Address:
421 N. 38th Ave
Omaha, NE 68131 U.S.A.
(402) 553-4989
Marital Status:
Married, three children
Education:
Brother Rice High School, Chicago, IL, 1962-1966
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 1966-1970
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 1970-1979
J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, 1975-1976
Degrees earned:
Honors Program B.S. in physics and mathematics from Marquette University, 1970
Ph.D. in philosophy of science from St. Louis University, 1979
Dissertation:
"Marx's Theory of Wissenschaft," directed by Dr. James Collins
Special Programs:
Goethe Institute, Blaubeuren, West Germany, Summer 1975
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on contemporary German social philosophy, Boston University, 1984, directed by Thomas McCarthy
NEH Summer Institute (co-sponsored by the Hume Society) on David Hume and the Enlightenment, Dartmouth College, 1990, directed by D.F. Norton and Wade Robison
Professional Employment:
St. Louis University, Teaching Assistant, 1971-1975
Villanova University, Instructor, 1978-1979
Creighton University, Department of Philosophy, Assistant Professor, 1979-1985; Associate Professor, 1985-1995, Department Chair, 1994-Professor, 1995-
Fellowships, Grants, Honors:
Honorary Scholarship, Marquette University, 1966-1970
University Fellowship and Assistantship, St. Louis University, 1970-1975
Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst Fellowship (German Fulbright) to study in Frankfurt and at the Goethe Institute, 1975-1976
"Short Term Research Grant" from the Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst, Frankfurt, for research on Marx's theory of scientific knowledge, Summer 1980
Alpha Sigma Nu, 1970
Phi Sigma Tau, 1970
Phi Beta Kappa, 1975
Professional Organizations:
American Catholic Philosophical Association
The Hume Society
Radical Philosophy Association
Courses Taught:
Freshman Seminar (FRS 111)
Effective Reasoning (PHL 111)
Philosophy of Human Existence (PHL 205)
Critical and Historical Introduction to Philosophy (PHL 107)
Ethics (PHL 251)
Social and Political Philosophy (PHL 258)
Philosophy of Religious Experience (PHL 243)
Philosophy of Science (PHL 231)
God and Persons: Philosophical Reflections (PHL 320)
Science, Technology, and Values (PHL 355)
History of Modern Philosophy (PHL 363/373)
History of 19th-century Philosophy (PHL 364/374)
Literature, Philosophy, and Economics: Critical Representations of Commercial Life (PHL 435)
Philosophy and Commercial Societies (PHL 450)
Marxism (PHL 461, PHL/PLS 459)
Themes in Contemporary Philosophy: Critical Theory, Hermeneutics, Structuralism, Post-structuralism (PHL 401)
Senior Seminar for Majors (PHL 491/2)
Directed Independent Readings (on Critical Theory) (PHL 493)
Directed Independent Readings (on modern philosophy) (PHL 493)
Directed Independent Readings (on postmodernism) (PHL 495)
Honors Philosophy-Theology Seminar (HRS 241)
Honors Natural Science Seminar (HRS 321)
Honors Seminar on Moral Theory (HRS 341)
The Culture of Money (MLS 654)
Books and Special Journal Issues:
Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988, paperback, 1990)
Co-editor (with David Gross and Paul Piccone) of a special issue of Telos (Religion and Politics), Telos, No. 58 (Winter 1983-1984)
Works in progress:
The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form
False Moves: Basic Problems with Philosophy (with Jeanne Schuler)
The Commercial Mind of the British Empiricists: Philosophy and Political Economy in Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
Articles, Review Articles, and Notes:
"Introduction to Krahl" and co-translator (with Ruth Heydebrand) of "Adorno's Political Contradiction" by Hans Juergen Krahl, Telos, Number 21 (Fall 1974),
pp. 162-167
"Reply to [Jean] Cohen" (with Mary Ellen Batiuk and Patricia Fleming), Telos, Number 24 (Summer 1975), pp. 158-163
"Enlightenment Roots of Habermas' Critique of Marx," The Modern Schoolman, Volume LVII (November 1979), pp. 1-24
"The Frankfurt School Critique of Technology," in Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 5, pp. 223-248
"James Collins: The Man, the Scholar, the Teacher" (with Daniel Dahlstrom), in History of Philosophy in the Making, ed. by Linus Thro, S.J. (Washington, D.C.:
University Press of America, 1982), pp. 1-15
"Hegel as the Logician of Capital," Hegel-Jahrbuch 1983, edited by Wilhelm R. Beyer (Rome: Jouvence, 1983), pp. 187-193
"Marx Minus Hegel: Further Discussion of [Derek] Sayer," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 13, Number 4 (December 1983), pp. 487-499
"Introduction" (with David Gross and Paul Piccone) to a special issue of Telos on religion, Telos, Number 58 (Winter 1983-1984), pp. 2-6
Contribution to the "Symposium on Religion," Telos, Number 58 (Winter 1983-1984), pp. 140-141
"Money, Wealth, and Berkeley's Doctrine of Signs: a Reply to Patrick Kelly," Hermathena, Winter 1985, pp. 152-156. This also appears in George Berkeley:
Essays and Replies, ed. by David Berman (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1986), pp. 152-156.
