Biographical Summary
GEORGE R. LUCAS, JR. George Lucas is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Navy and National Programs in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD), and Visiting Professor of Ethics at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). He has taught at Emory University, Georgetown University, and served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, and also as Assistant Director in the Division of Research Programs in the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Belgium in 1989, and held a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1983.
Lucas received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University
in 1978. He is author of four books, over fifty journal articles,
translations, and book reviews, and has also edited eight
book-length collections of articles in philosophy and ethics,
including most recently: Ethics and the Military Profession: the
Moral Foundations of Leadership (New York: Pearson Education,
2005), Perspectives on Humanitarian Military Intervention
(University of California Press, 2001),
“From Jus
ad bellum to Jus ad pacem: Rethinking Just War Criteria
for the Use of Military Force for Humanitarian Ends,” in Ethics
and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2003),
and “The Role of the International Community in the Just War
Tradition: Confronting the Challenges of Humanitarian Intervention
and Preemptive War,” Journal of Military Ethics (2003). CURRICULUM VITAE George R. Lucas, Jr. Fall, 2004
Education
B.S., with Highest Honors in Physics, College of William and Mary, 1971. M. Div., Garrett Theological Seminary, Northwestern University, 1974. Ph.D., Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1978 (Dissertation: "Two Views of Freedom in Process Thought: A Study of Hegel and Whitehead").
Current Appointments
Professor of Philosophy, [tenured] Department of Leadership, Ethics & Law, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. [1996-present] Visiting Professor of Ethics, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA), 2005-present. Research Fellow, Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (France), 2007-present. Director, Navy and National Programs, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy (2006-present)
Previous Employment
Editor, Philosophy Series, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1990-2008. Editor, Ethics & the Military Profession, State University of New York Press, 2003-2008. Executive director, American Academy for Liberal Education, Washington D.C. [1998-2000; on leave of absence from U.S. Naval Academy] Visiting Professor of Ethics, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057; Spring-Fall, 1996; Adjunct Professor of Ethics, Spring, 1999. Senior Fellow, Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University [1996-2001] Assistant Director, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 1991-1995. Distinguished Visiting Professor and Fulbright Research Scholar , Katholieke Universiteit-Leuven (Belgium), 1989. Professor of Philosophy (tenured, 1988; promoted to full professor, 1989), Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 1987-1991 (on leave, Spring semester, 1991). Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; 1986-1987. Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured) and Department Chairman, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1982-1987 (on leave, 1986‑87). Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Department Chairman, Randolph‑Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1978-1982. Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia, 1977-1978.
Honors and Awards
Predoctoral Omicron Delta Kappa, 1970. Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Chapter), 1971. Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, 1971. Senior physics thesis, "A Study of Gamma Ray Emission following Muon Capture in Even‑Even, Intermediate Z Nuclei," published in The Physical Review C, 7 (April 1973), 1678‑1686. University Fellow, Northwestern University (Technological Institute), 1971. Clinical Residency Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Institute for Religion and Human Development, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, 1974-75. Summer traveling fellowship for language study: University of Vienna, 1976. Dempster Fellowships (United Methodist Church), 1976-77, 1977-78. Bibliographical Fellowship, 1977-78. Postdoctoral A. Teaching Awards, Lectureships, Professional Recognition Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching (Randolph‑Macon College), 1979. Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981. Chair of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; April 1‑6, 1989. Biography included in Who's Who in America (47th and subsequent eds.); Who's Who in the World (15th and subsequent); Who's Who in American Education (3rd - 5th ed. B. Book Awards Ph.D. dissertation accepted for publication in Scholars' Press Dissertation Series, sponsored by American Academy of Religion, 1979. Book, The Genesis of Modern Process Thought, named to the 1983 list of "Outstanding Academic Books" by Choice. Invited to contribute essays to each of three volumes of the "Library of Living Philosophers" series (H-G Gadamer, C. Hartshorne, P. Weiss). 