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Curriculum Vitae: Richard Cobb-Stevens

Curriculum Vitae Richard Cobb-Stevens

Personal

Philosophy Department Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 phone: (617) 552 4179 email:[email protected]

Education

A.B. Boston College, 1958 M.A. Boston College, 1959 Th.L Collège St. Albert de Louvain, Belgium, 1966 Ph.D. Université de Paris, 1971

Professional Status

1959-62 Instructor in Philosophy at Holy Cross College 1971-74 Assistant Professor at Boston College 1975-88 Associate Professor at Boston College 1989-2009 Professor of Philosophy at Boston College 1977-2009 Director of the Philosophy Department's Seminar on Teaching Philosophy 1991-2009 Director, University Core Curriculum Committee 1993-2002 Chair, Philosophy Department

Publications

Books

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James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. (received the Gustave O. Arlt award from the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in 1976)

Husserl and Analytic Philosophy. The Hague: Kluwer, 1990. Abstract

Husserl et la philosophie analytique. trans. Éric Paquette. Paris: J. Vrin, 1998.

Editor, Proceedings of the XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume V: Epistemology, Bowling Green: Documentation Center, 2000.

Articles

"Spatial and Temporal Models in Husserl's Ideen II," Cultural Hermeneutics, III (1975), 105-17.

"The Problem of Conscience in Moral Philosophy," Boston College Studies in Philosophy, V (1977), 66-79.

"Spatial and Temporal Models for a Philosophy of Mind," Proceedings of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, Milwaukee: Marquette Univ. Press, 1977, 1-17.

"A Fresh Look at James's Radical Empiricism," in Ronald Bruzina and Bruce Wilshire, eds. Phenomenology: Dialogues and Bridges. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1982, pp. 109-21.

"Hermeneutics Without Relativism: Husserl's Theory of Mind," Research in Phenomenology. XII (1982), 127-48.

"Review article: Rockmore, Thomas, et al. Marxism and Alternatives: Towards the Conceptual Interaction among Soviet Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism, and Phenomenology,"Studies in Soviet Thought, XXIII (1982), 280-89.


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"Body, Spirit, and Ego in Husserl's Ideen II," Analecta Husserliana, XVII (1983), 243-58.

"Transcendental and Empirical Dimensions in Husserl's Phenomenology," in Hugh Silverman, John Sallis, and Thomas Seebohm, eds. Continental Philosophy in America. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1983, pp. 16-36.

"Derrida and Husserl on the Status of Retention," Analecta Husserliana, XVII (1985), 367-81.

"Transcendental Philosophy and Emancipatory Communication," in Klaus Nellen, ed. Die Relevanz der Lebensweltproblematik für die Grundlegung der Socialwissenschaften. Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen 1985.

"Association and Sameness in James's Principles of Psychology," in Michael DeArmey, Lester Embree, and Stephen Skousgaard, eds. The Philosophical Psychology of William James. Washington: University Press of America, 1986, pp. 95-111.

"Hobbes and Husserl on Reason and Its Limits," in Robert Sokolowski, ed. Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition: Essays in Phenomenology. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy. Vol. XVIII. Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1988, pp. 47-61.

"Logical Analysis and Cognitive Intuition," Études phénoménologiques, VII (1988), 3-32.

"Descartes and Hobbes on the Passions," Analecta Husserliana, XIX (1989), 145-62.

"Husserl on Reason and History," Phenomenological Inquiry, XII (1988), 87-101.

"Being and Categorial Intuition," Review of Metaphysics, XLIV (1990), 43-66.

"Filozofia Transcendentalna a Wispolnota Komunikacyjna,"



in Zladislaw Krasnodebski Swiat Prezzywany. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1990, pp. 276-308.

"Husserl and Historicism: Fifty Years Later," Analecta Husserliana, XXXVII (1991), 3-16.

"Eidetic Intuition and Historical Interpretation," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, LXVI (1992), 261-75.

"Les interprétations analytiques de Husserl," in Gerard Granel et Elizabeth Rigal, La phénoménologie aux confins. Mauvezin: T.E.R. Press, 1992, pp. 7-31.

