Faculty CV 2007

DENNIS J. SCHMIDT

Department of Philosophy
240 Sparks Bldg, Penn State
University Park, PA 16802
email: djs61@psu.edu   

     
EDUCATION

1980     Ph.D.   Boston College
1974     B.A.    Bucknell University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

            2007                Visiting Professor of Humanities, Università Roma, La Sapienza, Italy       
2006                Visiting Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Universität Freiburg, Germany
                                    2005-               Co-Director, Institute for Arts and Humanities at Penn State University
2005-                           Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at Penn State University
2003-2005       Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Penn State University
2004-2007       Advisory Board, Rock Ethics Institute

1994-2002       Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
1992-1994       Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
1993                Visiting Chair of Christian Philosophy, Villanova University (Fall semester)
1992                Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University (mini-course)
1990-1994       Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Binghamton University
1987-1992       Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University    
1988-1989       Co-Director, Philosophy, Literature, Culture Graduate Program in Comparative Literature
1983-1987       Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton                                                       
1982-1983       Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton                                         
1976-1981       Teaching Fellow, Boston College

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

University Press: New York), forthcoming. 

2005    Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History, (SUNY Press: Albany), 2005, xi + 238 pp.

2001    On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life, (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN, 2001), xviii + 327 pp.
            German translation in preparation: Deutschen und andere Griechen: Über Tragödie und
Sittlichkeit, Mohr Verlag, forthcoming, 2008.

2000    Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, edited and introduced
with G. Figal, (Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen), 2000, 375 pp.

1988    The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger and the Entitlements of Philosophy,
(MIT Press: Cambridge, MA), 1988, xix + 241 pp.

SPECIAL YEARBOOK ISSUES EDITED:

1990                Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion, (SUNY/CRIT, 1990), 173 pp.

SERIES EDITOR:

"Contemporary Continental Philosophy" (SUNY Press)
  
Over 122 volumes have already been published or are forthcoming in my series.  The series list includes works by Heidegger, Schelling, Gadamer, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, as well as some of the more significant English language works in Continental philosophy.  The series seeks to represent both younger and more established figures, and to publish works that represent a wide range of views and themes.

“Penn State Series in the Arts and Humanities” (Penn State University Press), Co-editor

This is a new series.  The first volumes are now being prepared.
           
ARTICLES AUTHORED:

“Dialectic,” in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed. Lachs and Talisse, Routledge, London, 2 pp. ms
“Über das Tragische: Ein Versuch zu Schelling,” in Schelling und Heidegger, Schellingiana, Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007, 20 pp. ms. 
AWozu Hermeneutik: Über Dichtung und Politik,@ in Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Stuttgart,
Band 6, 2007, pp. 1-16.

“What we owe the dead,” in Heidegger and the Greeks, ed. Hyland and Manoussakis, Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 11-126.
“Anything but a series of footnotes,” in Epoche, Vol. 11, Nr. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 275-286.
“Conversation, Solidarity, and Danger,” in Toward Greater Human Solidarity, ed. Anindita Baslev, Dasgupta & Co., Kolkata, India, 2006, pp. 43-60.
“O poezjik, filozofiji in politihem: Čemu hermeneutikia?” in Phainoma, XV, 55-56, 2006, pp. 193-207. 
“The Relevance of Tragedy,” in Journal Nova Revija.  Slovak translation being prepared.

             pp. 327-343.
“Kant und die Subjektivierung der Aesthetik,” in Klassiker Auslegen, ed. Höffe, Akademie    Verlag, pp. 29-42.

AWhat we owe the living,@ in Between Description and Interpretation, ed. Wierciński. Toronto Press, pp. 401-409.
AOn the Incalculable,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol 34, 2004, pp. 31-45.
AÜber Sprache und Freiheit aus Hermeneutischer Sichtpunkt,@ in Heidegger Jahrbuch, Frankfurt: Klostermann Verlag, pp. 59-73.

