Peter Hewitt Hare (1935-2008)

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Peter Hare died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of Thursday, January 3, 2008. At the time of his death he was Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he taught from 1962 to 2001. Dr. Hare received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1965, and his scholarly output ranged widely across American philosophy and fields of philosophy from epistemology and metaphysics to social and political thought. Hare played a major role in the life of his department at Buffalo and in the field of American philosophy. While at Buffalo, he was department chair during 1971-75 and 1985-94. Hare was the guiding light of the philosophy journal Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, serving as co-editor from 1974 until his death. He also served as President of several philosophical organizations, including the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (1988-90), which gave him its highest honor, the Herbert W. Schneider Award in 1996. A session devoted to his contributions to the study of American philosophy will be held at the March SAAP meeting at Michigan State University. A memorial celebration will be held at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, N.Y. on March 29, 2008.

Announcement: Peter Hare Memorial Celebration

A Memorial Celebration for Peter Hare, recently deceased professor emeritus of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, will be held at 2pm on March 29, 2008 at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York. More details about Peter and this celebration, including a tentative schedule, directions to the Center for Inquiry, and local accommodations, are at www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/hare.htm#mem. The organizers invite Peter’s friends to speak at this celebration. We especially encourage attention drawn to the diversity of Peter’s intellectual and aesthetic pursuits. We are also seeking photography relating to Peter: photos taken while traveling with him, or photos of things that he enjoyed, or of Peter himself. Please RSVP your interest in attending and/or speaking to John Shook at jshook@pragmatism.org   If you are connected in some way with the Buffalo philosophy department, please also contact Chair John Kearns to schedule speaking time. Furthermore, we are collecting written statements (and in electronic form as well) for presentation at the memorial, and preservation afterwards for the family. 

 

 

 

 

 

On this page:

Obituary, released to the media
The Career of Peter H. Hare, by John R. Shook
1996 Herbert W. Schneider Award Citation: Peter H. Hare, by Edward Madden
Peter Hare's CV, updated

Links:

University at Buffalo Philosophy Department, with condolence messages from colleagues
Peter Hewitt Hare: A Personal Remembrance, by Randall Dipert
Remembering My Life with Peter Hare, by John Corcoran

Peter Hare Memorial Celebration
March 29, 2008 at 2pm
Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, New York

Tentative schedule
The primary types of memorial speakers are: the Hare family and friends of the family; the UB Philosophy Department; other UB departments; scholars from around the country and the world; and other friends in the Western New York region. There will also be a multimedia presentation of visual and musical themes relating to Peter. The organizers invite Peter’s friends to speak at this celebration. We especially encourage attention drawn to the diversity of Peter’s intellectual and aesthetic pursuits. We are also seeking photography relating to Peter: photos taken while traveling with him, or photos of things that he enjoyed, or of Peter himself. Please RSVP your interest in attending and/or speaking to John Shook at jshook@pragmatism.org.
                If you are connected in some way with the Buffalo philosophy department, please also contact Chair John Kearns to schedule speaking time. Furthermore, we are collecting written statements (and in electronic form as well) for presentation at the memorial, and preservation afterwards for the family. 

Directions to the Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry is located at 1310 Sweet Home Road, across from the University at Buffalo north campus. If traveling by highway, take I290 to the I990, and then take the second exit for Sweet Home Road South.

Local accommodations
The Center for Inquiry is fifteen minutes from the Buffalo-Niagara airport. The following hotels are close to the Center for Inquiry. Contact them directly to reserve a room. 

Hotel Indigo, 10 Flint Rd., Amherst, 14226                            (716) 689-4414

Red Roof Inn, 42 Flint Road, Amherst, NY 14226                  (716) 689-7474

Motel 6, 4400 Maple Road, Amherst, NY 14226                    (716) 834-2231

Marriot Hotel, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst, NY 14221     (716) 689-6900

 

Obituary of Peter H. Hare

Peter H. Hare, philosopher and educator, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, died peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of Thursday, January 3, 2008 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut. Born in New York City on March 12, 1935, son of the late Jane Perry and Michael Meredith Hare, Peter is survived by his second wife, the poet Susan Howe, a brother Michael, a sister Sarah, his son Clare, daughter Gwen, and grandchildren Danielle and Monty, and numerous friends and students. His first wife Daphne Hare preceded him in death in 1995.

