Robert Lane

October 15, 2012

 

 

Teaching

 

Date

Title

Institution and Department

 

 

 

Fall 2012 -

 

 

Fall 2007 – Summer 2012

Professor

 

 

Associate Professor

 

University of West Georgia

Philosophy Program

 

University of West Georgia

Philosophy Program

 

Fall 2003 - Spring 2007

 

Assistant Professor

 

 

University of West Georgia

Philosophy Program

 

Fall 2002 - Spring 2003

 

Visiting Assistant Professor

State University of West Georgia

Philosophy Program

 

Spring 1999 - Spring 2002

 

Adjunct Professor

North Georgia College and State University

Department of Psychology and Sociology

 

Summer 2001

 

Part Time Instructor

Clayton College and State University

Department of Humanities

 

Summer 2001

 

 

Part Time Instructor

Georgia Perimeter College – Lawrenceville

Department of Humanities

 

Fall 1998

 

Part Time Instructor

Georgia State University

Department of Philosophy

 

Fall 1993 to Spring 1996

Teaching Assistant

University of Miami

Department of Philosophy

 

 

Student Presentations at National and Regional Meetings

 

Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," 9th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2012. (Included in the Selected Proceedings of the conference.)

 

Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," Fifth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 18, 2012.

 

Leviell Waits, “Charles Sanders Peirce: Discrepancies with the Final Opinion,” Fourth Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA, February 19, 2011.

 

Donny Smith, “Dewey and Truth as Epistemology,” 7th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 16-17, 2010. Paper included in the Selected Proceedings of the conference.

 

Charles Bauch, “Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power,” 2009 Culture and Conflict Conference, Macon State College, Macon, GA, April 4, 2009.

 

Charles Bauch, “Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power,” Southeast Philosophy Conference, Clayton State University, Atlanta, GA, February 16, 2008.

 

Timothy Wright, “What is it All For?” Fifth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2007.

 

Philip Brewer, “Truth Beyond Meaning,” Fifth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-7, 2007.

 

Philip Brewer, “Truth Beyond Meaning,” Eleventh Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 9-10, 2007.

 

Michelle Fellows, “Peirce’s Appropriately Named Argument for the Reality of God,” Tenth Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 10-11, 2006.

 

Timothy Wright, “A Defense of Ethical Egoism,” Fourth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, March 30-April 1, 2006.

 

Brian Larkin, “Virtue Ethics and the Military Profession,” Third Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 2, 2005.

 

Kristina Swim, “‘I a Child and Thou a Lamb’: Leon Kass’ Criticism of Reproductive Human Cloning,” Second Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 10, 2004.

 

 

Student Presentations at UWG

 

Micah Dickie, "An Exploration of Peirce’s Method of Science," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.

 

Alex Richardson, "Perniciously Relative: A Critical Analysis of Dewey’s Pragmatic Account of Truth," UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 12, 2012.

 

Dalila Ozier "Leaving the Vat: A Critical Examination of Putnam’s Brains," UWG Research Day (Humanities Division), April 3, 2012.

 

Matt Lee, “Ancient Philosophy and Modern Medicine,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.

 

Elizabeth Mathis,  “Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Concepts of Personhood,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.

 

Lewis Williams, “A Defense of Suicide,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 7, 2011.

 

Alice Barker, “A Critical Evaluation of Peirce’s Defense of the Method of Science in ‘The Fixation of Belief,’“ UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.

 

Kevin King, “Theory and Practice,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.

 

Eduardo Mendez, “The Will to Believe and Academic Honesty,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.

 

Donny Smith, “Dewey and Truth as Epistemology,” UWG English and Philosophy Department Undergraduate Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, April 8, 2010.

 

Charles Bauch, “Virtue Ethics and Capitalist Power.” UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, March 2008. Charles placed second in the Humanities area.

 

Charles Bauch, “Not Just Deserts, but the Whole Meal,” UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, March 2007.

 

David Ellis, “The Problems with Capital Punishment, and Possible Resolutions,” UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, March 2006. David tied for first runner-up in the Humanities area.

 

Kristina Swim, “‘I a Child and Thou a Lamb’: Leon Kass’ Criticism of Reproductive Human Cloning,” UWG Research Day, Humanities Section, February 2005. Kristina was first runner-up in the Humanities area.