2003    AOn Tragedy and Ethical Life,@ in Phenomenology Today: The Schuwer SPEP Lectures 1998-2002, Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 2003, pp. 38-53.
AOn Counting, Stars, and Music,@ in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, III, 2003, pp. 179-191.
AWhat we cannot say,@ in Moderns and Continentals, ed. S. Daniel, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 240-254.
AHans-Georg Gadamer: In Memorium, in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 33, 2003, pp 1-3.
ASartre without the nausea,@ in Postmodernism and Ethics, forthcoming (16 pages).

2002    AThe Baby and the Bathwater: On Heidegger and Politics,@ in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, ed. Raffoul and Pettigrew, SUNY Press, Albany, pp. 159-172.
AWhat difference does a shade make?@ in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 35, No. 1,
pp. 77-86.
AWhy is spirit such a slow learner?@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 32, 2002, pp. 26-43.

2001    ANeither Better Off Nor Better,@ Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 15. No.3, pp. 190-194.
AH Erimeneutike kai h poietike kinese,@ in O Logos tes Metaphrases, Ellenika Grammata, Athens, 2001, pp. 100-109.

2000    ASokrates mit Gehstock,@ in Begegnungen mit Hans-Georg Gadamer, Reclam Verlag, Leibzig,
pp. 137-146. 
Italian translation: ASocrate con il bastone,@ in Incontri con Hans-Georg Gadamer,
Tascabili Bompiani, pp. 108-115.
English translation: ASocrates with a Cane,@ in South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp.223-227.
AWas wir nicht sagen können: Reflexionen zur Sprache und Freiheit,@ in Hermeneutische Wege, Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 161-175.
AStrategies for a Possible Reading: On Heidegger=s AContributions,@ in Companion to Heidegger=s Contributions to Philosophy, ed. Scott, et. al., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 32-47.
AOn the Significance of Nature for the Question of Ethics,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXI, pp. 62-77.

1999    AStereoscopic Thinking: Aristotle on Metaphor and the Law of Resemblance,@ in American Continental Philosophy, ed. Brogan and Risser, Indiana University Press, pp. 66-94.
AOn the Dark Side of the Moon: Voice and the Event of the Word,@ in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 33. No. 3, pp. 289-299.
"Ruins and Roses: Hegel and Heidegger on Mourning, Sacrifice and History," in Endings: The Question of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, eds. McCumber & Comay, Northwestern University, Press, pp. 97-113, and pp. 227-229.
AWhat we didn't see: Blindness and Justice in the Ancient World," in The Presocratics After Heidegger, ed. Jacobs, SUNY Press, pp. 153-170.

1998    ABlank pages, Storms and Other Images of History,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXIX, pp. 13-30.
AHeidegger and the Greeks / History, Catastrophe and Community," in Heidegger Toward the                             Turn: Essays on Texts of the 1930's, ed. Risser, SUNY Press, pp. 75-92.

1997    "Gadamer," in Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed Critchley, Blackwell Publishers, pp. 433-444.
"Soalve et Coagula: Something other than an exercise in dialectic," in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXVI,  pp.259-271.
"What we owe the dead," in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXVII, pp. 190-8.

1996    "Beauty," Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Macmillian Publishing Co.
"The Ordeal of the Foreign," Philosophy Today, Vol. 40, No. 1/4,  pp. 188-196.
"Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Kant and the Question of Judgment" in Proceedings of the Kant-Kongress, ed. Robinson, Marquette University Press, pp. 1-8.

1995    "What we didn't see," in The Silverman Lectures, Duquesne University Press,  pp. 39-53.
"Putting Oneself in Words...," in Library of Living Philosophers, ed. L. Hahn, Open
Court Press, pp. 483-495.
"Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Gadamer and Kant on Art and Ethical Life," in Internationale                                 Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol. I, pp. 147-158.

