Eric received his B.S. in computer science from Pennsylvania State University, his M.S. in computer science from the University of Delaware, and his M.A. and Ph. D. in phenomenological psychology from Duquesne University. Eric’s areas of interest have included (1) exploring the psychology of teaching from a phenomenological standpoint, (2) rethinking the meaning of academic intellectuality in humanistic terms, and (3) exploring the psychological significance of living in a postmodern, telematic, technological world. Eric’s primary current interest lies in innovating a psychology of decadence and related phenomena.
Hobbies
Music (guitar, piano, bass, digital recording, performing, etc.)
Physical fitness (running, weight-training)
Chess
Languages & etymology (Classical Greek, Latin, Spanish)
Mathematics & Computer programming
Poetry, Shakespeare
Influential Works
The Ecstasy of Communication and Simulation and Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard)
The Ethics of Ambiguity, (Simone de Beauvoir)
I and Thou (Martin Buber)
Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse),
Journey to Ixtlan (Carlos Castaneda)
My 60 Memorable Games (Bobby Fischer)
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Sigmund Freud)
Being & Time and Poetry, Language, Thought (Martin Heidegger)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hoffstadter)
Ideas (Edmund Husserl)
Psychology and Postmodernism (Steiner Kvale, ed.)
Translated Works, esp. Seminar I and II (Jacques Lacan)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay)
The Discovery of Being and Love & Will (Rollo May)
The Further Reaches of Human Nature (Abraham Maslow)
The Phenomenology of Perception (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Collected Translated Works (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence (Robert Pirsig)
Collected Translated Works (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Freedom to Learn and On Becoming a Person (Carl Rogers)
Being & Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Collected Works (William Shakespeare)
To learn more about Eric's view of life, the universe and everything:
A personal vision statement
Radical questions for psychology
My 9 rules of thumb for teaching
A new approach to an old course
A description of a new, evolving course offering
Post-apocalyptic films and the postmodern apocalypse
Part I: A conversation about humanistic psychology
Part II: A further conversation about humanistic psychology
Part III: Still more conversation about humanistic psychology
Vision and Aims of AHP (Association of Humanistic Psychology)
The Post-modern Intensification of Humanistic Psychology
Postmodern Humanistic Psychology: Revisioning the Academy
