CURRICULUM VITAE

William J. Gavin

Home Address 23 Battery Point LaneYarmouth, Maine 04096

University Address University of Southern Maine Department of Philosophy PO Box 9300Portland Maine 04104-9300

Telephone office: 207-780-4242 home: 207-846-5745

E-mail wjg43@maine.rr.comgavin@usm.maine.edu

Date of Birth December 16, 1943 Citizenship: United States

Education: PhD Philosophy Fordham University, 1970 Thesis: "An Aesthetic Approach to the Philosophy of William James"

MA Philosophy Fordham University, 1967

BA Russian Language & Soviet Area Studies Fordham University, 1965

Employment: 1977-present Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern

Maine, Portland, Maine

2007-2008 Professor of Philosophy, Chair of DepartmentUniversity of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine

Spring 1996 Co-Chair of Department and Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine

1984-1986 Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Department; and concurrently Walter E. Russell Professor of Philosophy and Education, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine

Fall 1977 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

1972-1977 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department, University of Maine at Portland-Gorham

1970-1972 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department, University of Maine at Portland-Gorham

1968-1970 Instructor of Philosophy, University of Maine at Portland

1966-1968 Part Time Instructor of Philosophy, Fordham University

Interests: American Philosophy; Russian Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; Aesthetics; Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Death and Dying;

Interdisciplinary Courses: Three Crises in Western Culture; Progress, Process or Permanence: All that Is Solid Melts Into Air

Teaching:

Interdisciplinary Courses TaughtUSM Honors Program Scholar, 1988-2008. Course Taught: "Process, Progress, or Permanence: All that is Solid Melts Into Air."

Team-taught Summer Interdisciplinary Course for Gifted and Talented High School Students. "Three Crises in Western Culture: Civilization on Trial." 1983, 1984, 1985.

First Team-taught CORE interdisciplinary course. "Three Crises in Western Culture: Civilization on Trial." 1982

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Senior Seminar in Social Welfare, 1971

Philosophy Courses Taught: American Philosophy (both graduate and undergraduate)Epistemology Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy of Modern Life Philosophy of Science Metaphysics Logic and Theory of Knowledge (graduate level) Aesthetics Russian Philosophy Philosophy of Nature (both graduate and undergraduate)Ancient Philosophy Death and Dying Ethics The Modern Age (USM Honors Course) Philosophy Seminars:

John Dewey William James Comparative American and Russian Philosophy Positivism, Phenomenology and Pragmatism in William James (both graduate and undergraduate levels) Philosophy and the Social Context: A Comparison of Kuhn,

Marx and Dewey American Philosophy

Research, Scholarship, and Creative Accomplishments: President, William James Society, 2005

Chair and Local Host, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, March 2002

Visiting Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway, Fall 1999

University of Southern Maine, Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award, 1997

Research Professor, Rissho University, Shinagawa, Japan, May-June 1992

Co-Editor, The Maine Scholar, 1992-99

Fellow, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Japan Studies Institute, San Diego State University, Summer 1989

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Walter E. Russell Chair of Philosophy and Education, 1984-86

Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Phenomenology, Existentialism and the Life-World: Studies in Husserl, Sartre, Schutz -- Yale University, 1979

Guest Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Fall 1977. Visiting Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, Spring, 1975

Fellowship to Study Abroad in Finland and Soviet Union, Summer, 1965

Books: In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, edited by

William J. Gavin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).

Cuttin' the Body Loose: Historical, Biological, and Personal Approaches to Deathand Dying (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).

William James and the Reinstatement of the Vague (Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press, 1992).

Context Over Foundation: Dewey and Marx, William J. Gavin, editor (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988).

Marxism and Alternatives: Towards the Conceptual Interaction Among SovietPhilosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism, and Phenomenology, Tom

Rockmore, James Colbert, William J. Gavin, and Thomas J. Blakeley (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981)

Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison, William J. Gavin and Thomas J.

Blakeley (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976)

Articles and Reviews: 2012: “The Context of Diversity versus the Problem of Diversity,” in

Pragmatism and Diversity: Dewey in the Context of Late Twentieth Century Debates, edited by Stephan Neubert,

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Kersten Reich and David Woods (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

2010: “Pragmatism and Death: Method vs. Metaphor, Tragedy vs. The

Will to Believe,” in One Hundred Years of Pragmatism: WilliamJames’s Revolutionary Philosophy, edited by John J. Stuhr (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,

2010)

Co-authored, with Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich, “Language and Its Discontents: William James, Richard Rorty, and Interactive Constructivism,” in Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 7 No. 2,

December 2010

2009: Review: James O. Pawelski, The Dynamic Individualism of William James, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009

Review: James Campbell, A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years

of the American Philosophy Association, Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, No. II, 2009

“Pragmatism and Death: Method vs. Metaphor, Tragedy vs. ‘The Will to Believe’,” in 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James’s Revolutionary Philosophy, edited by John J. Stuhr, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009)

2008: “Chaadayev and Emerson -- Two Mystic Pragmatists,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 197, (Detroit: Gale, Centage Learning) reprint of 1973.