"Husserl and His Analytic Interpreters: Some Revealing Questions," Phenomenological Inquiry, XVI (1992), 28-51.

"The Beginnings of Phenomenology: Husserl and His Predecessors," Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. VIII: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1993), 5-37.

"Getting Down to Basics: the Core Curriculum," Opportunities. Boston College: Making the Difference for Students, ed. James A. Woods, 127-31.

Introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness. New edition (Norwalk: Easton Press, 1996), vii-xi.

"Splendid Necessities," in John J. Drummond and James G. Hart, eds., The Truthful and the Good: Essays in Honor of Robert Sokolowski (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), pp. 107-119.

"William James," Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Lester Embree (The Hague: Kluwer, 1997), pp. 363-366.

"La Géométrie des Regulae: Mathesis et Ontologie" in Olivier Depré et Danielle Lories, eds., Lire Descartes aujourdh'hui, (Louvain-la Neuve, Edition Peeters, 1997), pp. 85-107.

"James and Husserl: Time and the Intentionality of Presence and Absence," in Self- Awareness, Temporality and Alterity,



ed. Dan Zahavi, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998), pp. 41-57.

"Avant-Propos," Brentano, Husserl, and Frege, Études phénoménologiques, XXVII- XXVIII (1998), 3-5.

"Two Stages in Husserl's Critique of Brentano's Theory of Judgment," Études phénoménologiques, XXVII-XXVIII (1998), 193-212.

"Epistemology," Introduction to Proceedings of the XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume V: Epistemology. Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000.

"Aristotelian Themes in Husserl's Logical Investigations," One Hundred Years of Phenomenology. Eds. D. Zahavi and F. Stjernfelt Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.

"Husserlian Hermeneutics," Ed. Babette E. Babich, Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh's Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002), 153-61.

"Husserl's Fifth Logical Investigation," Husserl's Logical Investigations. Ed. Daniel Dahlstrom. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003. pp. 95-107.

"On Friendship: A Splendid Necessity," Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski. Eds. Guy Mansini. O.S.B. and James Hart. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2003.

"The Other Husserl and the Standard Interpretation," Review-article: Donn Welton, The Other Husserl: Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology. Husserl Studies (2003).

"Aristotelian Nous in Husserl's Philosophy," The Impact of Aristotelianism on Modern Philosophy. Ed. Ricardo Pozzo, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. pp. 231-247.

"Fin du scientisme? Philosophie contemporaine et religion," Ed. Philippe Capelle. Raison Philosophique et Christianisme,



Paris: Cerf, 2004. Gary S. Schultz and Richard Cobb-Stevens "Husserl's Theory of Parts and Wholes and the Methodology of Nursing Research," Nursing Philosophy, 5 (2005), 216-233.

"Husserl's Phenomenology," Review-Article:Dan Zahavi, Husserl's Phenomenology. Husserl Studies, Vol. 21, #3 (2005).

"Phenomenology, Linguistic Interntionality, Affectivity and Villemoes' New Therapy for Schizophrenics" (co-authored with Wilfred Ver Eecke) Analecta Husserliana. the Yearbook of Phenomenological Research. Vol. 84. Ed. A Tymieniecka. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005.

"L'imagination et les mathématiques," Descartes en Kant. Eds. M. Fichant and J.-L. Marion, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006, pp. 79-95.

"Philosophy as Mediation between Science and Ethical Choices," Philosophie comme Médiation. Ed. Philippe Capelle, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2007, pp. 79-95.

"William James," Anthologie: Philosophie et Théologie, Tome 4 . Ed. Philippe Capelle and Jean Greisch, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2008.

Reviews

Copleston, Frederick. A History of Philosophy. Vol. IX: Maine de Biran to Sartre. New York: Newman Press, 1975. - in Religious Media Today, I (1976), 47-8.

Manier, A. The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978. - in Review of Metaphysics, XXXII (1978), 364-5.

Brand, Gerd. The Central Texts of Wittgenstein. Translated by Robert Innis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. - in Review of Metaphysics, XXXV (1981),598-9.