1994    "Can Law Survive?" in Toledo Law Review, Vol. 26., No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 147-158.
"Among the Ways: Heidegger after Gadamer," Introduction to Gadamer's Heidegger's Ways, SUNY Press, pp. xv-xxiii.
AWhy I am so happy,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXIV, pp. 3-14.

1993    "Toward Another Time," in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, pp. 56-64.
"On the Memory of Last Things," in Research in Phenomenology, pp. 92-104.
"Fission and Fusion:  Gadamer, Hegel and Heidegger on History and Language," in Skepteon, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 1-13.
"Acoustics: Nietzsche on Words and Music," in Dialectic and Narrative, eds. Flynn and Judowitz, SUNY Press, pp. 83-99, 319-323.
"Black Milk and Blue/Bodies:  Heidegger and Celan on the Politics of Language," in Word                                   Traces, ed Fiorettos, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 81-103, 251-253.

1992    "Between the Meridian and Other Lines," in Proceedings of the Celan Conference, ed.
Block, pp. 30-38.

1991    "Changing the Subject: Heidegger, `the' National and `the' Epochal," in Graduate Faculty Journal of the New School, Vol. 14, No. 2 – Vol. 15,No. 1, pp. 441-464.

1990    "Economies of Production," in Crises in Continental Philosophy, eds. by Dallery and
 Scott, SUNY Press, pp. 145-57 + pp. 265-8.
"Poetry and the Political," in Festivals of Interpretation, ed. by Wright, SUNY Press, pp. 209-228.

1989    "Strangers in the Dark: On the limits of praxis in Heidegger," in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 43-51.
"Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion," in Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion: Translation                                  Perspectives, V, pp. 1-10.
"In Heidegger's Wake: Belonging to the Discourse of the Turn," in Heidegger Studies  Vol. V, pp. 145-158.
Review of Die Heidegger Kontroverse (ed. J. Altwegg), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 90-93.

1988    "Circles – Hermeneutic and Otherwise," in Writing the Future, ed. by Wood, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 67-77.
"The Hermeneutic Dimension of Translation," in Translation Perspectives IV, ed. Rose, SUNY/CRIT, pp. 5-17.
Review of Die Religionsphilosophie Hegels (by W. Jaenske), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 93-4.
Review of Reason in the Age of Science (by H.‑G. Gadamer), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol 19, No. 1, pp. 80-81.                                
Review of Kant's Critical Philosophy (by G. Deleuze), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol 19, No. 1, pp. 81-83.
Review of Between Kant and Hegel (by Giovanni and Harris), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 19, No.1, pp. 83-84.

            Review of Der Spielraum des Verhaltens (by B. Waldenfels), Journal of the British Society for                              Phenomenology, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 98‑100.
Review of Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel (by N. Thulstrup), International Studies in                                            Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 100-101

1986    "Heine, History, and Revolution," Foreword to the English edition of Heinrich Heine,  Religion and Philosophy in Germany, SUNY Press, pp. vii‑xxii.
"In the Spirit of Bloch," Introduction Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity pp. vii‑xxv,
Press, pp vii-xxv.
Review of Adorno und Heidegger (by H. Mörchen), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 18, No. 1,         pp. 106‑108.

1984    "Some Reflections on Translating Philosophy," in Translation Papers II, pp. 28‑34.

1982                "Between Hegel and Heidegger," Man and World 15, pp. 57‑71.
"On the Obscurity of the Origin," Philosophy Today Vol. 26, Winter, pp. 322‑331.

ARTICLES TRANSLATED:

1995    "Replies," by H.-G. Gadamer in Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court Press,
(co-translated with M. Lütkehermölle), 78 pp.

1993    "To Diotima," "On tawny leaves...," "In the middle of life," and "Ripe are the
 fruits," by Friedrich Hölderlin in Graham House Review, translated with L. Rosenberg,
No. 17, Fall 1993, pp. 108-111.

