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Curriculum Vitae David Schweickart 3/4/14 CURRICULUM VITAE DAVID SCHWEICKART 3/4/14 Contents : Education and Academic Employment…1 Publications…2 Books…2 Articles…3 Book Reviews…6 Internet Postings…11 Presentations…12 TV, Radio, Conference Calls and YouTube Appearances…36 Print Interviews, Consultations, Scholars Hosted and Other Scholarly Activities…38 Honors and Awards… 40 Professional Activities…41 Editorial Service…41 Manuscripts Reviewed…41 Positions Held in Professional Organizations…43 Outside Evaluator for Promotion and Tenure Cases…46 Workshops…47 Departmental and University Service (Partial Listing)…47 Community Service, Academically-Related . 49 Dissertations Directed…49 Recent Teaching-Related Service…50 Responses to My Work…53 Teaching Expertise…54 EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Attended the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1960-64 Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Mathematics Awarded a three-year National Defense Education Act Fellowship for graduate study in mathematics at the University of Virginia Attended the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 1964-69 Awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics, August 1969 Dissertation: Complex Bordism Rings of Periodic Maps Advisor: P. E. Conner Attended Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1970-75 Taught part-time in the Mathematics Department, 1970-75 Received M.A. in Philosophy, 1972 2 Awarded Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1977 7 Dissertation: Capitalism: A Utilitarian Analysis Advisor: James Scanlan Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 1969-70 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, 1975-80. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, 1981-1991. Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, 1992-present. Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire: fall semester, 1985; academic year 1986-87. Taught at the Loyola University Rome Center: 1987-88; 1994-5; 1999-2000; summer 2005 PUBLICATIONS: A. Books After Capitalism, 2nd Edition, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. After Capitalism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002; Chinese translation (Beijing: Social Science Documentation Publishing House, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2005); Slovak translation (Spolku Slovenskych Spisovatelov, 2010) Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists. New York: Routledge, 1998, coauthored with Bertell Ollman, Hillel Ticktin and James Lawler. Chinese translation, Xinhua Publishing House, 2000. [My lead essay in this volume, “Market Socialism: A Defense” has been reprinted in Michael Howard, ed. Socialism (New York: Routledge, 2001.] Against Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; paperback edition published by Westview Press, 1996; Spanish translation, <<Más allá del capitalismo>>, published by Sal Terrae (Santander, Spain), 1997; Chinese translation, published by Renmin University Press (Beijing) in 2003. “Simplified-Chinese” translation, co-published by Cambridge University Press and China Renmin University Press, 2013. [The subsection of Chapter Five entitled “Meaningful Work” has been reprinted in Kory Schaff, ed., Philosophy and the Problems of Work (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001]. 3 Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal. New York: Praeger, 1980; paperback edition 1982. [Chapter One has been reprinted in John Arthur and William Shaw, eds. Justice and Economic Distribution (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1991).] B. Articles “Tired of Capitalism? Here’s Something Different” PA (Political Analysis)–Denmark “An Economic Democracy Reform Agenda,” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (forthcoming). “Nonsense on Stilts: Michael Albert’s Parecon,” and “I Still Think It’s Nonsense,” in Chris Spannos and Mandisi Majavu, eds. Hope, Reason and Revolution: Debates and Exchanges with Michael Albert (AK Press, forthcoming). “Preface” to Zhang Jiaxin, A History of Economic Thought on Labor Self-Management, Beijing: Social Science Documentation Publishing House, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2013), pp. “Economic and Environmental Crises: Causes, Deep Causes, Solutions,”PAPELES de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global (in Spanish translation), No. 118 (2012): 31-44. “Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy?” in Thad Williamson and Martin O’Neill, Property Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, (Blackwell-Wiley, 2012): 201-222. “But What Is Your Alternative?” Reflections on Having a ‘Plan’” in Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton eds. , Taking Socialism Seriously (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012): 47-66. “Reading Legitimation Crisis During the Meltdown,” Social Philosophy Today v. 27: (2011): 4-28. “Yes, There Is an Alternative,” in Antoni Comín and Luca Gervasoni, eds. Democràcia económica: Vers una alternative al capitalisme (forthcoming?) “Forward to the Slovak Edition of After Capitalism (Bratislava: The Association of Slovak Writers, Ltd., 2011) “Yes, Virginia, There Is an Alternative,” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 10 (2011): 173-93. 