1993/94 Pergamon Prize awarded by Elsevier Science Publishers and the Editors of the History of European Ideas for essay, "Is Hermeneutics Philosophy?" (Essay for Gadamer volume) C. Fellowships NEH Summer Institute fellow, "War and Morality," University of Massachusetts‑Amherst, 1979. NEH Summer Seminars fellow, "Philosophy and History," University of Virginia, 1980. American Theological Library Association Fellowship, 1979. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1982. NEH Summer Institute fellow, "Kantian Ethical Thought," The Johns Hopkins University, 1983. Provost's Research Award, Clemson University, 1988. Fulbright Research Fellowship (Belgium), 1989. University Summer Research Fellowship, Clemson University, 1990. Chosen by NEH to attend senior executive management seminar in Denver, CO (graduate credit in management awarded through the American Council on Education), 1992. Selected as first recipient of NEH "Independent Research, Study, and Development" award (sabbatical release time), 1993. D. Grants Project Director, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, “War & Morality: Re-thinking the Just War Tradition for the 21st Century,” U.S. Naval Academy (June 1-25, 2004). $151,200 from NEH, plus $40,000 in additional funding from USNA Class of 1964 and the Center for Professional Military Ethics, USNA. 30 participants; 25 guest faculty, including Michael Ignatieff, Henry Shue, James Turner Johnson, Martin L. Cook, Shannon E. French, and a range of political scientists, senior government and military officials, and international relations and international law scholars. Project Director, “Trends in the Liberal Arts Core,” $310,000 from FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) and $50,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for study general education reform and core curriculum requirements for undergraduates at 66 participating colleges and universities in all four (old) Carnegie categories: 1999-2002. Project Director, “A New Model of Accreditation for Liberal Arts Colleges and Programs,” $600,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, $450,000 from The Pew Charitable Trusts for programmatic and institutional accreditation based upon “educational audit” of student work and demonstrated student competency in core liberal arts subject areas: 2000-2003. Project Director, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "The Philosophical Uses of Historical Traditions," Clemson University (June‑July, 1990). $156,300 direct grant from NEH; $26,000 in matching funds from participating institutions; $2,500 from local groups for a summer public lecture series in the humanities. 25 participants and 10 other guest faculty (Jerome Schneewind, Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Rosen, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lynn Joy, Arthur Danto, George Allan, Robert Neville, John Smith, and Donald Phillip Verene). Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Metaphysics and the Modern World: Whitehead and His Critics," University of Santa Clara (June‑August, 1986). $115,000 outright funding from NEH, plus $46,000 in matching funds from participating institutions, for 26 participants and 4 other guest faculty (John E. Smith, Donald W. Sherburne, Edward Pols, and Robert C. Neville). Project Director, Conferences grant of $18,400 from the Division of Research Programs, NEH, for international symposium on "Hegel and Whitehead," hosted at Fordham University, June 2-6, 1984.
Courses Taught
A. Undergraduate (one semester or one quarter, except as noted; *= USNA 1996-present) *SM 121 Intro Differential Calculus for Engineers *SM122 Intro Integral Calculus & Differential Equations for Engineers *NE 203 Moral Reasoning for Naval Leaders Introduction to Ethics Ethics and Public Policy History of Ethics (two semesters) Biomedical Ethics Ethical Issues in Technological Development Business Ethics Seminar: Kant's Ethics & Social Philosophy Seminar: War and Morality Seminar: Poverty and Famine (team-taught w/ Prof. Onora O’Neill, Spring, 1984) *NP 230 Introduction to Philosophy *NP 336 Introduction to World Religions Late Modern Philosophy: Kant to Wittgenstein *NP 340 Philosophy of Science Seminar: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy (Moore to Rawls) Seminar: Hegel's Phenomenology B. Graduate Whitehead's Philosophy (Emory University, Fall, 1986) Contemporary Options in Metaphysics (Emory University, Spring, 1987) Fulbright research seminar: Perception, Causality, and Induction (for the faculty of the Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Kathol. Univ.--Leuven, Belgium; Spring, 1989) Graduate student seminar: Causality--the History of an Idea (Leuven, Spring, 1989)
Professional Affiliations
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1977- present. American Academy of Religion, 1978-1986 Hegel Society of America, 1982-1992 Metaphysical Society of America, 1984-2000. Program Chairman, 1986; elected to the Executive Council, 1989-92, Program Committee, 1997-98. MSA Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies, 1997-2000. Fulbright Alumni Association, 1992-present (lifetime member). Referee for: Wadsworth Press (ethics textbooks); Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Politics, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Process Studies, American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series.