While an undergraduate at Yale University, Peter Hare began his life-long relationship with philosophy, writing a thesis on Alfred North Whitehead as an exemplar of multi-disciplinary integration. After graduating from Yale, he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia University where he wrote a dissertation on G. H. Mead’s metaphysics.

At the age of 36, Dr. Hare was appointed Full Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo. His experience working with a heterogeneous group of Marxists, logicians, linguists, and Americanists inspired him to continue the work of bringing together disparate strands of 20th century thought into a unified vision of a modern philosophy department.

Through his own writings and teachings, Hare left an indelible impact upon the history of American philosophy, helping to draw the works of C.S. Peirce, G. H. Mead, William James, A. N. Whitehead, and John Dewey into international centrality. As a committed educator, editor, and participant in professional organizations, he never ceased in the work of bringing together disparate stands of philosophy, literature, poetry and art. He was an accomplished photographer, and at his death he was at work photographing the Central Park neighborhood of Buffalo for a publication about the architecture of that area. Many of his works hang on view at the Philosophy Department where he taught for so many years.

Dr. Hare traveled widely in the service of philosophy. Among other posts, he served as President of the New York State Philosophy Association, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, and the William James Society. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of the rich diversity of the American tradition. Since the early 1970s he was co-editor of the Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy. He was editor or co-editor of numerous volumes, and he was author of more than one hundred articles in scholarly journals.

A man of abiding pragmatism, optimism, kindness, enthusiasm, generosity and energy, Dr. Hare will be remembered by students, philosophers, and people of every walk of life, from Poland and Russia, to South America to Buffalo.

Funeral services will be private. A commemoration of Peter Hare’s life will be held in the Spring at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York. Donations may be made in his memory to the Philosophy Department Resource Fund at the University at Buffalo, 135 Park Hall, Buffalo, New York, 14260.

 

The Career of Peter H. Hare

by John R. Shook, PhD Buffalo 1994

            

            Hare earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University where, from the long years of Dewey’s residence to the present day, pragmatic naturalism has thrived. Among Hare’s teachers were John Herman Randall, Jr., Herbert W. Schneider, and Justus Buchler, who were the inheritors of Dewey’s naturalistic perspective and each a major contributor to American philosophy in general and to naturalism in particular. Other prominent graduates from Columbia University who have enriched the tradition of pragmatic naturalism with their own thought include Irwin Edman, Sidney Hook, Abraham Edel, Joseph Blau, John E. Smith, H. S. Thayer, Paul Kurtz, Joseph Margolis, Ralph Sleeper, Isaac Levi, Stephen Ross, Steven Cahn, Joseph Ransdell, Beth Singer, James Gouinlock, and Naomi Zack. The list of their students who in turn have been imbued with respect for American philosophy would run many pages; it suffices to say that at the start of new century, pragmatic naturalism flourishes as a viable and vocal alternative worldview.

A good measure of credit for this flourishing, both nationally and internationally, belongs to Peter Hare. During the recent decades of dominance by other philosophical schools, at a time when mere survival would have been sufficiently astonishing, the voice of classical American philosophy only grew more powerful. This voice had its own forum, the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, and this forum was somehow always large enough to accommodate quality scholarship on any facet of American philosophy. What other philosophy journal has ever had such an amazingly broad capacity matched to such a narrow-sounding title? Of course, the subtitle conveys its true mission; and for decades that mission has been executed admirably by the Transactions and its primary editor, Peter Hare. Not only were the journal pages consistently open to the breadth of American philosophy, but Hare’s tireless and enthusiastic support of younger scholars and international professors has enriched the study of the history of American thought beyond calculation. A finer ambassador of American philosophy to the wider philosophical world could hardly be imagined. And the world has responded to such generosity. The numerous international communities of scholars active today, eagerly applying ideas born in America to global problems, testify to the power of so simply a thing as communication.

            The following award citation composed by Edward Madden, Peter Hare’s close friend and colleague at SUNY Buffalo, best conveys the scope and lasting impact of Hare’s devotion to American philosophy. The occasion was the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, at the University of Toronto in March 1996. Peter Hare received the Herbert W. Schneider Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Society, “for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American Philosophy.”

