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MICHAEL BAUR Associate Professor Philosophy Department Phone: (718) 817-3295 E-mail: “mbaur@fordham.edu” DATE OF BIRTH: CITIZENSHIP: American LANGUAGES: Fluent in English and German; basic reading
knowledge of French and Latin EDUCATION: 1985 B.A., summa cum laude Double Major:
Philosophy and Theology One year (1983-84)
spent at the University of Durham, England 1986 M.A., Philosophy, 1991 Ph.D., Philosophy, Dissertation title: “Hegel
and Heidegger as Transcendental Philosophers” Dissertation
directors: Graeme Nicholson, Rebecca Comay, Kenneth
Schmitz One year of
dissertation research (1988-89) conducted at the 1995-98 J.D., cum laude, June 1998, AREAS OF RESEARCH: Kant and German Idealism,
19th Century Continental Thought, Philosophy of Law MAJOR AWARDS: 1985
“Outstanding Scholar Award,” first in class of 701
students 1988-89
Fulbright Full Graduate Scholarship, for one year of research at the
University of 1995-98 Dean’s Scholarship, from the
Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships 1997-98 Distinction in Teaching Award, for
Teaching in the Core Curriculum, PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: 1991-1997 Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Catholic 1997-98 Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum, 1998-2002 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, since
2002 Associate Professor of
Philosophy, since
2003 Adjunct Professor of Law, PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND
APPOINTMENTS: 1992-93,
& 1997-2006 National Secretary, American
Catholic Philosophical Association 1994-present National
Secretary, Hegel Society of America 1996-1998 Visiting
Scholar, Cabot House, Harvard-Radcliffe, 1996-present Associate Editor,
The Owl of Minerva, Journal of the
Hegel Society of America 2001-2005 Faculty-in-Residence
(with wife Christine), Queen’s 2003-present Director, Natural
Law Colloquium, (www.lawandphilosophy.org) 2003-present Associate
Director, Center for Ethics Education, (www.fordhamethics.org) 2006-present Series Editor,
“Cambridge Hegel Translations,” Cambridge University Press PUBLICATIONS: Books (Editor or
Co-editor) Editor,
The Importance of Truth: Proceedings of
the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C.:
American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1994) Co-editor
(with John Russon), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour
of H.S. Harris (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997) Editor,
Virtues and Virtue Theories:
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
(Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1998) Editor,
Texts and Their Interpretation:
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York:
American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999) Co-editor
(with Daniel O. Dahlstrom), The Emergence of German Idealism (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1999) Editor,
Insight and Inference: Proceedings of
the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Editor,
Philosophical Theology: Proceedings of
the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Editor,
Person, Soul, and Immortality:
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Editor,
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason:
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Editor,
Philosophy and Intercultural
Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
( Editor,
Reckoning with the Tradition: Proceedings
of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Editor,
Social Justice – Its Theory and
Practice: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
( Co-editor,
The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You
Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk, edited by
Michael Baur and Steven Baur
( Forthcoming Books (Editor
or Co-editor) Editor,
Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind:
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ( Co-editor,
The Blackwell Companion to Hegel,
edited by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate ( Books (Translator) German-to-English
translation of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right (334
pages), edited
by Frederick Neuhouser ( Articles and Chapters in
Books “Ethics,
Rationality, Dialectic, and Community,” The
“Questions
Philosophers Ask,” Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of
Philosophy 6 (1987), pp. 21-35. “A
Conversation with Hans-Georg Gadamer,”
conducted and translated by Michael Baur, Method: Journal of Lonergan
Studies 8 (1990),
pp. 1-13. “A
Contribution to the Gadamer-Lonergan Discussion,” Method: Journal of Lonergan
Studies 8 (1990), pp. 14-23. “On
the Aim of Scientific Theories in Relating to the World: A Defence of the Semantic Account,” Dialogue 29 (1991), pp. 323-333. “Hegel
and the Overcoming of the Understanding,” The
Owl of Minerva 22 (1991), pp. 141-158.