Academic Service, Administration, and Other Responsibilities
Chair, American Philosophical Association Career Opportunities Committee (1999-2002). Consulting Editor in Philosophy, Grolier’s Encyclopedia Americana, 1996 - 2002. Associate Department Chair, Leadership, Ethics & Law (2001-2006) Ethics Section Head (1999-2006) Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 1999-2006 Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2005-06 Faculty Research Award Selection Committee, 1999-2002 Dean’s Assessment Task Force (Middle States Association), 1999-2002 Midshipmen Development Board, 2003-present. Volunteer Discussion Leader, USNA Integrity Development Seminar Program, Spring, 1996-Spring, 2001. Member, Integrity Development Seminars Coordinating and Advisory Committee, USNA, 1996-2000. Member, Character Development Advisory Council, USNA, 1996-2000. Faculty Representative, USNA Faculty Senate (from Division of Professional Development), 1996-98. Faculty Senate Secretary (1997-98) Officer in Charge, Command Seamanship Training Squadron, USNA, 1996-2002. Chair, Ethics Search Committee, (1996-97, 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2000-2001). Member, National Endowment for Humanities Senior Assessment Team, 1993-95 Co-chair, NEH External Customer Survey Assessment Team, 1994-95 University Faculty Senator, College of Liberal Arts, Clemson University (1988-1990) College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee, Clemson University (1988-1990) Philosophy Department representative, University Assessment and Accreditation Committee (1989-90) Philosophy Department Search Committee Chairman, Santa Clara University (1983-85) Philosophy Department Chairman, Santa Clara University (1985-87) Western Culture Core Curriculum Committee, Santa Clara University (1984-86) Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Advisor (1983-86) Philosophy Department Chairman, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82) Freshman-Sophomore Core Advisor, Randolph-Macon College (1979-82) Philosophy Major Advisor, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82) Long Range Planning Committee, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82) Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Advisor (1979-82)
Bibliography: George R. Lucas, Jr.
Books Perspectives on Humanitarian Military Intervention. Response by General Anthony C. Zinni, U.S. Marine Corps (retired). “The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture Series on National Security Affairs – University of California at Berkeley.” Berkeley, CA: University of California Institute of Governmental Studies, 2001. The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 1989. The Genesis of Modern Process Thought: A Historical Outline with Bibliography. London and Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983. “American Theological Library Association Bibliographical Essay Series, #13.” [Named an "Outstanding Academic Book" for 1983 by Choice.] Two Views of Freedom in Process Thought: A Study of Hegel and Whitehead. “American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series.” Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1979. Texts, Anthologies, and Special Journal Issues (edited) Ethics and the Military Profession: The Moral Foundations of Leadership, Co-Editor with Captain W.R. Rubel. London/New York: Longmans, 2005. (Replaces five editions of the single-volume series “Ethics for Military Leaders” of which I was the lead editor since 1996.) Case Studies in Ethics and the Military Profession. Co-editor with Captain W.R. Rubel. London/New York: Longmans, 2005. [Note: these two volumes have also been adopted at the U. S.Air Force Academy, and nation-wide in 57 colleges and universities supporting Naval Reserve Officer Training (NROTC) Programs.] Whitehead und der deutsche Idealismus. Co-edited with Antoon Braeckman. Frankfurt & Bern: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990. Technology and Epistemology: The Boundaries of Cognitive Theory. A special issue of Logos, vol. 7 (1986). Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986. Poverty, Justice and the Law: New Essays on Needs, Rights, and Obligations. Lanham, MD: University Press of America Reprint Series, 1986. Originally published as a special issue of Logos, volume 6, 1985. The East‑West Confrontation over Human Rights: Sociological and Religious Perspectives. A special issue of Soundings, 67, no. 2 (1984). Co-edited with James E. Will. Lifeboat Ethics: The Moral Dilemmas of World Hunger. New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Co‑edited w/Thomas W.Ogletree. Articles
1. Refereed Journals “Methodological Anarchy: Arguing about War, and Getting it Right,” Journal of Military Ethics, 6, no. 3 (2 007), 246-252. “The Role of the International Community in the Just War Tradition: Confronting the Challenges of Humanitarian Intervention and Preemptive War,” Journal of Military Ethics (2003), 1-24. "Charles Hartshorne: the Last or the First?" The Personalist Forum, 14, no. 2 (Fall, 1998), 83-108 “The Seventh Seal – On the Fate of Whitehead’s Proposed Rehabilitation,” Process Studies, 25 (1996), 105-116. "African Famine: New Economic and Ethical Perspectives," The Journal of Philosophy, LXXXVII, no. 11 (1990) 629-641. "Foundation‑Free Philosophy and the Quest for Justice," The Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America, 22, no. 1 (1990) 81‑90. "The Interpretation of Kant in Whitehead's Philosophy," Ruch Filozoficzny Kwartalnik, 47, no. 3. (1990) 213‑230; revised version reprinted in Whitehead und der deutsche Idealismus. Frankfurt & Bern: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990. "The Status of Process Philosophy in the United States Today: the Legacy of Alfred North Whitehead," Ruch Filozoficzny Kwartalnik, 47, no. 1 (1990) 1‑ 26. "Agency After Virtue: A Defense of Kantian Constructivism," International Philosophical Quarterly, 28, no. 3 (September, 1988) 293‑311. "Bilder einer Ausstellung: A Walk through the Gallery of Images in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit." [Co-authored with Patricia Cook] The Owl of Minerva, 20, no. 1 (Fall, 1988) 81‑96. "Evolutionist Theories and Whitehead's Philosophy," Process Studies, 14, no. 4 (1985) 287‑300. "Outside the Camp: Recent Work on Whitehead's Philosophy, Part I." Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, 21, no. 1 (1985) 49‑75. "Outside the Camp: Recent Work on Whitehead's Philosophy, Part II." Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, 21, no. 3 (1985) 327‑382. "A Re‑interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature." Journal of the History of Philosophy, 22, no. 1 (January, 1984), 103‑113. "Helsinki's Child: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Human Rights Publications Since 1975." Philosophy Research Archives, vol. 9 (1983). 49pp. (microfiche) "History and the 'Meaning' of History: Two Contrasting Perspectives." Logos, 4 (Summer, 1983) 47‑69. "The Economics and Politics of Hunger: Strategies to Combat Famine." Soundings, 59, no. 1 (Spring 1976) 1‑28. 2. Chapters in Books “From Jus ad bellum to Jus ad pacem: Rethinking Just War Criteria for the Use of Military Force for Humanitarian Ends,” in Humanitarian Intervention, eds. Donald Scheid and Deen K. Chatterjee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 72-96. “Slicing and Dicing: Teaching Descartes’ Meditations from the perspective of Mathematics rather than Philosophy,” Invited Keynote Address, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Association of Core Texts and Courses in Montreal, Canada (April 2002). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006 . “Offense or Defense: Two Contrasting Perspectives on Just War Theory,” Proceedings of the Lincoln Center for Ethics Conference on “War and the Clash of cultures” (Arizona State University, February 26-28, 2003), ed. Peter French. New York: Routledge, 2005 “Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality (1929): Scientific Revolutions and the Search for Covariant Metaphysical Principles,” in The Classics of Western Philosophy, eds. Jorge Gracia, Greg Reichberg, and Bernard N. Schumacher. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 504-511. “Ethics and the Use of Comparative Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Robert Neville,” Interpreting Neville: Critical Studies in the Thought of Robert C. Neville, eds. Nancy Frankenberry and J. Harley Chapman , State University of New York Press, 1999, 77-91. “Recollection, Forgetting, and the Hermeneutics of History,” Hegel, History, and Interpretation, ed. Shaun Gallagher (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 97-115. “Philosophy’s Recovery of its History,” The Recovery of Philosophy in America, ed. Thomas Kasulis and Robert C. Neville (Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 11-37. “Philosophy, Its History, and Hermeneutics” in The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, “The Library of Living Philosophers Series,” ed. Louis E. Hahn (Chicago, IL: Open Court Publ., 1996), 173-189 with a response by Prof. Gadamer. [1993 Symposium paper selection at the American Philosophical Association annual meeting; winner of the 1993/94 Elsevier Prize competition (Oxford, England) for the outstanding new essay on the history of European ideas.] “Whitehead and Wittgenstein: the Critique of Enlightenment and the Possibility of Metaphysics,” Ludwig Wittgenstein and the 20th Century British Tradition in Philosophy, "Proceedings of the 17th International Wittgenstein Congress, Kirchberg-am-Wechsel, Austria" (Vienna: Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1995). "Philosophical Inquiry and Reflective Historical Engagement: Some Right and Wrong Uses of History in Philosophy," in The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, "Library of Living Philosophers" ed. Lewis E. Hahn (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Publishers, 1995), 159-176. "Refutation, Narrative, and Engagement: Three Philosophies of the History of Philosophy," in Patricia Cook, ed.: Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), 104‑121. "Hartshorne and the Development of Process Philosophies," in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, ed. Lewis E. Hahn, "Library of Living Philosophers, vol. XX" (LaSalle, IL: Open Court Publ., 1991), 509‑527. "Moral Order and the Constraints of Agency: Toward a New Metaphysics of Morals," New Essays in Metaphysics, ed. Robert C. Neville (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987), 117‑139. 3. Other Publications “Alfred North Whitehead,” Encyclopedia Americana (Danbury, CT: Groliers, 2002) “Designing Instruction in Professional Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy,” (w/David Johnson), Teaching and Learning in the Next Century, ed. Anita Gandolfo (West Point: U.S. Military Academy Press, 1997), pp. 63-72. “Sexual Harassment at Mitsubishi Motors,” co-authored with Jonathan Larkin and Jennifer Esposito, in Case Studies in Business, Ethics, and Society, 4th edition, ed. Tom L. Beauchamp (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997). "Time in the Philosophy of A.N. Whitehead," in The Encyclopedia of Time, ed. Samuel L. Macey (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing Co., 1994). "Famine and Global Policy." Christian Century, 92, no. 23 (September, 1975) 753‑758. "Vietnamese In America: Reflections on Visiting a Refugee Camp." Christian Century, 92, no. 24 (23 July, 1975) 681‑684. [Also a number of book reviews published over the past 15 years in Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of European Ideas, Review of Politics, Journal of Religion, Process Studies, the Baltimore Sun, and in other publications.]