 

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 1996 Herbert W. Schneider Award Citation:

Peter H. Hare

             It seems appropriate at this time to honor and thank Peter H. Hare for all that he has done for the advancement of American Philosophy – in his fine publications, and papers read at conferences and colloquia, as president of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and in his many editorial labors, most notably as longtime co-editor of the Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy which he, with the never failing help of Richard Robin, took over as an in-house publication and built into one of the major philosophical journals of our time. Through all of these activities he certainly has earned the Herbert Schneider Award of 1996.

            Professor Hare’s publications in American philosophy span a wide range of topics, including numerous clarifying articles on James’s will-to-believe doctrine and a splendid Introduction to the Harvard Edition of James’s Some Problems of Philosophy. His scholarship has range as well as depth. He has also written substantial articles (or sections of books) on Whitehead, Royce, Tillich, Hartshorne, Ducasse, Mead, Sheldon, Buchler, Dewey and Dickinson Miller. And he has written numerous valuable articles for recent and current Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Companions of Philosophy, pieces generally dealing with figures in American philosophy. Peter has written a good deal on American naturalism and several entries for the Encyclopedia of Unbelief; but is it clear that he has not entirely escaped his Puritan heritage: for him, laziness is the Unpardonable Sin.

            Peter’s editorial work has been far-reaching in its influence. In addition to the Transactions he is the editor of a series of books entitled Frontiers of Philosophy, one of which includes a symposium on William James. And he has edited individual books as well and was a long-term member of the Editorial Board of the American Philosophical Quarterly. His editorial significance lies in the fact that he has made every effort to see that all aspects of American Philosophy are given a hearing. I can think of no dimension of American Philosophy that has not been included some time or other in the Transactions, many written as a result of his encouraging authors to write on diverse subjects. His openness, his desire to have all sides heard, is more than an ideological commitment to pluralism but also reflects his heart-felt commitment to all democratic principles.

            We all know, of course, that Peter is past president of our Society. That honor came as the result of many years of labor on every conceivable committee of the Society and his participation in organizing annual and sectional meetings, including the excellent international meeting in Buffalo, where the interest of foreign scholars in American philosophy was cheeringly evident. From the day he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University he has worked tirelessly and effectively for the recognition of American philosophy.

            In still another way Peter has promoted American Philosophy from his home base at SUNY at Buffalo. In the near future he will have chaired more Ph.D. committees than any other person in the history of the department, the majority of students writing their dissertations in American philosophy and who, in turn, carry on this interest in their own teaching careers. But even more impressive is the fact that he has been a member of 56 dissertation committees at Buffalo. He has sunk many baskets himself but, to his credit, he also has had an overwhelming number of assists. Peter has always been helpful to young philosophers beyond measure, whether they be friends or bare acquaintances, whether they be Buffalo students or young people he met at a convention. Helping others is not a prominent feature of our world and deserves to be honored when it assumes a large role in a scholar’s life.

            With his advancement of American philosophy in numerous and diverse ways no one can deny that Peter Hare richly deserves the high honor bestowed on him today by this Society, the Herbert W. Schneider Award. This award, which recognizes one’s contributions and dedication to American philosophy, also has a significant moral overtone. Like most areas of life nowadays, academia is not known for its benevolence, so it is reviving and refreshing to be present when a most kindly and benevolent Peter Hare is honored – by an official award, yes, and one accompanied by overwhelming affection from the members of this Society. 

Edward H. Madden

Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo

 

PETER H. HARE

 

Education

Academic Positions

 

Honors and Awards

Editorial Positions and Positions in Professional Societies

Committees

Memberships in Professional Societies

Published Biographical Information

Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Religion

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored

  1. G. H. Mead's Metaphysics of Sociality. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1965. Advisors Justus Buchler, Arthur Danto, John H. Randall, Jr., David Sidorsky. iii + 181 pp.
  2. Evil and the Concept of God. With Edward H. Madden. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. vii + 142 pp. Pp. 83-90 reprinted in Exploring the Philosophy of Religion, ed. David Stewart (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1980), and in Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, ed. Louis P. Pojman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1987).
  3. Causing, Perceiving and Believing: An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse. With Edward H. Madden. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1975. 211 pp.
  4. A Woman's Quest for Science: Portrait of Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985. 192 pp.