Reprinted in Hegel. Volume II:
The Philosophy of Hegel, edited by David Lamb (Aldershot,
UK: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 315-332. Preface
to and translation of Martin Heidegger’s “Phenomenological Interpretations
with Respect to Aristotle,” Man and
World 25 (1992), pp. 355-393. “Hegel
and Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and Historicity,” Reason in History: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, edited by Thérèse-Anne Druart (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical
Association, 1995), pp. 125-134. “Adorno and Heidegger on Art in the Modern World,” Philosophy Today 40 (1996), pp.
357-366. “Heidegger
and Aquinas on the Self as Substance,” American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1996), pp. 317-337. Reprinted in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, edited by Roman T. Ciapolo (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain
Association, 1997), pp. 38-57. “Innocent
Owners and Guilty Property,” Harvard
Journal of Law and Public Policy 20 (1996), pp. 279-292. “Winckelmann
and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks,” in Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour
of H.S. Harris, edited by Michael Baur and John
Russon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1997), pp. 93-110. “Sublating Kant and the Old Metaphysics: A Reading of the
Transition from Being to Essence in Hegel’s Logic,” The Owl of Minerva
29 (1998), pp. 139-164. “Die
Einleitung zu ‘Sein und Zeit’ und die Frage nach der
phänomenologischen Methode:
Versuch einer Erklärung,” Perspektiven der Philosophie, Bd. 24
(1998), pp. 225-248. “The
Role of Skepticism in the Emergence of German Idealism,” in The Emergence of German Idealism,
edited by Michael Baur and Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of
America Press, 1999), pp. 63-91. “Kant’s
Moral Proof: Defense and Implications,” Philosophical
Theology: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
( “Self-measure
and Self-moderation in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre,” in New Studies in Fichte’s
Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre,
edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore ( “Natural Law and the Legislation of Virtue: Historicity, Positivity, and Circularity,” in Vera Lex: Journal of the International
Natural Law Society 2 (2001), pp. 51-70. “Reversing
Rawls: Criteriology, Contractualism,
and the Kantian Primacy of the Practical,” in Philosophy and Social Criticism 28:3 (May 2002), pp. 251-296. “Kant,
Lonergan, and Fichte on
the Critique of Immediacy and the Epistemology of Constraint in Human
Knowing,” in International
Philosophical Quarterly. 43:1 (2003), pp. 91-112. “Newman
on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences,” in Philosophy and Intercultural
Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association,
edited by Michael Baur ( “On
Actualizing Public Reason,” Fordham Law
Review 72:5 (April 2004), pp.2153-2175. “Idealism” in Volume
Three of New Dictionary of
the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz ( “What
Is Distinctive About Terrorism, and What Are the Philosophical Implications?,” in Philosophy
9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism, edited by Timothy Shanahan ( “In
Defense of Finnis on Natural Law Legal Theory,” in Vera Lex:
Journal of the International Natural Law Society 6: 1-2 (Winter 2005),
pp. 35-55. “We
All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited
Selves in Memento,” in Movies and the Meaning of Life:
Philosophers Take On Hollywood, edited by Kimberly Blessing and Paul Tudico ( “Incommensurable
Goods, Alternative Possibilities, and the Self-Refutation of the
Self-Refutation of Determinism,” in American
Journal of Jurisprudence 50 (2005), pp. 165-171. “Fichte’s Impossible Contract,” in Rights, Bodies, Recognition: New Essays on Fichte’s
Foundations of Natural Right, edited by Tom Rockmore
and Daniel Breazeale ( “‘And
the Time Will Come When You See We’re All One: The Beatles and Idealistic
Monism,” in The Beatles and Philosophy:
Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk,
edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur ( “‘American
Pie’ and the Self-critique of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” in Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, edited by
William Irwin and Jorge J.E. Gracia ( “Systematically
Unsystematic Violence: On the Definition and Moral Status of Terrorism,” in The Reason of Terror: Philosophical
Responses to Terrorism, edited by Kem Crimmins and Herbert De Vriese
( Forthcoming Articles or
Chapters in Books “The
Development of German Idealism from Kant to Hegel,” in The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, edited by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate ( Book Reviews Review
of Kinds of Being by E.J. Lowe, in The Review of Metaphysics 46 (1992),
pp. 166-168. Review
of Radical Realism by Edward Pols, in The Review
of Metaphysics 47 (1993), pp. 379-380. Review
of Recognition: Fichte
and Hegel on the Other by Robert Williams, in The Review of Metaphysics 47 (1994), pp. 849-851. Review
of The End of History and the Last Man by
Francis Fukuyama, in The Review of
Metaphysics 48 (1994), pp. 135-137. Review
of The Metaphysics of Being of St.