1990    "In Praise of Theory," by H.-G. Gadamer in Ellipsis Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 85-100.                   
(co-translated with J. Steinwand).

1989    "Culture and the Word," by H.-G. Gadamer in Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion SUNY/CRIT, pp. 11-23.

1988    "Reply to Nicholas White," by H.G. Gadamer in Platonic Writings/Platonic
Readings, Routledge, pp. 258-266 (co-translated with R. Norton).

1986    "Text and Interpretation," by H.‑G. Gadamer in Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy, SUNY Press, pp. 377‑396.  Expanded version reprinted in Dialogue and Deconstruction, SUNY Press, pp. 21-51 (co-translated with R. Palmer).
                       
1984    "Morality and Religion in Kant," by H. Wagner in Contemporary German Philosophy,  Vol. 3, pp. 75‑88.
"On Plato's Unwritten Doctrine," by T. Gerstmeyer in Contemporary German Philosophy, Vol. 4, pp. 312‑319.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFERENCE AND INVITED PAPERS:

DePaul University, “On the Possibility of an Original Ethics”
Dallas Texas, “On the Unbidden: Heidegger and the Greek Sense of Nature”
2006    New Delhi, India, “On the Possibility of Solidarity”
            New School for Social Research, New York City, “Reimagining the Tragic”
            APA Eastern Division, (Invited address): “On Birth, Death, and Ethical Life”
            Heidegger Circle, Boston University, “Aristotle and physis”
            NAHS, Boston, Keynote Address, “The Task of Interpretation”
            Studium Generale, Universität Freiburg, “Über das Tragische: Ein Versuch zu Schelling”
            Universität Freiburg, “Über das Fremde”
            Penn State, “Aristotle and the Ethics of Ontology”
                                                Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, “Can Ethics be Original?”
            Ancient Philosophy Society, DePaul University, Chicago, “Aristotle and the Ethics of Ontology”
2005    SPEP, Salt Lake City, Utah, “On Plato’s Many Legacies”
            Duquesne University, “On the Possibility of an Original Ethics”
                                                Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, “On the Problem Posed by Memory and
            Responsibility”
            Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, “On Founding”
            University of Oregon, “Inventing Socrates”
            IAH Luncheon Series, “Back From Syracuse”
            Universität Freiburg, “Geschichte und Ethos”
2004    Comparative Literature, Penn State, Luncheon Series, “The Relevance of Tragedy”
            American University, AHow to Remember@
            Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy:
                        “On the Claims of Taste”
                        “From the Aesthetic to the Teleological”
                        “Judgment and Freedom”
            SPEP, Memphis, Tennessee, “Riveted to a Monstrous Site”
2003    Vassar College, AWhat we owe the dead@
Heidegger Gesellschaft, Messkirch, Germany, AÜber Sprache und Freiheit@
Penn State University, ASartre without the Nausea@
Universität Freiburg, Germany, AWhat we owe the living@
University of Athens, Athens, Greece, AWhat we owe the dead@
Haverford University, Distinguished Lectureship, AWhat we owe the dead@
Penn State University, Inaugural Lecture, AWhat we owe the dead@
APA, Eastern Division, Invited Address, AOn Reading Kant Otherwise@
2002    Chicago, SPEP, Response to Sallis and Hyland comments on my book SPEP Book session
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, AOn Counting, Stars, Music@
University of Oregon, AOn Tragedy and Ethical Life@
Memphis University, Keynote Address, AOn the Unbidden@
Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, ASartre without the nausea@
University of Buffalo, Comparative Literature, ASpeaking of Nature@
2001    Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, AHeidegger and Politics@
University of North Texas, Invited Paper, ALike a fire that consumes all before it...@
2000    APA, Eastern Division, Invited Paper, AOn the Withdrawal of the Beautiful@
SPEP, Schwuer Memorial Lecture, Penn State University, AOn Tragedy and Ethical Life@
Texas A&M, Keynote Address, AReading Kant Today@
Citta di Castello, Italy, Collegium Phaenomenologicum:
AContributions to a Possible Politics@
ATechnicity and Community in the Historical Present@
AImpossible and Possible Communities@
Universität Tübingen, AWozu Hermeneutik?@
New School for Social Research, AOn the Significance of Nature for the Question of Ethics@
Penn State University, AOn the Significance of Nature for the Question of Ethics@
University of Pennsylvania, AA Matter of Limits: On Words and Images
Universität Heidelberg, AWozu Hermeneutik?@
1999    Seattle University, AHow (not) to speak like a philosopher@
University of Richmond, ARepresentations of Death: On the limits of the word@
Citta di Castello, Italy, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, ASpeaking of Nature@
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, AWas wir nicht sagen können@
SPEP, Eugene Oregon, AOn the Principle of Light@
Penn State University, AShades: Three questions to Sallis@
1998    New School for Social Research, AHomer, Twombly and Nietzsche on Images of Death@