Selected Lectures and Papers
“Searching for Analogies in the Debate about Preventive War,” invited keynote address, Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE), January 25,2005 “Preventing Preventive War: Criteria for Restraining Wars of Intervention,” presentation for an APA Pacific Division colloquium arranged by the Society for Philosophy and Law (Portland, OR; March 26, 2005); and also for the International Studies Association annual meeting (San Diego, CA; March 28, 2995). “From Jus ad bellum to Jus ad pacem: Rethinking Just War Criteria for the Use of Military Force for Humanitarian Ends,” Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics, January 24, 2002. “Perspectives on Humanitarian Intervention: 2001,” The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Lectures on National Security Affairs (University of California-Berkeley), March 7, 2001, as civilian accompanist to the military lecturer, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (USMC, retired). “The Reluctant Interventionist,” colloquium paper at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division (Berkeley, CA), March 28, 1999. “Ethical Issues in the Use of Military Force for Humanitarian Intervention,” Keynote discussion paper for the Third Conference on Ethics and Warfare in the 21st Century (sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and the National War College: February 5-6, 1998 at USNA). Keynote Address, “Charles Hartshorne: The Last or the First?” Hartshorne Centennial Birthday Conference, University of Texas-Austin, October 10, 1998 28th Annual Walter Powell-Linfield College Philosophy Lecturer, “Philosophy and Its History” (First Public Lecture: “What is the History of Philosophy the History of?” Second Public Lecture: “People Without a Name: Memory, Forgetting, and the Hermeneutics of History,” Linfield College, McMannville, Oregon (May 5-6, 1997). “Designing Instruction in Professional Ethics at USNA” (presented with Prof. David Johnson, USNA), Teaching and Learning for the Next Century, sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, U. S. Military Academy (West Point), September 27, 1996. “Morality and Self Interest: the Role of Applied Ethics in College Life,” Convocation Address at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA (August 26, 1996) “Economic Models, Economic Forecasting, and Ethics,” presented to the Connelly Forum in Business Ethics (March 8, 1996) and at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics (April 16, 1996) at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). “The ‘True’ History Standards: the Importance of History in the Debate About Culture,” Keynote Address, 21st Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, University of California-Santa Barbara (October 21, 1995). "Whitehead and Wittgenstein--the Critique of Enlightenment and the Possibility of Metaphysics," invited closing plenary address, 17th International Wittgenstein Congress, Kirchberg-am-Wechsel/Vienna, Austria (August 14-21, 1994). "Is Hermeneutics 'Philosophy'?-- Art, Philosophy, and the Shape of the Past," American Philosophical Association Lead Symposium Paper, Eastern Division Meeting (Atlanta, GA; December 30, 1993). "A Tale of Two Students: Why Humanities Scholars Don't Collaborate," Lecture for the Smithsonian Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center; September 23, 1991. Lead Symposium paper, Eastern Division Main Program, American Philosophical Association (Boston, MA: December 29, 1990): "African Famine: New Economic and Ethical Perspectives." American Philosophical Association Main Program (Pacific Division; San Francisco, CA: March 30, 1991): "Refutation, Narrative, Engagement: Three Perspectives on the History of Philosophy." Two Inaugural lectures for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty (Clemson University: June 23‑July 24, 1990): (1) "Philosophy, the Humanities, and the Role of Historical Traditions"; (2) "History and the Culture of Disciplines: the Use and Abuse of Historical Traditions." Eastern Division Main Program, American Philosophical Association (New York, NY: Dec. 29, 1988): "Analytic and Post‑Analytic Themes in Whitehead's Metaphysics." Pacific Division Main Program, American Philosophical Association (March 22, 1984): "A Reinterpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature." Invited address, Chair of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University (Torun, Poland; April 6, 1989): "Misconceptions of Kant in Whitehead's Philosophy." Fulbright Faculty Lecture (Leuven, Belgium; May 8, 1989): "Perception and the Problem of Causality: Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Whitehead." Featured Guest Speaker, International Symposium (Leuven, Belgium): "Recent Studies of Whitehead's Philosophy in the U.S." Five 2‑hour seminars on a variety of issues (e.g., causality, being and becoming, ontological status of past events, etc.) for scholars from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and W. Germany; April 7‑8, 1989. Emory University Philosophy Colloquium (February 1, 1987): "Science and Teleological Explanations: Churchland's Functionalism and Dennett's Intentional Stance." Invited Lecture, Metaphysical Society of America (New York, NY: March 14, 1987): "Agency After Virtue: Kant and MacIntyre on Minimal Notions of Morality."
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