Books and Journal Issues Edited

  1. Co-editor, Religion, History and Spiritual Democracy: Essays in Honor of Joseph L. Blau. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. lxxiv + 375 pp.
  2. Co-editor with Newton Garver, Naturalism and Rationality. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1986. 289 pp.
  3. Editor, Doing Philosophy Historically. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1988. 352 pp.
  4. Editor, Can Epistemology Be Unified? Monist 81 (July 1998): 351-508.

Articles

  1. "Behaviorism and Total Life Orientation." Pacific Philosophical Forum 3 (1964): 84-86.
  2. "Hartshorne's Social Feelings and G. H. Mead." Southern Journal of Philosophy 4 (1966): 69-70.
  3. "Evil and Unlimited Power." With Edward H. Madden. Review of Metaphysics 20 (1966): 278-289.
  4. "In Defense of Impersonal Egoism." Philosophical Studies 17 (1966): 94-95.
  5. "W. H. Sheldon's Philosophy of Polarity." The Personalist, 48 (1967): 200-216.
  6. "Religion and Analytic Naturalism." Pacific Philosophical Forum 5 (1967): 52-61.
  7. "Is There An Existentialist Theory of Truth?." Journal of Existentialism 7 (1967): 417-424.
  8. "On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil." With Edward H. Madden. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (1967): 58-69.
  9. "Moore and Ducasse on the Sense-Data Issue." With R. Koehl. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (March 1968): 313-331.
  10. "Should We Concede Anything to the Retributivists?" In Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment, eds. Edward H. Madden, Marvin Farber and Rollo Handy (Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1968), pp. 82-85.
  11. "William James, Dickinson Miller and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief." With Edward H. Madden. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 4 (1968): 115-129.
  12. "On Defining Existentialism." Buffalo Studies 4 (1968): 3-17.
  13. "Sartre on Freedom and Authenticity: A Short Critique." Buffalo Studies 4 (1968): 133-142.
  14. "Purposes and Methods of Writing the History of Recent American Philosophy." Southern Journal of Philosophy 6 (1968-69): 269-278.
  15. "Why Hare Must Hound the Gods." With Edward H. Madden. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1969): 456-459.
  16. "Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics." Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1969): 267-271.
  17. "Reflections on Civil Disobedience." With Edward H. Madden. Journal of Value Inquiry 4 (1970): 81-95.
  18. "A Tribute to C. J. Ducasse." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 64 (1970): 143-146.
  19. "The Case for the Pragmatic View of the Past." Discourse 3 (1970): 16-19.
  20. "The Powers That Be." With Edward H. Madden. Dialogue 10 (1971): 12-31.
  21. "Feeling Imaging and Expression Theory." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 30 (1972): 343-350.
  22. "Rowland G. Hazard (1801-1888) on Freedom in Willing." Journal of the History of Ideas 33 (1972): 155-164.
  23. "An Examination of C. J. Ducasse's Philosophy of Religion." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7 (1971): 58-69.
  24. "C. J. Ducasse on Human Agency." With Edward H. Madden. Personalist 12 (1971): 618-621.
  25. "Evil and Inconclusiveness." With Edward H. Madden. Sophia 11 (1972): 8-12.
  26. "Evil and Persuasive Power." With Edward H. Madden. Process Studies 2 (1972): 44-48. Reprinted in The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings, ed. Michael L. Peterson (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), pp. 267-272.
  27. "C. J. Ducasse's Universal, Progressive Hedonism." With Edward H. Madden. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 34 (1973): 36-50.
  28. "Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Interactionism." With John Lincourt. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 9 (1973): 333-338.
  29. "The Right and Duty to Will to Believe." With Peter Kauber. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1974): 327-343.
  30. "Introduction" to "Perspectives on the History of Pragmatism: A Symposium on H. S. Thayer's Meaning and Action." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 11 (1975): 229-230.
  31. "A Critical Appraisal of James' View of Causality." With Edward H. Madden. In The Philosophy of William James, ed. W. R. Corti (Winterthus, Switzerland: Archiv fur Genetssche Philosophie, 1976).
  32. "Civil Disobedience in Health Services." With Edward H. Madden. Article in Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New York: The Free Press, 1978), vol. 1, pp. 159-62.
  33. "Review Essay on Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy." With Edward H. Madden. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 14 (1978): 53-71.
  34. "Introduction." To The Works of William James: Some Problems of Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979).
  35. "Introduction, American Philosophical Reflections." In Religion, History and Spiritual Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), pp. 153-154.