Chisholm, Roderick and Haller, Rudolph. Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos: Beiträge zur Brentano Konferenz. (Graz, 1977). Amsterdam: Éditions Rodopi, 1978. - in Man and World, XIV (1981), 74-6.

Edwards, Paul. Heidegger on Death: A Critical Evaluation. Monist Monograph. Lasalle: The Hegeler Institute, 1979. - in The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, IX (1981), 241-3.

Bühler, Karl. Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory. Translated with a commentary by Robert Innis. New York: Plenum Press, 1982. - in International Philosophical Quarterly, XXIII (1983), 447-9.

Richir, Marc. Recherches phénoménologiques: du schématisme phénoménologique transcendentale. Bruxelles: Ousia, 1983. - in Phenomenology Bulletin, VI (1984), 54-8.

Melle, Ullrich. Das Wahrnehmungsproblem und seine Verwändlung in phänomenologischer Einstellung. Untersuchungen zu den phänomenologischen Wahrnehmungs-theorie von Husserl, Gurwitsch, und Merleau-Ponty. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1983. - in Phenomenological Inquiry, VIII (1984)

Kockelmans, Joseph, J. On the Truth of Being: Reflections on Heidegger's Later Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1984. - in Phenomenological Inquiry, IX (1985), 132-4.

Heffernan, George. Bedeutung und Evidenz bei Edmund Husserl. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1984. - in Husserl Studies, II (1985), 225-8.

Strasser, Stephen. Understanding and Explanation: Basic Ideas Concerning the Humanity of the Human Sciences. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1985. - in Phenomenological Inquiry, X (1986), 139-42.

Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo. Translated by Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1985. - in Phenomenological Inquiry, X (1986), 137-9.



Lingis, Alfonso. Phenomenological Explanations. Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1986. - in Phenomenological Inquiry, XI (1987), 78-9.

Miller, J. Philip. Numbers in Presence and Absence: A Study of Husserl's Philosophy of Mathematics. The Hague, Nijhoff, 1982. - in Review of Metaphysics, XXXIX (1985), 98-100.

Taminiaux, Jacques. Dialectic and Difference: Finitude in Modern Thought. Translated and edited by Robert Crease and James Decker. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985. - in Review of Metaphysics, XL (1986), 787-8.

Edie, James M. William James and Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1987. - in Proceedings of the C.S. Peirce Society, XXII (1988), 88-93.

Cohen-Solal, Annie. Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life. Translated by Anna Cancogni. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987; Hayman, Ronald. Sartre. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. - in America, CLIX (1988), 296-8.

Rorty, Amélie. O. Mind in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Mind. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988. -in Review of Metaphysics, XLIV (1990), 101-3.

Drummond John J. Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism: Noema and Object. The Hague: Kluwer, 1990. -in Review of Metaphysics, XLVI (1992).

Soffer, Gail. Husserl and the Question of Relativism. The Hague: Kluwer, 1991 - in Review of Metaphysics, XLX (1996), 117-8.

Smith, P. Christopher. The Hermeneutics of Original Argument. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998- in Review of Metaphysics, XLXV (2001).

Sokolowski, Robert. Introduction to Phenomenology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 - in The Thomist, LXVI (2002), 159-163.



Kestenbaum, Victor. The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent, Review of Metaphysics (2005).

Robert Sokolowski. Phenomenology of the Human Person, Review of Metaphysics (2009).

Scholarly Activity

Participation in National or Regional Meetings of Learned Societies

"Transcendental and Empirical Motifs in Husserl's Thought," The Husserl Circle, Pennsylvania State University, April 1976.

"Ego and Person in Husserl's Ideen II," The Husserl Circle, Wilfred Laurier University, April 1977.

"Husserl's Models for Mind," Phenomenology and Literature Convention, Radcliffe, May 1979.

"William James's Theory of Association," American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 1981.

"William James's Radical Empiricism," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New School for Social Research, October 1983.

"Derrida on Deconstruction," Phenomenology and Literature Convention, Harvard University, May 1985.

respondent: "Husserl and Heidegger" by Prof. Françoise Dastur (Univ. of Paris) - Boston Forum, Harvard University, February, 1986.