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Heidegger Circle, AFrom Athens to Philadelphia@
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, AOn the Dark Side of the Moon@
1997    APA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Unimaginable Time"
New School for Social Research, "Solve et Coagula"
Perugia, Italy, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Like a fire that consumes all before it…“
Villanova University, "On Angels in America"
1996    Southern Connecticut University, "Does Art Matter?"
Universität Tübingen, Germany, AGeschichtlichkeit und Gerechtigkeit@
Cannisius College, "On the Philosophical Status of Literature"
Perugia, Italy, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Canto d'amore: On Germans and Other Greeks"
SUNY-Buffalo, "Kant and the Question of Nature"
1995    Vanderbilt University, "Is there beauty?: Some remarks on Adorno, Schelling and Heidegger"
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, "On Justice and Blindness"
SPEP, Chicago, Illinois, "Of Mortality, Measure and Morality"
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "Hermeneutics of Factical Life"
Penn State University, "What We Didn't See"
Duquesne University, Simon Silverman Lectures, "What We Didn't See"
International Kant Congress, Memphis, "Lyrical and Ethical Subjects"
Villanova University, Inaugural Lecture, "What We Didn't See"
1994    Duquesne University, "Why I am so Happy"
Memphis State University, "On the Lyrical and the Ethical"
PIC Conference, "Why I am so Happy"
Vanderbilt University, "Lyrical and Ethical Subjects"
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "The Ordeal of the Foreign and the Enigma of One's Own"
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy:
"Heidegger on Time and Justice"
"Making Time Go By Unnoticed"
"Anaximander, Injustice and Destiny"
Georgetown University, "Lyrical and Ethical Subjects"
1993    Villanova University, "Lyrical and Ethical Subjects"
SPEP, New Orleans, Louisiana, "On the Wounds of Spirit: Between Kant and Hegel"
Spindel Conference, Memphis, Tennessee "The Question of Origin"
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "Nature and Judgment"
1992    SPEP, Boston, Massachusetts, "Heidegger and Kant on Sacrifice and Community"
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, "The Calculus of History and the Final Work
of Community"
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "Putting oneself in words..."
Heidegger Circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, "Why I am so Happy"
Villanova University, "Most Monstrous Contradiction"
1991    Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, "Most Monstrous Contradiction:  Hegel on
Law and Love"
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "Odysseus' Choice:  Reconciliation in Plato”
Heidegger Circle, Vanderbilt University, "On The Destiny of Last Things"
University of Notre Dame, "Most Monstrous Contradiction: Hegel's Antigone"
Midwest Political Science Assoc., Chicago, Illinois, "Political Philosophy Today and the  
Idea of Humanism"
1990    Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, Workshop on Hannah Arendt, "Between the Lines:  On the Private and the Public"
Heidegger Circle, Seattle, Washington, AHistory, Catastrophe and Community: On Heidegger
and ‘the’ Greeks"
Loyola University, "Ruins and Roses: Hegel and Heidegger on Memory, Mourning and Sacrifice"
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, "Thinking and Painting"
1989    Spindell Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, "Heidegger and the Limits of Praxis"
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, "Heidegger and the Greeks / History and Catastrophe@
Universität Heidelberg, Germany, "Fission and Fusion: Gadamer on the Finitude of Language"
IAPL, Atlanta, Georgia, "The Poetics and Politics of Pain"
Nietzsche Society, Berkeley California, "Between Dawn and Twilight"
Celan Conference, New York, "Pain in Language"
1988    SPEP, Chicago, Illinois, "Politicizing Heidegger"
University of Warwick, England, "Language and the Possibilities of Politics"
Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, "Nietzsche: On Words and Music"
IAPL, South Bend, Indiana, "Poeisis and Praxis"
APA, Portland, Oregon, "Techne and Texuality"
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, "Im Schatten des Kunstwerkes"
University of Toronto, Canada, "Poeisis and Praxis"
1987    Rice University, "Heidegger and the Question of Action"
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Language and Mimesis" and "Heidegger's Way with Language"
1986                TRIP, Binghamton, New York, "The Hermeneutic Dimension of Translation"
University of Warwick, England, "Circles‑‑Hermeneutic and Otherwise"
SUNY-Buffalo, "Art, Artifice and Nature"
1985    Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, SILAT Conference, "Art, Artifice, and Nature"
1984                SAGP Aristotle Conference, New York, "On Physis and Techne"
1983    Fernand Braudel Center, "Critical Theory: The Problem of the Critique of Ideology"
TRIP, Binghamton, New York, "Translating Philosophy"
1982                University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, "What is Philosophy?"
1981                Colgate University, "Merleau-Ponty on Violence, Terror and Humanism"
Georgetown University, "On the Contemporary Situation of Metaphysics"

ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS

            2006                Honorary Professor of Humanities, Universitá Roma, “La Sapienza”
            2005                Institute for Arts and Humanities Teaching Award
            2005                Institute for Arts and Humanities Individual Faculty Award
1995                University Faculty Research Award
1993                PDQWL Award
1988                University Research Semester Award
1987                University Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (SUNY)
1987                Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (New York State)
1987                SUNY Faculty Summer Research Grant
1987                Experienced Faculty Travel Grant
1985                New Faculty Development Award
1984                SUNY Faculty Summer Research Grant
1984                Phi Beta Kappa, Bucknell University
1978                Fulbright‑Hays Full Fellowship, Universität Freiburg

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

1994-                           Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie

            Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

2006    “Über das Fremde,” Universität Freiburg (w/Günter Figal) (15 speakers)
2005    Director, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy: “Memory and Responsibility” (45 faculty/32 students)
2005    Rock Ethics Institute Conference, Penn State (w/ Shannon Sullivan): “The Difficulty of Ethical Life” (10 speakers)
2004    Hermeneutik und Griechische Philosophie, Freiburg, Germany (16 speakers)
1998    Heidegger Circle Meeting, Villanova University (14 speakers)
1998    Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy: “Language, Truth, Interpretation” (34 speakers)
1992    "Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture" Conference, Binghamton, University (32 speakers)
1991    "Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture" Conference, Binghamton University  (24 speakers)
1991    Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy: “On the Tragic” (53 speakers)

OTHER POSITIONS:

1992                Program Reviewer - Memphis State University
1990                NEH Grants Review Committee
1988-1990       Executive Committee, SPEP

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (details are available upon request):

Served on numerous committees at the departmental, college, and university levels since 1981.  Director of graduate studies in two different departments (Philosophy and Comparative Literature) and in two different universities.  Chaired several hiring committees as well as a number of significant review committees.   Director of almost two dozen dissertations, many undergraduate philosophy and honors theses, reader on several dozen other dissertations at my home and various other universities.  Referee for most major presses and several journals.  Written personnel evaluations for 18 different universities at all professional ranks.