Thomas Aquinas in a Historical Perspective by Leo J. Elders, in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
69 (Winter 1995), pp. 101-103. Review
of Feminism Under Fire by Ellen R.
Klein, The Review of Metaphysics 50
(1996), pp. 164-165. Review
of Hegel, Literature, and the Problem
of Agency by Allen Speight, in Journal
of the History of Philosophy 41 (2003), pp. 134-135. Review
of Problems from Kant by James Van
Cleve, in International Philosophical
Quarterly 43:1 (2003), pp. 124-126. Non-academic Articles “Oedipus,
Achilles and O.J. ¾ Lessons from Antiquity
for Our Time,” Signed Notes “Hegel
at the APA,” in The Owl of Minerva
24 (1993), p. 254. “Hegel
at the APA,” in The Owl of Minerva
26 (1995), pp. 233-234. “Meeting
of the North American Fichte Society,” in The Owl of Minerva 27 (1995), p. 115. PRESENTATIONS AT
CONFERENCES AND LEARNED SOCIETIES: “Defining
Philosophy” Paper
delivered at the First Canadian Graduate Students’ Conference in Philosophy, “Hegel’s
Critique of Scientific Realism” Invited
paper presented at the Department of Philosophy, “Lonergan and Gadamer on
Theology” Invited
paper delivered at the Trinity College Divinity Colloquium, “Adorno and Heidegger on the Role of Art in the Modern
World” Paper
delivered at the Fourth Annual Conference on Strategies of Critique, “A
Copernican Revolution for the Twentieth Century and Beyond?” Paper
delivered at the Second Canadian Conference on the Foundations and
Applications of General Science Theory, Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute, “Heidegger
and Aquinas on the Self as Substance” Paper
delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Maritain
Association, “Hegel
and Aquinas on Self-knowledge and Historicity” Paper
delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, “The
Skeptical Turn on the Way to German Idealism” Paper
presented as part of the “Franklin J. Matchette
Foundation Lecture Series” at the “Political
Implications of Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being” Invited
paper presented to the Graduate Students’ Philosophy Club, “Heidegger’s
Critique of Liberalism: Existential Freedom versus Liberal Freedom” Invited
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association, “Self-measure
and Self-limitation in Fichte’s Wissenschafslehre of 1794” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Fichte
Society, “Is
There a Moral Basis to the Law?” Invited
paper presented at the Cabot House Forum, Cabot House, “Dualism
and Idealism: Kant and Fichte and Beyond” Invited
paper presented at “The Foundations of Rights: From Rawls to German Idealism” Invited
paper presented at the University of Dallas, TX, “The
Dialectic of the Future, the Future of the Dialectic: Goldmann
on Kant’s First Critique” Paper
presented at the “Recent Continental Thought and Early Modern Philosophy”
Conference, “Kant’s
Moral Proof: Defense and Implications” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, “Lonergan and Radical Kantianism” Paper
presented at the West Coast Methods Institute Conference, on “Re-turning to
the Subject,” “Fichte’s Impossible Contract” Paper
presented at the North American Fichte Society
Conference, UC San Diego, “The
Necessity of Embodiment in Kant’s Critique
of Pure Reason” Paper
presented at the “Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture” Conference, SUNY Binghamton,
“Force
and Idealism from Kant to Hegel” Paper
presented at “Force and Understanding” Conference, Bishop’s University, “From
Kant to Fichte on the Grounds of Normative Social
Theory” Paper
presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association (Hegel Society group session), Response
to Presentation by Babette Babich,
“Translating Nietzsche’s Imperative: Becoming the One You Are” Inaugural
Lesson, “Kant’s
Copernican Experiment” Paper
presented at the North American Kant Society Midwest Study Group, Loyola
University of Chicago, Response
to Presentation by Hadley Arkes, “Natural Rights
and the Right to Choose: How the Political Class Talked Itself Out of Natural
Rights” Natural
Law Colloquium, Response
to Paper by Craig Nichols, “Heidegger’s Transformation of Kant’s Ground of Transcendental