  36. "The Development of James's Epistemological Realism." With C. Chakrabarti. In Religion, History and Spiritual Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), pp. 231-245.
  37. "Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology." With John Ryder. Process Studies 10 (1980): 120-128. Reprinted in Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics, eds. Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace, and Robert Corrington (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 335-345.
  38. "What Pepperian Response to Rorty is Possible?" Journal of Mind and Behavior 3 (1982): 217-220.
  39. "Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879)." Article in Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Gordon Stein (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1985), vol. 1, pp. 112-114.
  40. "Evil, Problem of." Article in Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Gordon Stein (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1985), vol. 1, pp. 294-297.
  41. "Godwin, William (1756-1836)." Article in Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Gordon Stein (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1985), vol. 1, pp. ??.
  42. "Toward an Ethics of Belief." Congrés mondial de philosophie (1988), pp. 428-432.
  43. "The Abuse of Holocaust Studies: Mercy Killing and the Slippery Slope." In Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time, eds. Alan Rosenberg and Gerald E. Myers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), pp. 412-420.
  44. "Alfred North Whitehead." Article in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, eds. Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991), vol. 2, pp. 932-934.
  45. "Learned Discussion." American Heritage (February-March 1992): pp. 36-37.
  46. "John Dewey." In A Companion to Epistemology, eds. J. Dancy and E. Sosa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), pp. 97-98.
  47. "William James." In A Companion to Epistemology, eds. J. Dancy and E. Sosa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), pp. 227-228.
  48. "Euthanasia: Arguments For and Against." (in Russian) Yasnopolyanskii Herald (1993), p. 5.
  49. 16 articles in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). "Belief, ethics of," p. 83. "Blanshard, Brand (1892-1987)," p. 96. "Brightman, Edgar Sheffield (1884-1953)," p. 105. "Buchler, Justus (1914-1991)," pp. 106-107. "Ducasse, Curt John (1881-1969)," p. 207. "Hartshorne, Charles (1897- )," p. 335. "Hocking, William Ernest (1873-1966)," pp. 370-371. "Hodgson, Shadworth Holloway (1832-1912)," p. 371. "Hook, Sidney (1902-1989)," pp. 373-374. "Lovejoy, Arthur 0. (1873-1962)," p. 513. "Mead, George Herbert (1863-1931)," p. 540. "Renouvier, Charles Bernard (1815-1903)," p. 769. "Sellars, Roy Wood (1880-1973)," p. 819. "Virtues, doxastic," p. 901. "Voluntarism, doxastic," pp. 902-903. " Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)," pp. 909-910.
  50. "The American Naturalist Tradition." Free Inquiry 16.1 (Winter 1995): 38-39.
  51. "Classical Pragmatism, Recent Naturalistic Theories of Representations and Pragmatic Realism." In The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, ed. P. Weingartner, G. Schurz, and G. Dorn (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1998), pp. 58-65.
  52. "Introduction, American Philosophy and the Hispanic World", Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34.1 (Winter 1998): 29-30.
  53. "Marvin Farber." Article in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garrety and Mark C. Carnes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 7, pp. 707-710.
  54. "William T. Parry." Article in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garrety and Mark C. Carnes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 17, pp. 78-79.
  55. "Richard S. Robin: Present at the Creation." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38.1 (Winter 2002): 1-6.
  56. "Patrick Romanell, 1912-2002." With Timothy Madigan. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 75 (May 2002): 201-202.
  57. “Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief,” in Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, ed. John R. Shook (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003), pp. 239-261.
  58. “Dewey, Analytic Epistemology and Biology,” in Dewey, Pragmatism, and Economic Methodology, ed. Elias L. Khalil (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 144-152.
  59. “What Kind of God Does This...” in The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am, ed. Richard Greene and Peter Vernezze (Chicago: Open Court, 2004), pp. 195-206.
  60. "In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40.3 (Summer 2004): 393-415.
  61. “Photography, Popular Epistemology, Flexible Realism and Holistic Pragmatism,” in Philosophy and Popular Culture, ed. William Irwin and Jorge Gracia (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 275-294.
  62. “Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss.” Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics no. 5 (2006).

