Philip Blosser
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Duquesne University	PhD	Philosophy	1985
Villanova University	MA	Philosophy	1980
Westminster Theological Seminary	MA	Religion	1979
Sophia University (Tokyo)	BA	Asian Studies	1976

Areas of Specialization:

Moral Philosophy
Scheler’s phenomenology, ethics, and value theory
History of Philosophy
Phenomenology and Existentialism

Areas of Competence:

Aesthetics
Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
History and Philosophy of Law
Kant and Scheler
Catholic Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    2003 (Fall)      Harlaxton College, England, Visiting Professor
    1999-               Lenoir-Rhyne College, Professor
    1999 (Fall)      Harlaxton College, England, Visiting Professor
    1990-1994       Lenoir-Rhyne College, Associate Professor
    1986-               Wildacres, Little Switzerland, NC, Great Books Discussion Leader
    1984-1990       Lenoir-Rhyne College, Assistant Professor
    1982-1983       Duquesne University, Instructor

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

    1993-1998       Associate Director of Center for Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne College

AWARDS & HONORS

        2005 Catholic Blog Awards Finalist for Most Intellectual Blog
        2003 (Fall) Visiting Professor, Harlaxton College , England
        2003 (Spring) Release time from teaching for research, Lenoir-Rhyne College
        2002 Listed, Directory of American Scholars2002 Listed, Directory of American Scholars
        2000 (Summer) Summer Research Grant, Lenoir-Rhyne College
        1999 (Fall) Teaching sabbatical, Harlaxton College, England
        1998 Sabbatical-Professional Development Leave
        1993 Honorary member, Alpha Lamda Delta Honors Fraternity
        1991 Lenoir-Rhyne Institutional Grant for Summer Research
        1991 Mu Sigma Epsilon Scholastic Honors Society
        1990 Sabbatical-Professional Development Leave
        1990 Lenoir-Rhyne Institutional Grant for Summer Research
        1990 Raymond Morris Bost Distinguished Professor Award
        1986 Purdue University: NEH Institute on "Recent Continental Philosophy"
        1986 AACS/Lineburger Foundation grants for symposium "On Being Human" in Netherlands
        1985 Lenoir-RhyneAlumni Grant for research
        1980 Duquesne University departmental scholarship
        1979 Villanova University—university scholarship
        1976 Sophia University graduating honors

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Scheler’s Critique of Kant’s Ethics, Series in Continental Thought, No. 22 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995).
• P. Blosser, et al. (eds.), Japanese and Western Phenomenology (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993).
• Of Friendship: Philosophic Selections on a Perennial Concern, co-edited with Marshell Carl Bradley (Longwood Academic, 1989; 2nd ed., University Press of America, 1997).
• Seasons of a Priest: A Short Biography of Fr. Ed Sheridan on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of His Ordination (Morganton, NC: Millennium, 2003); translated into Spanish by Laura Doyle as Etapas de un Sacerdote: Padre Ed Sheridan, 40. Anniversario de Ordenación Sacerdotal, Mayo 23, 1963-Mayo 23, 2003 (Hickory, NC: Privately published, 2003).
  

Encyclopedia articles:

• "Max Scheler," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, to appear 2005 )
• "Manfred Frings (1925-     )," Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960 (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2004).
• "Buddhism," Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, and Richard S. Myers (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, to be published 2004).
• "Values," Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, and Richard S. Myers (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, to be published 2004).
• "Ethics," Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, and Richard S. Myers (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, to be published 2004).
• "Max Scheler (1874-1928)," Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen M. Krason, and Richard S. Myers (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, to be published 2004).
• "Scheler’s Ethics," in Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy: A Handbook, ed. John Drummond and Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).
• "Scheler’s Ethics," in The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
  

Articles (philosophy):