"Roderick Chisholm's Phenomenology and Realism," The American Catholic Philosophical Association, Milwaukee, April 1986.

"Husserl and Wittgenstein on the Self," Boston Forum,



Harvard University, January 1986.

"Phenomenology and Realism," chairperson and commentator, American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 1986.

"Husserl's Critique of Hobbes," Boston Forum, Radcliffe, January 1987.

"Husserl and Historicism: Fifty Years Later," Boston Forum, Radcliffe, January 1988.

"Husserl and Heidegger on Scientific Method," Heidegger Circle, Notre Dame University, May 1989.

respondent: "Husserl's Transcendental Turn" by J. Mohanty (Purdue University) - Boston Forum, Harvard University, February, 1990.

respondent: "Postmodernism" by Kenneth Schmitz (University of Toronto) - Boston College, January, 1991.

"Hintikka's Interpretation of Wittgenstein's Phenomenology," Boston Forum, Radcliffe, March 1991.

"Husserl and Analytic Philosophy," Boston Forum, Harvard University, March 1992.

respondent: "Starting Out From Zero: The Hazards of Repudiating Tradition," by Christiana Hoff Sommers (Clark University) - Boston College, December 1992.

"A Husserlian Response to Derrida," Boston Forum, Harvard University, February 1993.

respondent: "Heidegger's Being and Lao Tzu's Tao," by Benjamin Schwarz (Harvard University), Harvard University, March 1993.

respondent: "Paul Ricoeur's on the Self and Ethical Responsibility," by Robert Sweeney (John Carroll



University), American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December, 1993.

"Husserl's Interpretation of Galileo," Boston Forum, Harvard University, March 1994.

"Categorical Intuition," American Philosophical Association Convention, Boston, December, 1994.

respondent: "Fiction and Intentionality" by Amie Thomasson (Univ. of California at Irvine) - American Philosophical Association Convention, Boston, December, 1994.

respondent: "William James and Contemporary Pragmatism" by Mitchell Aboulafia (University of Houston) - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Rice University, March 1995.

respondent: "The Varieties of Ecological Experience" by Don Ihde (SUNY/Stonybrook) -Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October, 1995

respondent: "Towards a New Reading of Husserl," by Debabraha Sinha (Brock University) -Harvard University, January, 1996.

respondent: Woosuk Park, Sharon Kaye, and Yiwei Zheng on "Medieval Philosophy," World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.

respondent: William Murnion, Phillip Cary, and Johannes Brackendorf on "Augustinian Thought," World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.

"Hermeneutics and Aristotle's Rhetoric," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Oregon, October 1999.

"Kant and Husserl on Self-Consciousness," Husserl Circle, Lima (Peru), July, 2002.

"Donn Welton's The Other Husserl," Society for



Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October, 2002.

"Descartes and Husserl on Time-Consciousness," Phenomenology and Time: Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, October, 2002.

"Towards a Genuine Reciprocal Dialogue," Crossing the Analytic-Continental Divide, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December, 2002. respondent: Wilfred Ver Eecke, "Phenomenology, Linguistic Intentionality, and Helping the Mentally Ill," Philadelphia, December, 2002.

"L'Imagination et les mathématiques," Congrès International "Descartes dans Kant," Paris-Sorbonne, June 2004.

"Philosophy as Mediation Between Science and Ethical Choices," Congrès Mondial de la Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie, Mexico City, September 2004.

"Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy," Simposio Internacional: Fenomenologica: Sentido, Limites y Perspectivas, Santiago, Chile, October 2005.

"Husserl's Unfinished Philosophy of Science," Husserl Circle, Wellesley College, June 2006.

“Facilitating International Dialogue among Philosophers at Catholic Institutions: an Invitation to the World Conference of Catholic Institutions of Philosophy,” American Catholic Philosophical Association, Denison University (October, 2006)

"William James on Time and the Self," William James: Principles of Psychology, Boston College, April, 2007.

"Liberal Studies: Tradition and Innovation," St.Michael's College, September, 2007.



