rights and Restrictions." The Creighton Club (The New York State Philosophical Association), Cazenovia, May 1981.
• "Some Remarks on Scientific Method." Read before the Physics Department Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1977.

Conferences Organized

• Symposium on "Political and Social Philosophy", Rochester Institute of Technology, April 1998 (N. Scott Arnold, James S. Fishkin, Victoria Kamsler, Richard Miller, Jan Narveson, and David Schmidtz.). Co-sponsored by the Institute of Humane Studies at George Mason University.
• Panel on "Anarchism" for the meetings of the International Society for Value Inquiry, University of Helsinki, August 1993 (Guy Axtell, Jan Narveson, Kirill O. Thompson, Aviezer Tucker, Naomi Zack).
• Conference on "University and Community", Rochester Institute of Technology, January 1993 (Patricia Durr, Keith Frome, Dane Gordon, Diane Hope, William Johnson, Isaac Jordan, Barbara Letvin, Richard Miller, John Scott, Warren Schaich, Albert Simone, Kenneth Weimar).
• Symposium on "Philosophy of Science", Rochester Institute of Technology, November 1991 (David Hull, Henry Kyburg, Ernan McMullin).
• Conference on "Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning University Research", with Wade Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1991 (Tom Beauchamp, Deni Elliott, B. Robert Kreiser, Mark Myers, John Shattuck, Nicholas Steneck).
• Mini-Symposium on "Philosophy of Science", Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1991 (Richard Boyd, Jon Jarrett).
• Symposium on "Philosophy and Natural Science", Rochester Institute of Technology, November 1988 (Philip Gasper, Jagdish Hattiangadi, Justin Schwartz, Jeremy Shearmur).
• Symposium on "Objectivity and Subjectivity", Rochester Institute of Technology, November 1986 (C.B. Martin, John Morreall, V.V. Raman, Fred Wilson).

Grants and Awards

• Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000-2001.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Brown University on "Thomas Reid on Perception, Knowledge, and Action," directed by James Van Cleve, July-August 2000.
• United States Information Agency Grant #G-880-0078 ($3000) in support of my lecture series in Russia for the St. Petersburg Centre for the History of Ideas, Russian Academy of Sciences, June-July 1998.
• Institute for Humane Studies matching grant ($2500) in support of a symposium on "Political and Social Philosophy" held at the Rochester Institute of Technology, April 1998. In addition to the IHS funding, this symposium was supported by $5000 in contributions from various RIT sources.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at the University of California at Santa Cruz on "How Background Practices Produce Intelligibility: Contrasting Conceptions," directed by Hubert Dreyfus and David Hoy, June-July 1997.
• Fulbright Scholar Award #95-65079 (approximately $52,000), in support of my year as Visiting Professor in the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1995-96.
• Rotary International Grant for University Teachers to Serve in Developing Countries ($10,000), in further support of my year in Poland, 1995-96.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at the University of California at Santa Cruz on "Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature & Culture," directed by Hubert Dreyfus and David Hoy, June-August 1994.
• New York Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant #93-M-006 ($1500) in support of a Special RIT Conference on "University and Community", 14-15 January 1993. In addition to the Mini-Grant, I assembled more than $3000 in additional support built from smaller contributions that came from various RIT student, faculty, and administrative organizations.
• New York Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant #91-M-061 ($1500), with Wade L. Robison, in support of a Special RIT Conference on "Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning University Research", 30 September - 1 October 1991. In addition to the Mini-Grant, we assembled more than $6000 in additional support built from smaller contributions that came from various RIT student, faculty, and administrative organizations.
• Productivity Grant ($14,500) from the Rochester Institute of Technology for development of the telecourse "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science", 1991-92; supplemented by approximately $4000 via Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant to RIT.
• Lon L. Fuller Prize in Jurisprudence, Institute for Humane Studies, 1986.
• Summer Research Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, California, 9 June - 23 August 1980.
• Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1979-80.
• Summer Research Seminar on Political Philosophy, Reason Foundation, Santa Barbara, California, 4 June - 31 August 1979.