 

 

Service to Institution

 

Director of the Philosophy Program, July 2010-

 

Committee membership:

 

BOR Academic Advisory Committee on Philosophy, 2003-04; 2009-10; chairperson, 2010-


Faculty Senate, representative for the College of Arts and Sciences, fall 2010; representative for the College of Arts and Humanities, spring 2011.

 

Faculty Senate Budget Committee, representative for the College of Arts and Sciences, 2009-10; representative for the Faculty Senate, 2010-11.

 

Search Committee for Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, September 2010

 

Undergraduate Academic Programs Committee, 2009-10

 

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean (Social Sciences) Search Committee, 2009

 

Department of English and Philosophy Search Committee (for chairperson), 2009

 

Department of English and Philosophy Faculty Advisory Committee, representative for the Philosophy Program, 2009-10

 

Department of English and Philosophy Faculty Status Committee, chairperson, 2007-08; member, 2008-

 

COAS Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, 2007-2009

 

Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2005-2007

 

Learning Resources Committee, 2004-06

 

Philosophy Program Search Committee, 2003-04; 2004-05; 2005-6; 2008-9; 2009-10

 

Advising of student organizations:

 

Advisor, Phi Sigma Tau (National Honor Society in Philosophy), Georgia Iota Chapter, 2004-

 

Co-Advisor, West Georgia Philosophical Society, 2003-2004; Advisor, 2004-2007

 

Participation in educational activities:

 

Co-Coordinator (with Julie Bartley) of the Science and Society Learning Community, 2003-04

 

Other service:

 

“Research Ethics,” presentation for UWG “Generating Enthusiasm for Math and Science” (GEMS) Program, June 8, 2006

 

Safe Zone Ally, UWG Safe Zone Program, 2005-

 

Philosophy Program Representative, Big Night Humanities Panel, 2005-07

 

Volunteer Advisor for Registration, EXCEL Center, November 2003, April 2004; November 2004; April 2005

 

“Critical Thinking and Problem Solving,” presentations in EXCEL Center’s Seminars for Success Series, October 1, 2003; September 29, 2004

 

CSI Advisor for FYRST Program, 2003-4

 

“Writing Philosophy Papers,” presentation to the Writing Center Internship class, March 28, 2003

 

Webmaster, Philosophy Program [http://www.westga.edu/~phil/], 2002-

 

 

Academic Achievement

 

Degree

School

Years

Ph.D., Philosophy

University of Miami

1992 to 1998

 

B.A., Philosophy

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

1990 to 1992

B.A., Psychology

Samford University

1986 to 1990

 

 

Ph.D. Dissertation:

Charles Sanders Peirce and the Principle of Bivalence. Committee: Susan Haack

(chair), Leonard Carrier, Risto Hilpinen, Howard Pospesel, Ana Pastzor.

 

Honors:

Award of Academic Merit, University of Miami Graduate School, June 1998

 

Peirce Essay Contest, Co-Winner, December 1996

 

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Florida Philosophical Association, November 1995

 

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, May 1995

 

Outstanding Student Award for 1991-1992, Department of Philosophy,

University of Alabama at Birmingham, May 1992

 

 

Professional Growth

 

Membership and offices in professional societies

American Association of University Professors, Member, 2001- ; member of executive committee of UWG chapter, 2008-

 

American Philosophical Association, Member, 1998-2009

 

Charles S. Peirce Society, Member, 1998- ; Executive Committee Member, 2001-06; Secretary-Treasurer, 2007-12

 

Charles S. Peirce Foundation, Secretary-Treasurer, 2009-

 

Semiotic Society of America, 2010-11

 

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Member, 2001-

 

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Member, 2003-2006, 2009-10

 

 

Service to the profession

 

Reviewer of James Rachels, Elements of Moral Philosophy (sixth ed., by Stuart Rachels) , 2011

 

Reviewer for Philosophical Papers, 2010 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2004 [1 paper], 2007 [3 papers], 2009 [1 paper], 2010 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2008 [1 paper], 2010 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for the Pluralist, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2010 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for the History of Philosophy Quarterly, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2010 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for Philosophical Papers, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2010 [1 paper]

 

Review of Russ Shafer-Landau, The Fundamentals of Ethics, for Oxford University Press, 2010

 

Reviewer of proposal for Pragmatism: A Beginner’s Guide, OneWorld Publications, 2009

 

Reviewer of book on Peirce and normativity, Fordham University Press, 2009

 