"The Teleology of Husserlian Hermeneutics: Derrida on 'The Origin of Geometry'," Contemporary Philosophy: Jacques Derrida, Boston College (October, 2007).

Invited Papers

"William James on Ethical Judgment," Boston University, October 1978.

"Freud and Phenomenology," Brandeis University, March 1980.

"William James's Theory of Personal Identity," University of Maine, October 1982.

"Dagfin Føllesdal's The Justification of Logic and Mathematics in Husserl's Phenomenology," University of Pittsburgh, September 1985.

"Husserl on Reason and its Limits," Catholic University, October 1985

"The New Pragmatism," John Carroll University, February 1988.

"Aristotle and Husserl on Categorial Intuition," Georgetown University, March 1990.

"Husserl and Historicism," Seattle University, June 1991.

"Les interprétations analytiques de Husserl," Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris, November 1991.

"Nietzsche and Hobbes," Nietzsche Sesquicentennial in Fiesole (Italy), July 1994.

"Splendid Necessities," - at a conference honoring the work of Robert Sokolowski, Catholic University, Washington, November 1994.



"Husserlian Hermeneutics: Husserl's Interpretation of Galileo," SUNY-Stonybrook, March 1995.

"Nietzsche and Hobbes: Knowledge as Illusion and Power," Seattle University, March 1995.

"Analytic Readings of Husserl: Some Revealing Questions," Seattle University, March 1995.

"Phenomenology as Aristotelian Heritage," Seattle University, March 1995.

"La Géométrie des Regulae," Colloque Descartes, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium, May 1996.

"Sartre and Husserl on the Body," University of Copenhagen, December 1996.

"The Intentionality of the Absent and of Absence in Husserl’s Lectures on Time- Consciousness," University of Copenhagen, December 1996.

"Sokolowski's Ethical Theory," University of Kentucky, October 1997.

"Mind and Matter in Husserl's Philosophy," Catholic University of America, November 1997.

"William James: Temps et identité personelle," École Normale, Paris, May 1998.

"Husserl on Time-Concsciousness and Kinesthesia," World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.

"Sartre on the Possibility of Love," Fordham University, April, 1999.

"Some Thoughts on Teaching Philosophy," Fordham University, April 1999.

Workshop Presentation: "Philosophy in American Catholic



Universities," Institut Catholique de Paris," April, 1999.

Workshop Presentation: "Philosophy in American Catholic Universities," Gregorian University, Rome, April, 1999.

"Husserl and Aristotle," Catholic University, Washington, D.C., November 1999.

"Fin du scientisme? Philosophie contemporaine et religion," Congrès International: Raison philosophique et Christianisme, UNESCO, Paris, March 2000.

"Philosophie et Sciences," Congrès International: Raison philosophique et Christianisme, UNESCO, Paris, March 2000.

"Husserl's Fifth Logical Investigation," Boston University, March, 2000.

"Jesuit Core vs. General Education," Jesuit Core Curriculum Conference," Seattle University, March 2000.

"On Friendship: A Splendid Necessity," St. Meinrad's Abbey, Meinrad, Indiana, April 2000.

"Aristotelian Themes in Husserl's Logical Investigations," University of Copenhagen, May 2000.

"Thoughts on Core Curricula," Regis University (Denver), October, 2000.

"Jean-Paul Sartre," Newton North High School, February 2001.

"Dan Zahavi's Account of Subjectivity and Indexicality," Husserl Circle, University of Indiana, February 2001.

"Husserl on Judgment: A Critique of Brentano and Frege," Université de Québec à Montréal and McGill University (Montréal), May 2001.



"Husserl on Formalization: Mathematics and Theoria," Ecole Normale (Paris), May 2001.

"Husserl on Self-Consciousness," University of Oslo, December 2001. "The Core Curriculum: Tradition and Innovation," LeMoyne College, April 2003. [cf. http://www.lemoyne.edu/academics/presentation_archive.htm]

"Continental Philosophy: Towards the Future," Boston College, September 2003.

"Husserl's Philosophy," Boston College School of Nursing, October, 2003.

"Husserl's Early Mathematical Writings," Boston University, April, 2006.