• “The ‘Cape Horn’ of Scheler’s Ethics,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (to appear, 2004)
• "Six Questions Concerning Scheler’s Ethics," The Journal of Value Inquiry 33, No. 2 (June 1999), 211-225.
• "Scheler’s Ordo Amoris: Insights and Oversights," in Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie 3 (1998), pp.160-171.
• "Reconnoitering Dooyeweerd’s Theory of Man," Philosophia Reformata 58, No. 3 (1993), 192-209.
• "Is Scheler’s Ethic an Ethic of Virtue?" in Japanese and Western Phenomenology, ed. by P. Blosser, et al. (The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp. 147-159.
• "A Problem in Kant’s Theory of Moral Feeling," Lyceum 3, No. 2 (Fall, 1991), 27-39.
• "Soul and Body in the Philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd," Tydskrif vir christelike wetenskap (South Africa) 27, No. 1 (1991), 57-82.
• "The A Priori In Phenomenology and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism," Philosophy Today 34, No. 3 (Fall 1990), 195-205.
• "Critical Study of Moral Realism and Justification," by Tapio Puolimatka, in Philosophia Reformata 55, No. 2 (1990), 177-183.
• "Moral and Nonmoral Values: A Problem in Scheler’s Ethics," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47, No. 1 (September, 1987), 139-143.
• "Kant and Phenomenology," Philosophy Today XXX, No. 2 (Summer, 1986), 168-173.
• "The Status of Mental Images in Sartre’s Theory of Consciousness," Southern Journal of Philosophy XXIV, No. 2 (1986), 163-172.
• "Scheler’s Alternative to Kant’s Ethics: A Synopsis," Anakainosis (Toronto) VII, No. 4 (Fall, 1985).
• "Tragic Myth and the Malady of Nietzsche’s Europe," Dialogos IV, No. 44 (November, 1984), 149-158.
• "The Question of Being in Recent Japanese Phenomenology," Research in Phenomenology XIV (1984), 281-186
  

Articles (religion & culture):

• “What I Learned from U.S. Catholic Magazine,” This Rock (May/June 2002), 32-37.
• “The Kasper-Ratzinger Debate and the State of the Church,” The New Oxford Review (April 2002), 18-25.
• "God Among the Philosophers," The New Oxford Review 66, No. 9 (October 1999), 39-42.
• "Wherefore Art Thou Liturgical Law?" in Eutopia: A Lay Journal of Catholic Thought 3, No. 4 (May/June 1999), pp. 5-7.
• "Walking the Ecumenical Tightrope," This Rock  9, No. 10 (Oct. 1998), pp. 13-18.
• "Public Performance and Private Morals: The Clinton Presidency," Hickory Daily Record  (Oct. 5, 1998), p. 4 [retitled by publisher: "Europeans can Laugh all They Want to"]
• "Faith and the Facts," The Reformed Journal Vol. 38, No. 8 (August, 1988), 11-13.
• "Sojourners: The Triumph of the Anabaptist Vision," Christian Renewal (January, 1984).
  

Chapters in books:

• "Scheler’s Concept of the Person Against its Kantian Background," Max Scheler's Acting Persons: New Perspectives, edited by Stephen Schneck (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002).
• "Scheler’s Ordo Amoris: Insights and Oversights," in Denken des Ursprungs/Ursprungs des Denkens: Schelers Philosophie und ihre Anfänge in Jena, ed. Christian Bermes, et al. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1998), pp.160-171.
• "Multiculturalism, Toleration, and Commitment in Christian Higher Education," Toleration and Commitment, a Festschrift for Howard Blair, edited by Paul Reasoner (St. Paul, MN: Bethel, 1998).
• "Philosophical and Practical Problems with ‘Sola Scriptura,’" in Not By Scripture Alone, edited by Robert Sungenis (Santa Barbara, CA: Queenship Publishing Co., 1998).
• "Scheler’s Theory of Values Reconsidered" in Phenomenology of Values and Valuing, ed. by James G. Hart and Lester Embree (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997).
  

Reviews (philosophy):