Reviewer of proposal for The Rorty Reader, Wiley, 2008

 

Reviewer of proposal for Introduction to Ethics, Pearson, 2008

 

Reviewer for the British Journal of the History of Philosophy, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2008 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, peer-reviewed reference web site, 2008 [1 article]

 

Reviewer of book, Basic Ethics by Michael Boylan, Prentice-Hall, 2006

 

Reviewer for Bioethics, peer-reviewed philosophy journal, 2006 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer for the Journal of the History of Sexuality, peer-reviewed journal, 2006 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer of book proposal (introductory ethics text), Longman Publishers, 2006

 

Reviewer of book manuscript, Why Be Good? by Duncan Richter, Oxford University Press, 2006

 

Reviewer of book proposal, Ethics for AS by Noel Stewart, Polity Press, 2006

 

Reviewer of submissions for the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, July 22-27, 2006

 

Reviewer of book proposal, You and the State by Jan Narveson, Broadview Press, 2005

 

Reviewer of submissions for the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, July 13-18, 2005

 

Reviewer, Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 (provided list of errors in 9th edition of Logic and Philosophy, a symbolic logic textbook by Tidman and Kahane; errors will be corrected in 10th edition)

 

Reviewer for Social Theory and Practice, peer reviewed philosophy journal, 2004 [1 paper]

 

Reviewer of book proposal, Morality and the Movies: Introducing Ethics Through Film ed. by Dan Shaw, Blackwell Publishing, 2003

 

 

Grants and Funding

 

Faculty Research Grant, State University of West Georgia (“Peirce’s Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism,” $1,370), 2004-05

 

 

Editorial Appointments

 

Editor, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (September 2011  – ).

 

Associate Editor, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (December 2010 – August 2011)

 

 

Publications        

 

Books

 

(Associate Editor) Pragmatism: Old and New, ed. Susan Haack. Prometheus Books, 2006.

 

Refereed Articles

 

“The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part II,” Cognitio 12 (2), July-December 2011.

 

“The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part I,” Cognitio 12 (1), January-June 2011.

 

“Persons, Signs, Animals: A Peircean Account of Personhood,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (1), Winter 2009.

 

“Peirce’s Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4), October 2007.

 

“Synechistic Bioethics: How a Peircean Views the Abortion Debate,” Contemporary Pragmatism 3 (2), December 2006.

 

“Safety, Identity and Consent: A Limited Defense of Reproductive Human Cloning,” Bioethics 20 (3), June 2006.

 

“On Peirce’s Early Realism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society  40 (4), Fall 2004.

 

“Why I Was Never a Zygote,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (1), 2003.

 

“Peirce’s Triadic Logic Revisited,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35 (2), Spring 1999.

 

“Why Bacon’s Method is not Certain,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 16 (2), April 1999.

 

“Peirce’s ‘Entanglement’ with the Principles of Excluded Middle and Contradiction,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (3), Summer 1997.

 

Invited Articles

 

“Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics,” forthcoming in Peirce and Biosemiotics, ed. Vinicius Romanini, Springer, 2013.

 

“Peirception: Haack’s Critical Common-sensism about Perception,” in Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions. The Philosopher Responds to Her Critics, ed. Cornelis de Waal, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2007, 109-22.

 

Book Reviews

 

Peirce’s Theory of Signs by T. L. Short, Cambridge University Press, 2007, in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 46(4), October 2008.

 

Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate by John H. Evans, University of Chicago Press, 2002, in Nature Biotechnology 20, July 2002.

 

Voodoo Science by Robert Park, Oxford University Press, 2000, in Knowledge, Technology and Policy 13(2), Summer 2000.

 

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate by Susan Haack, University of Chicago Press, 1998, in Knowledge, Technology and Policy 12(4), Winter 2000.

 

Miscellaneous

 

“Evidence,” in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2007.

 

“James Kern Feibleman” and “Arthur Edward Murphy,” in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960, ed. John Shook. Thoemmes Press, 2005.

 

(Assistant Editor) The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy and Culture, ed. Edward Erwin. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.

 

“Principles of Excluded Middle and Contradiction” and “Triadic Logic,” in The Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce, January 2001, available at http://www.digitalpeirce.fee.unicamp.br .

 

 

Papers read

 

“Peirce on Semiotic and Metaphysical Indeterminacy,” meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Louisville, KY, October 22, 2010.