"Jesuit Tradition and the Core Curriculum," Boston College, November, 2006.

"Some Philosophers I have Come to Love," Fitzgibbons Lecture, Boston College, May, 2009.

"The Contemporary Relevance of Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology," The Catholic University of America, October, 2009.

Courses

Contemporary French Philosophy (Immersion Program)

Machiavelli and Hobbes (graduate)

Frege and Wittgenstein (graduate)

Husserl's Logical Investigations (graduate)

Husserl's Later Works (graduate)



Jean-Paul Sartre

Derrida: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction (graduate)

Modernism and the Arts [Perspectives II]

New Scientific Visions [Perspectives IV]

William James

American Pragmatism

19th and 20th Century Philosophy

Service at Boston College

University

The Newton Task Force (1975-76)

Organizing Committee for Andover Weekends (1978-98)

University Conduct Board (1977-83)

University Council on Teaching (1980-86)

Mellon Foundation Evaluation Committee (1979-80)

Executive Committee for the Evening College (1982-99)

University Academic Council (1984-99)

General Evaluation Committee for Boston College's Self-Study (1985-86)

Graduate Council on Teaching Fellows (1986-88)

Faculty Compensation Committee (1986-88)

Arts and Sciences Promotions Committee (1989-91)



University Committee on Harassment (1990)

A & S Graduate Educational Policy Committee (1990-93)

University Core Development Committee, Director (1991-2009)

University Academic Planning Committee (1994-96)

Chair: Subcommittee on Jesuit/Catholic Identity

UAPC Implementation Committee (1996-97)

Search Committee, Academic Vice-President (1997-98)

Cornerstone Committee (1997-98)

Provost's Advisory Committee (2006-09)

Philosophy Department

Departmental Director of the Seminar on Teaching Philosophy (1977-2009)

Undergraduate Committee (1973-77; 1983-86)

Executive Committee (1975-77; 1979-81; 1983-85; 1987-88)

Graduate Committee (1991-2005, 2006-08)

Hiring Committee (1978-79; 1987-94; 1997-98; 1998-99, 2000-01, 2003-05, 2007, 2009)

Graduate Evaluation Committee (1990-91, 2003-04)

Service for Other Institutions

Boards of Editors

Phenomenological Inquiry 1982-2001



Études phénoménologiques 1985-2009

Phaenomenologica 1994-2009

Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 1992-2005

Revista Portugesa de Filosophia (1995-2009)

Membership in Learned Societies

The American Catholic Philosophical Association 1975-2004

The American Philosophical Association 1971-2004

The Husserl Circle 1971-2009

The Metaphysical Society of America 1975-2001

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 1971-2008

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 1992-2004

Vice President: Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie 1999-2006

Pre-Publication Reviews

Cambridge University Press

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Northwestern University Press

State University of New York Press

Catholic University of America Press

External Evaluations



Philosophy Department, St. John's University, Queens, April 1998

Philosophy Department, Seattle University, May 2001

Philosophy Department, Fordham University, April 2002

Emmanuel College, December, 2004

Regis College (Denver), March 2005

Loyola College (Baltimore) March 2005

Dissertation Boards

Boston University (3 dissertations)

Brandeis University

University of Toronto

Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion

Boston College Law School

Boston University

Catholic University of America (3)

Clark University

Fordham University

State University of New York

University of Colorado

Reviewer for Research Fellowships



National Endowment for the Humnanities

Fonds pour la Formation de Cherchers et l'Aide à la Recherche (Canada)

Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique (France)

Awards and Grants

1975: recipient of the Gustave O. Arlt award, presented by the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States

1978: summer research grant from Boston College

1978: full-year research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities

1981: research grant from the Mellon Foundation

1983: summer grant for a new course proposal from Boston College

1988: summer research grant from Boston College

1988: faculty fellowship from Boston College

1992: Patrick A. Gerschel Grant for Core Curriculum Development

1993: Patrick A. Gerschel Grant for Core Curriculum Development

1994: grant from NEH and NSF for Core Curriculum Development

1995: grant from NEH and NSF for Core Curriculum Development


