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Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Biomedical Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy
The philosophy of mind is my primary research area with special emphasis upon personal identity and free will. Recently I have branched out into philosophy of religion and Asian philosophy.
Ph.D in Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1986
B.A., Baker University, 1966
Selected Publications
"The Elimination of Personal Identity,” Southwest Philosophy Review Forthcoming 2003
“Multiple Personality, Multiple Persons and the Human Animal,” in Advances in Psychology Research Volume 14, Forthcoming 2003
“Abortion and the Value of the Future”, The Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2002
“A Future Like Ours Revisited”, The Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2002
“Multiple Personality and Personal Identity”, Philosophical Psychology, December 2001
Editor, God, Evil and Human Freedom, Second Edition, Pearson Publishing Group:
Needham Heights, MA, 2000.
“The Morality of Abortion and the Deprivation of Futures”, The Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2000.
“The Personal Identity of Human Beings”, The Journal of Consciousness Studies,
April 2000
“Humans, Persons and Selves,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Spring, 1997
"Focused Topic Introductory Philosophy Courses," Teaching Philosophy, June 1996
Selected Presentations at Professional Conferences
“The Unity of Consciousness and the Illusion of a Substantial Self,” 2002 Institute for Research in the Humanities Public Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Transparent Persons,” 2002 Meetings of the Society of Christian Philosophers
“A Dilemma for Psychological Continuity Theories of Personal Identity,” 2001 Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference
“Multiple Personality as a Failure in Autobiographical Memory”,
2001 Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association
“Two Advantages of Punctualist Theories of Personal Identity”, 1999 Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference.
“Reconstructive Theories of Memory and the Justification of Self-Concern”,
1998 Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association
“Immunity to Error in First Person Memory Reports”, 1998 Pacific
Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association
University of Wisconsin Centers Philosophy Department
University of Wisconsin, Marathon Center