"Western Marxism's Dialectic of Defeat" (with Jeanne Schuler), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 16, Number 3 (September 1986), pp. 375-382
"Post-Marxism in a French Context" (with Jeanne Schuler), History of European Ideas, Volume 9, Number 3 (1988), pp. 321-334
"Karl Marx as a Historical Materialist Historian of Political Economy," History of Political Economy, Vol. 20, Number 1 (Spring 1988), pp. 95-105; reprinted in Karl Marx (1818-1883), edited by Mark Blaug (Hants, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1991), pp. 246-256, and to be reprinted in a reference volume edited by John C. Wood and published by Routledge
"Must a Historicist be a Relativist," a review essay on Robert D'Amico's Historicism and Relativism, Telos, Number 80 (Summer 1989), pp. 182-192
"Historical Materialism Revisited: Habermas's Theory of History" (with Jeanne Schuler), in Terrorism, Justice and Social Values, edited by Creighton Peden and Yeager Hudson (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), pp. 39-52
"Conspicuous Consumption and the Falling Rate of Enjoyment" (with Jeanne Schuler), New Oxford Review, January-February 1990, pp. 9-12
"The Necessity of Money: How Hegel Helped Marx to Surpass Ricardo's Theory of Value," in Marx's Method in "Capital," edited by Fred Moseley (Humanities Press: Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1993)
"Educating the Passions: Reconsidering David Hume's Optimistic Appraisal of Commerce" (co-authored by Jeanne A. Schuler), in History of European Ideas, Volume 17, Number 5 (1993), pp. 589-597
"Redoubled Empiricism: The Place of Social Form and Formal Causality in Marxian Theory," in New Investigations of Marx's Method, edited by Fred Moseley and Martha Campbell (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1997)
"Beyond the 'Commerce and Industry' Picture of Capital," in The Circulation of Capital, edited by Chris Arthur and Geert Reuten (London: Macmillan, 1998)
"Time's Carcass or the News from Nowhen," The Modern Schoolman, LXXVI (January/March), 1999, pp. 163-168
"Recognizing Captial: Some Barriers to Public Discourse about Capital" (with Jeanne Schuler, in Race Class, and National Identity, edited by Andrew Light and Mecke Nagel (Amhert, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2000)
"Marx's 'Truly Social' Labor Theory of Value: Part I, Abstract Labor in Marxian Value Theory," Historical Materialism, No. 6 Summer 2000, pp. 27-65 (appeared in 2001) Note: Geert Reuten's reply to this article, "The Interconnection of Systematic Dialectics and Historical Materialism," was published in Historical Materialism, No. 7, Winter 2000, pp. 137-165
"Marx's 'Truly Social' Labor Theory of Value: Part II, How is Labour that Is Under the Sway of Capital Actually Abstract?," Historical Materialism, No. 7, Winter 2000, pp. 99-136
"Enlightenment Roots of Habermas' Critique of Marx," anthologized in Marx, edited by Scott Meikle (Ashgate: 2000) (appeared in 2001)
"The Illusion of the Economic: The Trinity Formula and the 'religion of everyday life'," in The Culmination of Capital: Essays on Volume III of Marx's "Capital," edited by Martha Campbell and Geert Reuten (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, forthcoming in 2002), pp. 246-272
"Comments on 'The Four Drafts of Capital: Towards a new interpretation of the dialectical thought of Marx' by Enrique Dussel and 'Introduction to Dussel' by Fred Moseley, forthcoming in Rethinking Marxism.
"Reply to Reuten," Historical Materialism, No. 10, pp. 155-176, forthcoming
"Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy," in New Dialectics and Political Economy, edited by Rob Albritton, forthcoming from Palgrave
Reviews:
Review of H.S. Harris, Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight, Telos, Number 24 (Summer 1975), pp. 183-187
Book note (with Graham Chisholm) on Gramsci and Marxist Theory, ed. by Chantal Mouffe, Journal of Politics, Vol. 43 (August 1981), p. 949
Short review of John McMurtry, The Structure of Marx's World-View, The Review of Metaphysics (June 1980), pp. 791-792
Review
of Karen Iverson Vaughn, John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXI,
Number 1 (January 1983), pp.
103-105
Review of Arthur F. McGovern, S.J., Marxism: An American Christian Perspective, Telos, Number 58 (Winter 1983-1984), pp. 236-240
Review (with Jeanne A. Schuler) of Jean A. Cohen, Class and Civil Society, Review of Politics, January 1985, pp. 142-146
Review (with Jeanne A. Schuler) of Habermas: Critical Debates (ed. by David Held and John Thompson), Social Forces, Volume 65, Number 3 (March 1987), pp. 892-894
Review (with Jeanne A. Schuler) of Hegel on Economics and Freedom, ed. by William Maker, The Review of Metaphysics, September l988, pp. 152-3
Review of The Violence of Abstractions by Derek Sayer, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 20, Number 1 (March 1990), pp. 127-131
Review of George E. McCarthy, Marx' Critique of Science and Positivism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 21, Number 2 (June 1991), pp. 293-297
Review of Gavin Kitching, Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Praxis, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume XXIX, Number 2 (April 1991), pp. 322-324
Review of Catherine Reigger Harris, Karl Marx: Socialism as Secular Theology, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume XXIX, Number 4 (October 1991), pp. 689-690
Review of Tony Smith, The Logic of Marx's "Capital," in Radical Philosophy Review of Books, 1991
Review of Maurice Finocchiaro, Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume XXX, Number 1 (January 1992), pp. 151-152
Review of Alien Politics: Marxist State Theory Retrieved, by Paul Thomas, Theory and Society, Volume 25/5 (October 1996), pp. 739-744