• Review of Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski, ed., Guy Mansini, OSB Review, and James G. Hart (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 2003), in The Thomist (anticipated, Spring, 2005)
• Review of Speaking the Incomprehensible God: Thomas Aquinas on the Interplay of Positive and Negative Theology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America, 2004), in CHOICE Current Review for Academic Libraries (anticipated, Fall, 2004).
• Review of Atheism, Morality, and Meaning, by Michael Martin, in CHOICE Current Review for Academic Libraries (June, 2003).
• Review of After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism, by Fergus Kerr, in CHOICE Current Review for Academic Libraries (March, 2003).
• Review of  Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2003), by Jude P.Dougherty, in CHOICE Current Review for Academic Libraries (Fall, 2003).
• Review of Scheler’s Ethical Personalism: It’s Logic, Development, and Promise, by Peter H. Spader, in CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Fall, 2002).
• Review of Person in the World, by Mary Catherine Baseheart, in The Thomist 63, No. 3 (July, 1999), 490-494.
• Review of Structure and Diversity: Studies in the Phenomenological Philosophy of Max Scheler, by Eugene Kelly, in International Studies in Philosophy (forthcoming)
• Review of The Selfhood of the Human Person, by John F. Crosby (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996), in The Thomist 62, No. 2 (April, 1998), pp. 308-312.
• Review of At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II, by Kenneth L. Schmitz, in The Thomist, 61, No. 1 (January 1997), 142-146.
• Review of The Human Person: Animal and Spirit, by David Braine, in The Thomist 59, No. 2 (April, 1995), 341-345.
• Review of Grace and Law: St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew Prophets, by Heinz W. Cassirer, in Faith and Philosophy 8, No. 3 (July 1991), 402-405.
• Review of Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate, by John W. Cooper, in The Thomist, 55, No. 3 (July, 1991), 522-526.
• Review of Philosophical Questions, edited by Richard L. Purtill, Michael H. Macdonald, and Peter J. Kreeft, Teaching Philosophy (Winter, 1986).
• Review of Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman, Duquesne Law Review XXIV (Fall, 1985).
• Review of The Conflict of the Faculties (Der Streit der Fakultäten) by Immanuel Kant, Westminster Theological Journal XLV, No. 2 (Fall, 1983), 448-451.
  

Reviews (religion & culture):

• Review of John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion, by Frank M. Turner (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), in Amazon.Com Reviews (May 7, 2003).
• Review of Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions, by Robert Benne, and Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions, ed. by Robert E. Sullivan in The New Oxford Review (January 2003), 40-44.
• Review of Epiphany: A Theological Introduction to Catholicism, by Aidan Nichols, O.P., in The New Oxford Review (Jan., 1999), p. 48.
• Review of On Being Catholic, by Thomas Howard, in The New Oxford Review (November 1998), pp. 47-48.
• Review of Someone or Nothing? Nishitani’s "Religion and Nothingness" as a Foundation for Christian-Buddhist Dialogue, by Russell H. Bowers, Jr., in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23, No. 1-2 (Spring 1996), 209-211.
• Review of Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religions, by Frank Schaeffer, in The New Oxford Review (December, 1995), 28-29.
• Review of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by Mark Noll, in The New Oxford Review (April, 1995), 27-28.
• Review of Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate, by John W. Cooper, in Christian Scholar’s Review, XXII, No. 2 (Dec. 1992), 210-213.
• Review of Theological Turning Points: Major Issues in Christian Thought, by Donald K. McKim, in The Covenanter Witness (March 1991), p. 15.
• Review of Calvin and the Duchess, by F. Whitfield Barton, in Covenanter Witness (Sept. 1990), p. 14.
• Review of Grace and Law: St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew Prophets, by Heinz W. Cassirer, in The Covenanter Witness (March, 1990).
• "’Love in Ruins’ Provokes Thought," Review of The Thanatos Syndrome, by Walker Percy, The Lenoir-Rhynean (Feb. 15, 1990).
• Review of God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government—Theonomy, Principled Pluralism, Christian America, National Confessionalism, edited by Gary Scott Smith, The Covenanter Witness (June, 1989), p. 12.
• "The Crisis in Christian Education," a review of Public Knowledge and Christian Education, by Theodore Plantinga, Christian Renewal Vol. 7, No. 6 (Nov. 28, 1988), 10-12.
• Review of The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God by John Frame, Eternity (May 1988),pp. 36-37.
• "Zen Buddhism and Christianity," a review of Zen Way-Jesus Way by Tucker N. Callaway in Christianity Today (Sept. 9, 1977), pp. 55-57.

TRANSLATED PUBLICATIONS

• “Extremism and Tolerance,” translated into Russian by Oleg-Michael Martynov (Fall, 2003).
• “Where Art Thou, Liturgical Law,” translated into Russian by Oleg-Michael Martynov (Fall, 2003).
• “The Kasper-Ratzinger Debate and the State of the Church,” translated into Russian by Oleg-Michael Martynov (Fall, 2003).
• “War and Decline of Moral Reasoning,” translated into Russian by Alexander Konev (Fall, 2003).
  