 

“The Second Incapacity: Peirce’s Denial of Intuition,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Charlotte, NC, March 13, 2010.

 

“The Second Incapacity: Peirce’s Denial of Intuition,” meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society, Atlanta GA, November 14, 2009.

 

“Vague Identity and Cut-Offs: Two Problems with Priest’s Solution to the Non-Standard Sorites,” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA, April 9-11, 2009.

 

“Peirce-onhood: Persons as Semiotic Animals,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, East Lansing, MI, March 14, 2008.

 

“Peirceonhood: A Neo-Peircean Account of Personhood,” International Conference on Persons, Asheville, NC, August 3, 2007.

 

“Synechistic Bioethics: A Peircean Approach to the Morality of Abortion,” meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society, Atlanta GA, March 18, 2006.

 

“Synechistic Bioethics: A Peircean Approach to the Morality of Abortion,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Antonio, TX, March 9-11, 2006.

 

“Oak Trees and Ashes: an Argument that Identity is Vague and Non-Transitive,” meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York, NY, December 30, 2005.

 

“Oak Trees and Ashes: an Argument that Identity is Vague and Non-Transitive,” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC, March 24, 2005.

 

“Oak Trees and Ashes: an Argument that Identity is Vague and Non-Transitive,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 19, 2005.

 

“Safety, Identity and Consent: A Limited Defense of Reproductive Human Cloning,” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, October 29, 2004.

 

“Getting Clear on Peirce’s Early Realism,” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA, April 8-10, 2004.

 

“Peirce’s Early Realism,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Birmingham, AL, March 4-6, 2004.

 

“Safety, Identity and Consent: A Limited Defense of Reproductive Human Cloning,” meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, TN, October 31-November 1, 2003.

 

“Are We Waiting in the Wings Before Conception?” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 17-19, Atlanta, GA, 2003.

 

“Are We Waiting in the Wings Before Conception?” meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 5, 2003.

 

“Peirception: Critical Common-Sensism about Perception,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, March 7-9, 2002.

 

“Blocking the Way of Inquiry? Peirce’s Rejection of Bivalence,” meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 17, 1999.

 

“Peirce’s Rejection of Information-Relative Possibility,” 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, March 5-7, 1998.

 

“Peirce’s ‘Entanglement’ with the Principles of Excluded Middle and Contradiction,” meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Ninety-Third Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December 27-30, 1996.

 

“Why Bacon’s Method is not Certain”, Florida Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, November 9-11, 1995.

 

 

Other Conference Activity

 

Session chair, annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, at the Pacific Division American Philosophical Association meeting, Seattle, WA, April 5, 2012.

 

Comments on Juliana Acosta López de Mesa,  “Peirce’s Philosophical Project from Chance to Evolutionary Love” and Jason Hills, “The Structure of Qualitative Thought,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane, WA, March 12, 2011.

 

Session chair, annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association meeting, New York, NY, December 28, 2009.

 

Session chair, “Philosophy of Language,” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 9-11, Savannah, GA, 2009.

 

Comments on Jonathan Weidenbaum, “Transcendence, Pathos, and the Romance of Science,” and Celia Bardwell-Jones, “Politicizing Peirce’s Reason: Dependency and Care in the Training of Reasoning,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, College Station, Texas, March 12-14, 2009.

 

Session chair, annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2008.

 

Comments on Richard A. S. Hall, “The Polytheism of William James,” International Conference on Persons, Asheville, NC, August 3, 2007.

 

Comments on Roger Ward, “Knowledge and Transformation in Peirce’s Reasoning and the Logic of Things” and Lara Trout, “Colorblindness and Paper Doubt: A Sociopolitical Application of Critical Common-Sensism,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Columbia, South Carolina, March 8-10, 2007.

 

Session chair, “Traditional Papers on Feminism and Liberation,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Bakersfield, CA, March 3-6, 2005.

 

Comments on Jonathan Weinberg, “Can Intuition be Attacked Without Risking Skepticism?,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 18-19, 2005.

 

Session chair, “Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness,” meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 17-19, Atlanta, GA, 2003.

 

Session chair, “The Limits of Perversity: Rorty and Peirce on Thought and Language,” meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, March 13-15, 2003.

 

 

Works in progress

 

The General and the Vague: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (book)

 

“The Varieties of Peircean Indeterminacy” (article)