4 “Last Word on Capitalism: Responses to Walter Branson and Hunter Lewis,” World Watch “La critica democrática de Marx al capitalismo y la estrategia china de desarrollo,” Temas, no. 60 (October-December, 2009): 25-36 “A New Capitalism or a New World?” World Watch (Sept/Oct 2009): 12-19. “Is Capitalism Sustainable? The Case of China,” Selected Papers of the Beijing Forum 2008 (2009) [Also published in Chinese translation in International Politics Quarterly (v. 30, n. 2, Summer 2009): 94-111.] “A New Vision of Economic Democracy, Or: What To Do When the Bailout Fails” Tikkun (May/June 2009): 30-36.. “Is ‘Sustainable Capitalism’ an Oxymoron?” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology v. 8, no. 2-3 (2009): 557-78. [Full version] “Global Poverty: Alternative Perspectives on What We Should Do–and Why,” Journal of Social Philosophy (Winter 2008): 471-491. “Is Sustainable Capitalism an Oxymoron?” Sythesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought,” (Fall 2008): 7-11. [Short version] “There Is an Alternative: Economic Democracy and Participatory Economics, A Debate,” [with Michael Albert] in Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet eds. Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei (Chicago: Changemakers Publications, 2008):47-82 “A Socialist Vision,” Dialogue and Initiative (Winter 2007): 4-7. “China: Market Socialist or Capitalist?” in Alternative Globalizations Conference Documents, ed. Jerry Harris (Chicago: ChangeMakers Publications, 2007), pp. 162-78. “Democratic Socialism,” in Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, ed. Gary Anderson and Kathryn Herr (Sage Publishers, 2007). Vol 1, pp. 445-48. “You Can’t Get There from Here: Reflections on the Beijing Consensus” (In Chinese translation) in China Model and the Beijing Consensus, ed. Yu Keping (Beijing: China Social Science Literature Press, 2006): pp. 72-98. “Stakeholders and Terrorists: On Carol Gould’s Democratizing Globalization and Human Rights,” in Philosophy Against Empire, eds. Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, Radical Philosophy Today, v. 4 (Philosophical Documentation Center, 2006). 5 “Debt and Deception: Review Essay on John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Noreena Hertz, The Debt Threat,” Business Ethics Quarterly, v. 17, n. 1 (2007): 145-159. “Does Historical Materialism Imply Socialism?” Reason and Emancipation: Essays in Honor of Kai Nielsen, Michel Seymour and Matthias Fitsch, eds. (Humanities Books, 2006): 196-207. “A Socialist Vision,” Dialogue and Initiative, December, 2006: 5-8. “Visions of Regional Economies in a Great Transition World” (co-authored with Richard Rosen), Great Transitions Initiative (2006). [This thirty-five page paper may be downloaded from the New Paper Series on the GTI website, gtiniative.org] “Postscript to ‘Economic Democracy: A Worthy Socialism that Would Really Work,’” (in Spanish translation) in Derecho a Decidir: Propuestas para el Socialismo del Siglo III, ed. Joaquín Arriola, (Caracas: El Viejo Topo, 2006), pp. 67-92. “Democracy,” in Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton, eds., Toward a New Socialism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 311-324. Sections from “Marx’s Democratic Critique of Capitalism and Its Implications for China’s Development Strategy,” Teaching and Research No. 10 (2005), pp, 16-21 [in Chinese] (The paper was delivered at the Conference on Marxism and Social Development in China, Renmin University, Beijing, China, June 18, 2005.) “Preface to the Chinese Edition of After Capitalism,” Beijing: Social Science Documentation Publishing House, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2005. “Marx’s Democratic Critique of Capitalism and Its Implications for China’s Developmental Trajectory,” Teaching and Research, No. 10, 2005, pp. 16-21 (In Chinese translation) “Some Aspects of Market Socialism: A Dialogue with David Schweickart,” Foreign Theoretical Trends, no. 1 (2005): 18-22 [In Chinese] “Successor-System Theory as an Orienting Devise: Trying to Understand China,” Nature, Society, Thought, vol. 17, no. 4 (2004): 389-413, and La Pensée [France] n. 341(January-March, 2005) [in French translation]. “Historical Materialism and the Case for (One Kind of) Market Socialism,” (translated into French), Le socialisme de marché à la choisée des chemins, ed. Tony Andréani, (Paris: Le temps des cerises, 2003), pp. 71-94. 6 “Preface to the Chinese Edition of Against Capitalism, (Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2003), pp. 1-9. “In What May We Hope?” New Ground: Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (July-August 2003), pp.
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