PRESENTATIONS

• “The Difference between the Moral and Simply Normative,” a presentation made at the meeting of the Max Scheler Society of North America at the annual Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Pasadena, California, March 25-27, 2004.
• ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Just War Tradition,’ a presentation made at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Hickory, NC, on June 8, 2003.
• ‘Justifiable War and Moral Reasoning,’ a presentation at the Lenoir-Rhyne College Theology Colloquium, January 9, 2003.
• "War and the Eclipse of Moral Reasoning," a presentation at the Tenth Annual Aquinas-Luther Conference sponsored by the Center for Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina, October 24-26, 2002. 
• "Six Questions Revisited: A Reply to Spader," a paper presented at the meeting of the Max Scheler Society in conjunction with the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, NM, April 6-9, 2000.
• "Is Art a Universal Language," a presentation in a panel discussion, as part of the series on "A Visual Dialogue Through the Americas," sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne College, the Hickory Museum of Art and the Organization of American States, at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Jan. 23, 1999.
• "Diversity: What does it mean to be an American?" a paper presented at January, 19, 1999 meeting of the free study group of the Building Community from Diversity Project, Ridgeview Library, Hickory, NC, a series running January 19-April 27, 1999.
• "Buddhism and Phenomenology: An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communication," a paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 28, 1997.
• "Buddhism and Phenomenology: A Working Paper Towards an Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communication," a paper presented at the 5^th International Symposium on Japanese/American Phenomenology, at Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan, September 18-21, 1996.
• "Scheler’s Ordo Amoris: Insights and Oversights," presentation at the Third International Symposium of the Max Scheler Gesellschaft, in Jena, Germany, May 22-24, 1997.
• With Carl Hand and Bennett Judkins, "Blinded by the Light: Religiously Affiliated Colleges and Doctoral Production," a paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, Virginia, April 13, 1996.
• "Closing Summary," 2nd annual Aquinas-Luther Conference, Nov. 2-4, 1994, sponsored by the Center for Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina.
• "Some Problems in Scheler’s Theory of Values," a presentation at the joint Japanese/American Phenomenology Conference, University of Tokyo, October 1-4, 1992.
• "Reconnoitering Heidegger’s Critique of Value Theory," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Memphis, Oct. 17-19, 1991.
• "The Viability of Scheler’s Ethics in Light of Heidegger’s Implicit Critique of Value Theory," a paper delivered at the Japanese/American Phenomenology Conference held in conjunction with the 23^rd annual meeting of the Husserl Circle at Seattle University, June 24-30, 1991.
• "Values as Real Presences: A Critique of Heidegger’s Deconstruction of Value Theory," a presentation for the Faculty Colloquium Series at Lenoir-Rhyne College on March 19, 1991.
• "A Problem in Kant’s Theory of Moral Feeling," a paper delivered at the annual conference of the North Carolina Philosophical Society at Queen’s College, Charlotte, NC, on Feb. 23, 1991.
• "Cooper on Biblical Anthropology and ‘Holistic Dualism,’" a paper delivered at the annual Wheaton Philosophy Conference in Chicago, 20-22 September 1990.
• "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air," commencement address delivered on August 10, 1990, at the summer graduation ceremonies of Lenoir-Rhyne College.
• "The A Priori in Phenomenology and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism," a paper presented at a conference on "Japanese and Western Phenomenology" sponsored by the Center forAdvanced Research in Phenomenology and the Japanese Society for Phenomenology" in Osaka, Japan, 24-27 October 1989.
• "Some Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and Values," a paper accepted for presentation at Symposium VIII on artificial intelligence at Catawba College, Salisbury, NC, February 23-24, 1989.
• "Problem Ethical Situations in the Medical Profession," a presentation made to the members of the North Carolina Nurses’ Association (District 34) at the meeting of the Area Health Education Consortium at Catawba Memorial Hospital, Conover, NC, on February 9, 1988.
• "The Relation of Divine Commands to Human Insight," a paper presented at the Society for Christian Philosophers meeting in Spartanburg, SC, April 16, 1988.
• "Is Scheler’s Ethics an Ethics of Virtue?" a paper presented at the Long Island Philosophical Society at SUNY-Stonybrook, April 23, 1988.
• "Reconnoitering Dooyeweerd’s Theory of Man," a paper delivered at the Third International Symposium of the Stichting voor Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte ("On Being Human"), Zeist, The Netherlands, 11-15 August 1986.
• "Merleau-Ponty’s View of Language in Prose of the World, a presentation at Purdue University NEH Institute, 22 June-1 August, 1986.
• "Philosophy of Education in Japan," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the local chapter of Mu Sigma Epsilon Academic Fraternity, Lenoir-Rhyne College, 25 November 1985.
• "Philosophy and Social Psychology of Japanese Corporate Consciousness," a paper delivered in the public Saturday Seminar II series, Lenoir-Rhyne College, 19 Oct. 1985.
• "Edmund Husserl and Kitaro Nishida: The Phenomenological Connection," a paper delivered at the Second International Symposium of the Stichting voor Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte, Zeist, The Netherlands, 26 August 1982.
• "Rational Judgment in Husserl’s Ideen I, a paper delivered at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 16 Feb. 1982.
  

