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July 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE of KENNETH WILLIAM STIKKERS July 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE OF KENNETH WILLIAM STIKKERS Department of Philosophy—Mailcode 4505 Office: (618) 536-6641 Southern Illinois University FAX: (618) 453-7428 Carbondale, IL 62901 e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, DePaul University, 1982, with Distinction Dissertation: "Toward a Sociology of Space: An Analysis of Spatial Experience in Technological Society, with Special Attention to the Phenomenology of Max Scheler" Advisor: Professor Manfred S. Frings M.A., Philosophy, DePaul University, 1975 Thesis: "The Radical Empiricism of William James: Philosophical Basis for an Age of Reform" Advisor: Professor Edward Allemand M.A., American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, 1972-1973 B.A., Sec. Ed., Honors Program, summa cum laude, Social Science, DePaul University, 1972 Honors Thesis: "A History of Black Economic Development, Reconstruction to 1905" PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Southern Illinois University Carbondale Professor, Philosophy, August 1997 to present; Chair, August 1997 to August 2003 Professor, Africana Studies, August 2010 to present Courses: Dissertation Research; Supervision of Graduate Assistant Instructors; Teaching Practicum; Introduction to Teaching and the Profession; Philosophies of Liberation, Theories of Community, American and Continental; Continental Personalism; Hermeneutics: Theories of Interpretation, American and Continental; Max Scheler; Michel Foucault; William James; American Idealism; W. E. B. Du Bois and His Contemporaries; History of American Women Philosophers; American Puritanism; Intellectual Origins of American Government; American Political Theory; Philosophy of Economics/History of Economic Thought; Philosophy and Sociology; History of African American Philosophy; Philosophy of Race; Senior Thesis; Ancient Philosophy; Honors Seminar: Economics and Social Justice; Philosophy and Diversity; American Mind; Ethics; Introduction to Philosophy University of Warsaw, Poland Visiting Professor, Fall 2015 Seminar: History of American Philosophy, from Puritanism to Pragmatism Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico Professor, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, 2010 to present Seminars: Philosophy of Economics (2010); The Philosophy and Economics of Amartya Sen (2012); Amartya Sen and the Ethical Foundations of Economic Science (2013) Seattle University Professor, Philosophy, September 1996 to July 1997 Chair, Philosophy, August 1991 to August 1994 Associate Professor, Philosophy, September 1986 to September 1996 Assistant Professor, Philosophy, September 1981 to September 1986 Department of Philosophy--Courses: Thesis Research; Senior Synthesis: Philosophy and the Good Life; American Women Philosophers; Phenomenology of Religious Experience; Hannah Arendt; Michel Foucault; Birth and Death in the Nuclear Age; Economics and Social Justice; African- American Philosophy; Peace and Pacifism; American Philosophy; Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity; Gender and Social Reality; Phenomenology; Existentialism; Business Ethics; Ethics; Social/Political Philosophy; Philosophy and Psychology; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Philosophy of the Human Person; Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking Independent Studies: a. Modern Philosophy, b. Philosophy of Education, c. Dehumanization, d. Business and Social Justice, e. Language and Nature, f. Ethics and Multinational Corporations, g. Democratic Economy, h. Freud and Philosophy, i. Max Scheler, j. Philosophy of Economics, k. The Federalists, l. Afro-American Philosophy, m. Michel Foucault, f. Women in the History of Philosophy, g. African Philosophy Department of Psychology, Graduate Program--Independent Studies: a. Husserl's Ideas II, b. Scheler and Wojtyla, c. Phenomenology, d. Michel Foucault, e. Max Scheler Albers School of Business: Graduate Management Seminar--Improving Productivity and Quality of Work Life; Principles of Economics - Macro Matteo Ricci College: Senior Capstone: Social Justice and Public Policy; Economic Alternatives for Social Justice; Perspectives on the Person I; Modes of Inquiry; Western Cultural Traditions I, II, III Elderhostel: Wonder and Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy Continuing Education: Wealth and Well-Being Honorary Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994-95 Research Project: Kant's Ethics Loyola University of Chicago Lecturer, Philosophy, September 1980 to July 1981 Courses - Department of Philosophy: Action and Values - Business (Business Ethics); Action and Values - Ethics Continuing Education: Thinking More Clearly: Introduction to Informal Logic; Understanding Death and Dying DePaul University Lecturer, Philosophy, June 1977 to March 1981 Teaching Assistant, Philosophy, 1973 to 1977 Courses - Department of Philosophy: Independent Study; Death