Book Reviews

Some 20 reviews for the Bibliography of Philosophy.

  1. "A Theodicy for Today?" Review of Hick, Evil and God of Love. With Edward H. Madden. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 4 (Winter 1966): 287-292.
  2. "Review of C. J. Ducasse, Truth, Knowledge and Causation." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 31.2 (June 1970): ??
  3. "Review of Tursman, ed., Philosophy and the History of Science." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 32 (1971): 284-285.
  4. "Review of Douglas Greenlee, Peirce's Concept of Sign." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (1974): 281-282.
  5. "Review of Dickinson Miller, Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 36 (1976): 433-444.
  6. "Review of David Griffin, Power and Evil: A Process Theodicy." Process Studies 7 (1977): 44-51.
  7. "Review of M. P. Jones et al., eds., The Individual and Society." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (1979): 293-295.
  8. "Review of George Schlesinger, Religion and Science." Metaphilosophy 11 (1980): 292-295.
  9. "Review of Michael Weinstein, The Wilderness and the City: American Classical Philosophy as a Moral Quest." Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1985): 601-602.
  10. "Review of Gerald E. Myers, William James: His Life and Thought." Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, 13 (1987): 114-115.
  11. "Review of Gerald E. Myers, William James: His Life and Thought." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 23 (1987): 309-317.
  12. "Review of Stephen L. Payne and Bruce H. Charnov, eds., Ethical Dilemmas for Academic Professionals." Ethics 98 (1988): 890.
  13. "Review of Bernard McGrane, Beyond Anthropology: Society and the Other." Journal of American History ?? (September 1990): 635-636.
  14. "Review of Desley Deacon, Elsie Clew Parsons: Inventing Modern Life." American Anthropologist 100 (1998): 567-568.
  15. "Review of Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are The Compatible?" Philo 8.2 (Fall-Winter 2005): 183-185.

Papers Presented

  1. "Should We Make Any Concessions to the Retributivists?" SUNY Buffalo Symposium on Punishment, 1966.
  2. "Evil and Character Building: A Criticism of John Hick's Theodicy." Creighton Club, Hamilton College, 1966.
  3. "Feeling Images and the Expression Theory." Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, December 1969.
  4. "Comments on D. Meiklejohn's 'Civil Disobedience, Law and Morality'." Creighton Club, Oneonta, October 31, 1970.
  5. "Peirce and Mead on Perceptual Immediacy and Human Action." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 1974.
  6. "Do We Have a Duty to Have Optimistic Beliefs?" State University College at Fredonia, May 1977.
  7. "James' Ethics of Belief: A Response to Suckiel." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 1978.
  8. "Active and Passive Euthanasia: A Moral Difference?" Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, March 23, 1978.
  9. "Buchler, Ordinal Metaphysics and God." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Texas A&M University, February 29, 1980.
  10. "Doxastic Voluntarism: A Response to Nathanson." American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD, December 29, 1982.
  11. "Toward an Ethics of Belief." World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, August 1983.
  12. "Comments on Temporality, Perceptual Experience, and Peirce's 'Proofs' of Realism." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Seattle, WA, March 2, 1984.
  13. "Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief." Presidential Address, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Buffalo, NY, March 3, 1990.
  14. "Haack's Double-Aspect Foundherentism." American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division, New York City, December 28, 1991.
  15. "Mercy Killing and the Slippery Slope." Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, January 10, 1992.
  16. "Contemporary American Naturalism and Pragmatism." Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, February 19, 1996.
  17. "Contemporary American Pragmatism." Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, May 20, 1996.
  18. "Naturalizing Philosophy: Recent Successes and Failures." Lecture given at Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, May 21, 1996; KAIST, Taejon, Korean, May 23, 1996; National Tsing Hua University, Teipei, Taiwan, June 3, 1996; National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, June 4, 1996.
  19. "Richard Rorty and American Philosophy Today." University of the Philippines, Manila, the Philippines, June 6, 1996.