Unity” Eastern
Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, “John
Henry Newman: Who is the Man in the Passage?” Paper
presented as part of Newman Fellows lecture series, “The
Paradox of Knowing and Not-Knowing in Time of War” Paper
presented at “Patriotism in Time of War” Panel Discussion, “What
is Distinctive about Terrorism, and What are the Philosophical Implications?” Paper
presented at “Understanding Terrorism” conference, “What
is Living and What is Dead in the New Natural Law Theory” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Maritain
Association, “Newman
on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association, “Some
Problems with Rawlsian Public Reason” Paper
presented at “Rawls and the Law” Conference, “The Philosophical Meaning
of the Movie Memento” Paper presented to the
Fordham Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 17, 2003 “The Antinomy of the Old
and New Natural Law” Invited paper presented at
the Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Fichte
on Understanding Kant Better Than He Understood Himself” Paper presented at the
North American Fichte Society, “Lonergan
and the Critique of Immediacy” Invited paper presented at Lonergan Forum, “Reflections on Krzysztof Kieslowski’s
‘A Short Film about Killing’” Presentation sponsored by
Literary Studies and the Office of the University Chaplain, “Finding Philosophy in
Popular Music: The Case of the Beatles” Paper presented at
ACPA-sponsored session at the Eastern Division American Philosophical
Association meeting, “Idealism Before and After
Royce” Paper presented at the New
York Pragmatist Forum, “Towards a Working
Definition of Terrorism” Paper presented at the
“Reason of Terror” Conference, “Common Confusions about
the Common Good” Paper presented at the
International Medieval Studies Congress, “Response to Joseph Boyle
on Incommensurable Options, Self-Reference, and Free Choice” Paper presented at
conference on “Natural Law and Natural Rights in Contemporary Jurisprudence,”
“What Part Does Justice
Play in Natural Law and Natural Rights?” Invited paper presented at
the Murray Hill Institute, February 3, 2006 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: Designer
and Web-master of the Philosophy Department’s Web-page: www.fordham.edu/philosophy
(2000-2006) Member
and Chair, Graduate German Language Exam Committee (1998 - present) Member,
Executive Committee of the Philosophy Department (2000-02; 2006 - present) Member,
Committee for the Graduate Modern Comprehensive Reading List Exam (1998 -
present) Member,
Graduate Admissions Committee (2000-02; 2002-03; 2003-04; 2005-06) Member,
Merit Committee (spring 2000, spring 2007) Member,
Hiring Committee for Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships (summer 2001) Member,
MAPR Program Admissions Committee (2003) Member
of or Director on Several Ph.D. Dissertation Committees Adviser
to several graduate student instructors Faculty
Respondent at Graduate Student Symposium, Faculty
Advisor to Undergraduate Philosophy Club (2003 - 2006) Faculty
Advisor to Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, Sapientia et Doctrina (2003 - 2006) Member,
MAPR Examination Committee (2002, 2003, 2004) Member, Philosophy
Department Lecture Series Committee (2002-present) Chair, Philosophy
Department Lecture Series Committee (2005-present) Member, Peirce
Hiring Committee, fall 2005 – spring 2006 Member, Senior Thesis
Committee of Leonarda Gjoni,
Thesis Defense on May 12, 2006 UNIVERSITY-WIDE SERVICE: Freshman Adviser (1999-2002) Member, Executive
Committee of the Freshman Advising Program (since 2001) Member, Executive
Committee of the Service Learning Program (since 2002) Member, Faculty Senate
Committee on Salary and Benefits (2000-2001) Member, Faculty Task Force
on Campus Culture at Rose Hill (2001-02) Member, Faculty Speakers
Bureau (Office of Alumni Relations) Member, “Faculty Fifty”
(2001-2003) Faculty-in-Residence,
Queen’s Faculty Judge at “Disputatio,” Queen’s Court, Faculty Speaker at “Parents’
University,” part of Family Weekend, Faculty Speaker at “Dean’s
List” Ceremony (Class of 2003), Faculty Speaker at “Cinevents,” Assistant Coach, Mock
