Stephen P. Schwartz

 

                  Department of Philosophy and Religion

                                                                  Ithaca College

 

EMAIL ADDRESS:

 

    

 

            E-mail:  sps.schwartz@gmail.com

                        sschwart@ithaca.edu

 

 

DEGREES:

    

     Ph.D., 1971, Cornell University, Intentional Action under the supervision of Professor Keith Donnellan.

 

            M.A., 1968, Cornell University.

 

            B.A., 1966, Reed College.

 

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

Professor Emeritus, Ithaca College, February, 2009.

 

     Melvin Hill Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Fall 2006

 

     Professor, Ithaca College, 1988-2005.  Retired May 2005.

           

            Associate Professor, Ithaca College, 1978-1988.

 

            Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, 1971-1978.

 

            Instructor, Cornell University, 1971.

 

            Instructor, Tompkins-Cortland Community College, 1970.

 

            Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 1967-1968.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

   Books:

 

Fundamentals of Reasoning, Prentice-Hall, 1993.  Republished as Understanding Fundamentals of Reasoning, Horizon Publishing Co. 2005.

 

            Edited Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds, Cornell University Press, 1977, and con­tributed the introduc­tion, pp. 13-41.

 

 

   Articles:

 

     “The Essence of Essence,” forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

 

     “Soritic Thinking, Vagueness, and Weakness of Will,” New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 27, Issue 1, April, 2009, pp. 18-31.

 

     “Reason’s No Quitter:  Why Weakness of Will Isn’t the Problem,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, Issue 36 (London, UK, 4th Quarter, 2006 ), pp. 27-30.

 

“Reference: General Terms and Mass Terms,” invited contribution to Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, ed. by Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley, Blackwell Publishing, (2006). 

 

     “Kinds, General Terms, and Rigidity:  A Reply to LaPorte,” Philosophical Studies (109), 2002, pp. 265-277.

 

     “Reply to Objections to ‘Open Debate: Why It is Impossible to be Moral,’“ The Philosophers’Magazine (London, UK; Autumn 2000), pp. 23-26.

 

“Discussion of ‘Causal Inference without Counterfactuals’ by A.P. Dawid,” with George Casella, Journal of the American Statistical Association, v 95 (June         2000), published with  Dawid’s article and other comments, pp. 407-449.

 

Open Debate: Why It is Impossible to be Moral,” The Philosophers’ Magazine (London, UK; Spring 2000), pp. 23-26.  Reprinted in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 02, Issue 07.

 

“Why it is Impossible to be Moral,” American Philosophical Quarterly (October 1999), pp. 351-359.

 

“Nietzsche’s Doctrine of the Will to Power,” Beiträge zur Nietzsche Forschung, Traude    Junghans Verlag, 1998.  Also published in German, 1999.

 

            “The Status of Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will to Power in the Light of Contemporary Philosophy of Science,” International Studies in Philosophy, XXV/2 (1993), pp. 85-92.

    

     “Intuitionism and Vagueness,” with William Throop, Erkenntnis 34 (1991), pp. 347-356.

           

            “Modern Theories of Natural Kinds” and “Hilary Putnam,” articles in The Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Philosophia Verlag, (1991).

 

            “Intuitionism versus Degress of Truth,” Analysis 50 (1990), pp. 43-48.

 

            “Vagueness and Incoherence:  A Reply to Burns,” Synthese 80 (1989), pp. 395-406.

 

            “Intuitionism and Sorites,” Analysis 47 (1987), pp. 179-183.

 

            “Salmon on Reference and Essentialism,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1984), pp. 288-291.

 

            “Reply to Kornblith and Nelson,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 21 (1983), pp. 475-479.

 

     “Natural Kinds,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (1981), pp. 310-311.

 

            “Formal Semantics and Natural Kind Terms,” Philosophical Studies 38 (1980), pp. 189-198.

 

            “Natural Kinds and Nominal Kinds,” Mind 89 (1980), pp. 182-195.

 

            “Natural Kind Terms,” Cognition (September 1979), pp. 301-315.

 

            “Putnam on Artifacts,” The Philosophical Review (October 1979), pp. 566-574.  Reprinted in The Twin Earth Chronicles, ed. Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldbrg, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.

 

Reviews:

 

     “Ontology and Mental Causation,” review of Real Natures and Familiar Objects by Crawford L. Elder, American Journal of Psychology (Spring 2006), pp.139-144.

    

     Review of Beyond Formalism:  Naming and Necessity for Human Beings by Jay F. Rosenberg, Philosophical Review (January 1996), pp.82-84.

           

            Review of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology by Alistair Moles, Journal of the History of Philosophy (April 1993), pp. 301-302.

 

     Review of Identity and Discrimination by Timothy Williamson, The Philosophical Review, (October 1992). pp. 888-890.

 

            Review of What is Existence by C.J.F. Williams, International Studies in Philosophy (1984), pp. 112-114.

 

            Review of Acts and Other Events by Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Philosophical Review      (January 1979), pp. 100-105.

 

            Review of Practical Reason edited by Stephan Korner, The Philosophical Review (April   1976), pp. 236-241.

 

            Review of Enigmas of Agency by Irving Thalberg, The Philosophical Review (January 1975), pp. 125-129.

 

            Review of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by H.H. Price, The Philosophical Review   (April 1974), pp. 283-286.

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

     National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, 1996, “The Metaphysics of    Mind,” led by Professor John Heil (Davidson College), Cornell University.

 

            National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, 1991, “Nietzsche’s Philosophical Thought and its Interpretation,” led by Professor Richard Schacht, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

            National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, 1986, “Philosophical Problems about Truth and Reality,” led by Professor Hilary Putnam, Harvard University.

 

            National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, 1979, “The Formal Characterization of Natural Languages,” led by Professor Richard Grandy, University of North Carolina,

                         Chapel Hill.

           

            “The Problem of Strength of Will,” public lecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, November, 2006.

 

“Why it is Impossible to be Moral,” delivered as invited address to the Institute for Post-Analytic Philosophy, University of Southampton (UK) 1998; to the spring, 1999 meeting of the New York State Philosophical Association, Skaneateles; and as an address at Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vt., 1999.  Also presented as invited addresses at Hamilton College and Ithaca College fall 2000.

 

                       

“The Status of Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will to Power in the Light of Contemporary Philosophy of Science,” delivered at The North American Nietzsche Society meeting in

conjunction with the American Philosophical Association (Central Division) meetings, Louisville, 1992 and at the New York State Philosophical Association meeting, Skaneateles, 1992.

    

“Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche on the Master/Slave Relation,” colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.

                       

“The Semantics of General Nouns,” invited address to the Philosophy Faculty Seminar, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 1983.

 

“Natural Kind Terms,” invited address to the participants, Sloan Conference on Conceptual Change, MIT, Boston, 1978.

 

            Gave two guest seminars on the theory of reference, York University, Toronto, 1978.

 

Respondent to “Wittgenstein and Knowledge,” New York State Philosophical Association, Cazenovia, 1973.

 

 “Maximizing and Satisficing,” address to the Cornell University Philosophy Discussion Club, Ithaca, 1971.

 

 

AWARDS:

 

     I was the first Ithaca faculty member chosen for a new program supporting Ithaca faculty at the Ithaca College London Center for one semester.  I lived in London with my family          and worked informally at the Ithaca College London Center in South Kensington from July, 1998 until January, 1999.

 

     Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, Summer Fellowship, 1994

 

            Ithaca College Dana Research Fellowship, 1989-1990.

 

            Cornell University Fellowship, 1968-1970.

 

            Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966-1967.