Dissertations Directed (Year of Defense)

  1. Webb Dordick, "An Examination of Whitehead's Doctrine of Causal Efficacy." 1972
  2. Peter Kauber, "William James' Ethics of Belief." 1972
  3. John M. Lincourt, "Precursors in American Philosophy of George Herbert Mead's Theory of Emergent Selfhood." 1972
  4. Marilyn Meyerson, "Patriarchy and Biological Necessity: A Feminist and Anarchist Critique." 1977
  5. William Yoder, "The Possibility of an Ontology and Epistemology of Mysticism." 1978
  6. Stephen M. Knaster, "The Free and Voluntary Nature of Believing." 1983
  7. Steven M. Kahn, "Toward An Epistemology of Consent." 1984
  8. Thomas J. Donahue, "Problems of the Self in Roderick Chisholm's Philosophy." 1985
  9. Lesley Friedman, "C. S. Peirce's Final Realism: An Analysis of the Post-1875 Writings on Universals." 1993
  10. Chi-Chun Chiu, "Peirce's Early Concept of Reality: A Study in His Early Metaphysics." 1994
  11. John R. Shook, "John Dewey's Early Philosophy: The Foundations of Instrumentalism." 1994
  12. William G. Snow, "Epistemic Normativity and the Intrinsic Value of Knowledge." 1995
  13. Timothy J. Madigan, "Ethics and Evidentialism: W. K. Clifford and 'The Ethics of Belief'." 1999
  14. Jason N. Adsit, "Apologies." 2002
  15. Mark A. Bross, "Externalism and Understanding: Toward a Unified Account of Epistemic Justification." 2003
  16. Jeffrey F. Dueck, "Ways of Life: Their Nature and Justification." 2006

M.A. Theses Directed (Year of Defense)

  1. Peter G. Kauber, "Morton White's Conception of the A Priori." 1968
  2. Nancy Martens, "God, Freedom and Evil in Process Philosophy." 1971
  3. Donald Sweet, "R. G. Collingwood's Theory of Metaphysics." 1970
  4. Margery Lerman, "William James on Cognitive Meaning." 1993

Dissertation Committee Memberships (Year of Defense)

  1. Robert Meyers, 1966
  2. Edward D'Angelo, 1966
  3. B. Murchland, 1968
  4. Shelia S. Rhodes, 1969
  5. William O. Kerr, 1969
  6. James Humber, 1970
  7. Louis Ricci, 1970
  8. Gregory Ross, 1970
  9. J. Stanley Yake, 1970
  10. George William , 1970
  11. Alison M. Jaggar, 1970
  12. Bhagwan B. Singh, 1970
  13. John Carafides, 1971
  14. Barry Cohen, 1971
  15. W. Rosensohn, 1971
  16. James Hamilton, 1972
  17. Ronald Brady, 1972
  18. Eugene Valberg, 1973
  19. George Benedict, 1973
  20. J. R. McNabb, Jr, 1973
  21. A. S. Rosenbaum, 1974
  22. R. R. McGuire, 1974
  23. Philip K. Iobst, 1975
  24. C. Chakrabarti, 1975
  25. Donald G. Sweet, 1976
  26. Michael Peterson, 1976
  27. Alan Soble, 1976
  28. G. R. Garrison, 1976
  29. G. J. Giacaman, 1976
  30. R. T. Giuffrida, Jr., 1976
  31. Lee S. Dryden, 1977
  32. W. H. Kehler, Jr., 1978
  33. James A. Nelson, 1980
  34. Lissa Light, 1980
  35. Majorie Clay, 1981
  36. Laurence Finsen, 1982
  37. Robert Hallborg, 1984
  38. James B. Griffis, 1985
  39. Douglas Davis, 1986
  40. Helena Openshaw, 1986
  41. Terry DiFilippo, 1987
  42. Woosuk Park, 1988
  43. John Kronen, 1990
  44. Zosimo Lee, 1990
  45. Margaret Holland, 1991
  46. Seung-Chong Lee, 1991
  47. Ranjoo Herr, 1992
  48. Hyurun Park, 1992
  49. Arleen Salles, 1992
  50. Joel Tierno, 1992
  51. Teresa McGarrity, 1993
  52. Michael Gorman, 1993
  53. B. Richard Beatch, 1994
  54. Terence O'Connell, 1994
  55. Jane Miller Bristol, 1994
  56. Gary R. Johnson, 1994