Trial Team of Faculty Chaperone, Fordham
Senior Week 2002 Fordham Representative at
AJCU “Justice” Conference, Faculty Advisor, Fordham
U.S.G. Budget Committee (2001-02) Newman Fellow in the “New
Fellows Series” (2002-03) Panelist, “Instructional
Technology and Academic Computing” Spring Conference, Participant at Member, Member, Board of Directors
of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District, 2003-2006 Faculty Speaker at “Parents’
University,” part of Family Weekend, Faculty Ballroom Dance
Instructor (with wife) for residents of Queen’s Member, Fordham’s Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences Web Task Force, summer 2004 Member, Task Force #4 (on
Leadership and Governance) for the University’s Middle States Self-Study
Process, spring 2004 – fall 2005 Member and Chair,
University Judicial Council, Spring 2004 ( Member, GSAS Website
Advisory Committee (summer 2004) Director, Graduate
Certificate Program in Health Care Ethics, Center for Ethics Education (since
fall 2004) External member, Promotion
Committee of the Psychology Department, Member, Seminar on
“Religious Issues and Higher Education,” sponsored by the Center for American
Catholic Studies, Member, Steering Committee
for Participant, Conference on
Panelist
on Dignitatis Humanae, Panelist,
“After-Logues,” Encaenia Commencement Marshall, May
21, 2005 Member, Committee on
Health Professions, Member,
University Research Council, fall 2005 – present Member,
Tenure Review and Appeals Committee, fall 2005 – present Member,
Faculty Senate Handbook Committee, fall 2005 – present Panelist,
“On the Road to Tenure,” Orientation for New Faculty, 2005 and 2006 Member,
Manresa Program, Panelist,
“The Internal Point of View in Law and Ethics,” Moderator,
“On the Morality of Abortion,” Federalist Society Chapter of Faculty
Advisor, The Social Dance Society at Panelist,
“On Jesuit Education,” Orientation for New Faculty, 2006 Moderator,
“Reflections on the End of Life: Schiavo Plus One,”
MEMBERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Member (since 1991),
American Catholic Philosophical Association; also National Secretary
(1992-93; and 1997-present), and Local Organizer for the 1995 Annual Meeting
(in Member (since 1989), Hegel
Society of America; also National Secretary (since 1994) and Local Organizer
for the 1994 ( Member (since 1998),
Society of Christian Philosophers; also Member of the SCP-ACPA Liaison
Committee Member (since 1985), Alpha
Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honors Society) Member (since 1989),
Fulbright Association Member (since 1989),
American Philosophical Association Member (since 1989),
Canadian Philosophical Association Member (since 1991), Hegel
Society of Member (since 1991),
American Association of University Professors Member (since 1991),
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Member (since 1994), Lonergan Philosophical Society Member (since 1991),
Metaphysical Society of Member (since 1998), North
American Kant Society, and Local Organizer for Eastern Study Group of the
North American Kant Society (spring 2004) Member (since 1998), North
American Fichte Society Member (since 1998),
Federalist Society OTHER SERVICE TO THE
PROFESSION: Reviewer for various
journals, including International
Philosophical Quarterly, American
Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Owl
of Minerva, Bulletin of the Hegel
Society of Great Britain, Journal
of the History of Philosophy, and for numerous presses, including
Northwestern University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge
University Press, SUNY Press, Catholic University of America Press, Cornell
University Press, Penn State University Press, University of Notre Dame
Press, and Fordham University Press Associate Editor, The Owl of Minerva, Journal of the
Hegel Society of Member, Program Committees
for the 1998 ( Organizer, Hegel Society
Group Session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2003 Local Organizer, Eastern
Study Group Meeting of the North American Kant Society, held at |
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