and Dying; History of American Philosophy; Sociology and Philosophy; Social Issues and Ideologies; Basic Concepts of Phenomenology; American Philosophy - Political Ideas and Pragmatism; Systems of Metaphysics; Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Love; Themes in Existential Literature; Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations; Contemporary Views of Experience; Greek Philosophy; Reflections on Person; Building a Philosophy of Life; Sources and Problems in Thinking Department of Economics: Economy and Society; Principles I - Introduction to Economics Continuing Education: Understanding Death and Dying Board of Education, Gary, Indiana--Education Consultant, Program for the Gifted, 1980. Board of Education, Chicago--Education Consultant, Program for the Gifted, 1979 to 1981. Oakton Community College (MONNACEP), Instructor, January to November 1978 Courses: Existentialism; Thinking More Clearly: An Introduction to Informal Logic Central YMCA Community College, Instructor, 1977 (Introduction to Social Sciences) Glenbrook Adult Evening School, Instructor, 1977 (Introduction to Philosophy) Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, Student Teacher, Social Studies, 1971 Courses: Contemporary American History; Modern European History Glenbrook South High School, Debate Coach, Glenview, Illinois, 1969 to 1970 VISITING AND GUEST LECTURESHIPS Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, December 1983 Lectures: "Max Scheler and the Philosophy of John Paul II"; "'Ethos' and Its Relationship to Ideal and Real Factors in Max Scheler's Sociology"; "Max Scheler's Theory of Value"; "Ethics and Nuclear Armament" University College, Cork, Ireland, Visiting Lecturer and Researcher, March-May 1979 Lecture/Seminar Series: The Social Philosophy of Max Scheler RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY Current Projects True Community: On the Enduring Influence of Puritanism on American Political Thought Pragmatic Catholicisms (under review by Fordham University Press) "Where Is the Freedom in 'Free Enterprise'?" “Jamesian Catholicism” Honors and Awards Josiah Royce Loyalty Award, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2005 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Seattle University, 1988 Project: "Economics and Ethics" Recipient, Helen Potter Award, Association for Social Economics, for the outstanding essay in social economics for 1987. Summer Faculty Fellowship, Seattle University, 1986. Project: "Max Scheler's Contributions to Social Economics" Faculty Fellowship, Seattle University, to attend Collegium Phaenomenologica, Perugia, Italy, July 1984. Summer Faculty Fellowship, Seattle University, 1982. Project: "Economics as Moral Philosophy" Arthur J. Schmitt Scholar, DePaul University, 1976. Arthur J. Schmitt Scholar, University of Minnesota, 1972-1973. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS Books Economics as Moral Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, under consideration). Co-editor (with Judith Green), Pragmatic Catholicisms (New York: Fordham University Press, under consideration). Editor, An American Urphilosophie, and Other Writings, by Robert P. Bunge (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming). Co-Editor (with Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski), Philosophy in the Time of Economic Crisis (London: Routledge, in preparation) Pasado, presente y future de las ideas utópicas: repensar las bases éticas de la economía (Utopian Visions Past, Present, and Future: Rethinking the Ethical Foundations of Economy), trans. Benito Ramírez Meza (Siglo XXI, 2013). Editor and author of “Introduction,” Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge, by Max Scheler (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). Articles “The Transvaluation of Economic into Moral Values,” Humanomics (forthcoming). "Is Free Enterprise Anti-Capitalist?—Moral Agency and Business Ethics in Market Economies," Business Ethics Quarterly (forthcoming). “The Spirit of Capitalism and the Caribbean Slave Trade,” The Pluralist 10.2 (Summer 2015): 194- 204 “Politics and the Aesthetics of Existence in the American Anarchist Tradition,” Pragmatism Today 6.1 (2015): 53-59. “Response to Bromley,” The Pluralist 10.1 (Spring 2015): 31-37. “'… But I’m Not Racist': Toward a Pragmatic Conception of 'Racism,'” Presidential Address, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, The Pluralist 9.3 (Fall 2014): 1-17. “The Great Divorce: The Freeing of Markets from Communities and from Moral Constraints,” Humanomics 30.3 (2014): 186-98. “Classical American Pragmatism and the Crisis of European Science,” Pragmatism Today 4.1 (Summer 2013): 56-62. “What’s an Economy Good for?—On the Relevance of Aristotle for 21st Century Economics,” Southwest Philosophy Review 29.1 (2013): 135-43. Editor’s Introduction to Special Issue of The Pluralist 7, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 1-6. “Intuicja i rozum w klasycznej filozofii amerykanskiej”
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