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Professional Organizations and Committees

• Chaired a panel on “Kant’s Theoretical and Practical Philosophy” at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 1-3, 2002.
• Served as moderator for a panel discussion at a conference on Christian Personalism hosted by the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, Nov. 10-11, 2000. 
• Chaired panel on "Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: Concepts of Experience," for the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, at the meetings of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 28, 1998.
  

Consultation:

• Served as blind reviewer for Northwestern University Press (1995), Kluwer Academic Publishers(1998), Fordham University Press (2000).
• Served as translation consultant to Eija-Riitta Korhola, member of European Parliament in Brussells, Belgium, Fall, 1999.
  

Institutional Service:

• 1992-1995 Edited and contributed to ‘Last Things’ faculty column in The Lenoir-Rhynean
• 1991-1993 Great Books Instructor in Honors Program
  

Senior Thesis Director:

• 1984-1985 Elizabeth McGaughey (Kierkegaard's Concept of Irony)
• 1985-1986 Adam Draper (Harold Berman’s Philosophy of Law)
• 1993-1994 Ronald Church (Alvin Plantinga’s Philosophy of Religion)
• 1994-1995 Deria Erdmann (St. Augustine’s Philosophical Psychology)
• 2001-2002 Caron Coffey (St. Augustine's Philosophy)
• 2001-2002 Sarah Jane Milheim (C.S. Lewis's Theology)
• 2003-2004 Leslie D. Hutchens (Max Weber and Nietzsche's Philosophy)

Independent Tutorials:

• 2004 (Summer) Leslie D. Hutchens, Alasdair MacIntyre
• 2000 (Summer) Benjamin Blosser, Philosophical Theology
• 1999-2000 Edgar Foster, Philosophy of History
• 1984-1985 Elizabeth McGaughey, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
• 1986-1987 Mary Houck, Roger Johnson’s Roots of Demythologizing
• 1989-1990 Valerie Poust, History of Modern Philosophy
• 1992-1993 Roger Webb, Comparative Religions
  

Committees:

• 1999- Board of Trustees’ Committee on Promotion and Development.
• 1990-1992 Graduate Subcommittee of the Educational Program Committee for SACS Self-Study
• 1991-1997 Campus Computing Council
• 1991-1992 Multicultural Team
• 1990-1992 Executive Committee
• 1989-1991 Academic Computer Advisory Committee
• 1989-1991 Ad Hoc Committee on Library LCC System
  

COURSES TAUGHT

       Philosophy:

Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics
Existentialism and Phenomenology
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Aesthetics
Philosophy of Religion
Topics in Non-Western Religions and Philosophies
History and Philosophy of Law
Senior Seminar in Herman Dooyeweerd’s philosophy
Senior Seminar in Hans Reiner’s ethical theory
Senior Seminar in Postmodernism
Seminar in Epistemology and Metaphysics
Seminar in Alasdair MacIntyre's philosophy

       History:

Western Heritage (1400-present)

       Religion:

The Christian Faith (Biblical & theological foundations)
The Christian Perspective (cultural implications)
Seminar in the hermeneutics of John Henry Cardinal Newman
Seminar in the Philosophical Background of Biblical Higher Criticism
Non-Western Religions 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

             Born, Chengdu, China (US citizen)
             Raised, Japan (20 years)
          Studied, US (nine years), Switzerland (one year), France (one month).
            Foreign languages:
                      Fluent: Japanese
                      Reading knowledge: German, French, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Latin

MENTORS & REFERENCES:

• Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University
• John Caputo, Villanova University
• Manfred S. Frings, DePaul University (emeritus)
• Thomas Seebohm, Johannes-Guttenburg Univ., Mainz
• Calvin Schrag, Purdue University
• Wilfrid Desan, Georgetown University (emeritus)
• Ronald Polansky, Duquesne University
• John Sallis, Vanderbilt University

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