“William James, 1842 – 1910” Amerikanskaya Filosofia (Moscow: Idea Press, 2008) reprint of 2004

“The Urban and the Aesthetic”, Philosophy and the City: Classic to Contemporary Writings, edited by Sharon M. Meagher, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008) reprint of 1971

“James, William (1842-1910),” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

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“Vagueness,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

“Immediacy,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

“Ambiguity,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

“Sick Soul,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

“Habit,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, 2008)

2007: “’Problem’ vs. ‘Trouble’: James, Kafka, Dostoevsky and ‘The Will to Believe’,” William James Studies, Vol 2 issue 1, 2007

Review: Joan Richardson, A Natural History of Pragmatism, newsletter Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, No. 209, Nov 2007

2006:“The Importance of Context in John Dewey’s Philosophy,” Dewey, Pragmatism and Modern Philosophy, edited by Yu Wujin, (Beijing: Renmin Press, 2006)

“Locality in American Culture and the American Experience,” in Experience as Philosophy: On the Work of John J. McDermott, edited by James Campbell and Richard E. Hart, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006)

Review: Naoko Saito, The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfection and Education in Dewey and Emerson, newsletter Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, #105, Nov 2006

2004:"William James, 1842-1910," in The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, edited by Armen T. Marsoobian and John Ryder (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, LTD, 2004)

“The Importance of ‘The Vague’ in William James’s Philosophy,” Jianghai Academic Journal, 2004, #4

Co-author, with James Pawelski, “James’s ‘Pure Experience’ and Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘Flow’,” Streams of William James, Vol 6, issue 2, Summer 2004

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Review: Robert Talisse and D. Micah Hester, On James, newsletter, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, # 98, June 2004

2003: "Contexts Vibrant and Contexts Souring in Dewey's Philosophy," in In

Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003)

"On 'Tame' and 'Untamed' Death: Jamesian Reflections,” Pragmatic Bioethics, edited by Glenn McGee, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) (Reprint of 1999 article)

"Between Logic and Philosophy: A Jamesian View," Society and Culture, Vol 10, 2003

2002: Review: Liezl Van Zyl, Death and Compassion: a Virtue-Based

Approach to Euthanasia (Burlington: VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.),

Philosophy in Review, Vol 22, #5, October 2002

2001: Review: Phil Oliver, William James's "Springs of Delight": The Return to Life, Newsletter, Society for t he Advancement of American Philosophy, #89,

2000: Review: John Ryder, Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of America of Thought, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 36, #1, Winter, 2000.

1999:“On 'Tame' and 'Untamed' Death: Jamesian Reflections," Pragmatic Bioethics, edited by Glenn McGee (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.)

"How Things Go Wrong in Our Experience: John Dewey vs. Franz Kafka vs. William Carlos Williams,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 35, #1, Winter 1999.

Review: Michael Eldridge, Transforming Experience: John Dewey's Cultural Instrumentalism, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 13, # 1, 1999

Review: John Lachs, In Love With Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and Why We Hate to Die, Newsletter, Society for the

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Advancement of American Philosophy, #83, June 1999

1998: "The Woman, the Warrior, and the Wedding: James's Pragmatism, Marriage, and Divorce," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol 12, # 4, 1998

Review: Edward S. Reed, The Necessity of Experience, Newsletter, Society For the Advancement of American Philosophy, #80, June 1998

1997: Review: Ellen Kappy Suckiel, Heaven's Champion: William James's

Philosophy of Religion, Newsletter, Society For the Advancement of American Philosophy, #77, June 1997.

Review: Steve Odin, The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism, International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 37, #3, September 1997.

1996: “Whose Hero-ine? Which History? On Acceptance And/Or Denial In Death And Dying," The Maine Scholar, vol. 9, Autumn 1996.

1995: "Vagueness Untamed, or Naming the Unnameable", Metaphilosophy,

Vol. 26, #3, July 1995.

1994: Review: Andrzej Walicki, "Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism",

Metaphilosophy, Vol. 25, #3 & 4, April/July 1994.

Review: Margaret E. Donnelly, ed., Reinterpreting the Legacy of William James, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXX, #2, Spring 1994.

1993: Review: Stanley Scott, Frontiers of Consciousness, Interdisciplinary

Studies in American Philosophy and Poetry, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter, #65, June 1993.

1992: "Metaphors Reveal But Also Conceal: Images of Japan", Asian Thought and Society, Vol. XVII, #49, January-April 1992.

Review: Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A

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Genealogy of Pragmatism, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. VI, #1, 1992.

1991: "L'Esthetique de John Dewey et la Context Urbain,” Archives de Philosophie, tome 54, cahier 2, Avril-Juin 1991.

Review: William Andrew Paringer, John Dewey and the Paradox of Liberal Reform, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXVII, #3, Summer 1991.

1990: "Whose Joy? Which Learning?" in The Joy of Learning, edited by

Willard Callendar, Margaret Vishneau and Kelly Nelson. Portland, ME: University of Southern Maine, 1990.

Review: Cornel West, The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, The Personalist Forum, Vol. VI, #2, Fall 1990.

1989: "Text versus Context: Irony and 'The Communist Manifesto'", Studies

in Soviet Thought, Vol. 37, #4, 1989.

"William James, Dieu et la Possibilité Actuelle", Archives de Philosophie, tome 52, cahier 4, Octobre-Decembre 1989.

"Language and Technology as 'Probes' into Death and Dying", The Maine Scholar, Vol. 2, Autumn 1989.

"Consciousness As a Process of Selection: William James and Modernity", Forum for Honors, Vol. XIX, #3, Summer 1989

Review: Frederick Copelston, S.J., Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 38, #2, 1989.

1988: "The Gardner Case in Maine: Summary and Reflections", Newsletter

on Philosophy and Medicine, a publication of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 88, #1, November 1988.

"Text, Context and the Existential Limit: A Jamesian Strain in Marx and Dewey", in Context Over Foundation: Dewey and Marx, edited by William J. Gavin (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988).

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"Re-Covering vs. Re-Covering or 'Thinking Through' the Question of 'What Socrates Began'", in What Socrates Began: An Examination of the Intellect, edited by Libby Cohen (Portland, ME: University of Southern Maine, March 1988).

1987: "Heroes and Deconstruction: Lermontov's A Hero Of Our Time",

Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 34, #4, November 1987.

Review: John J. McDermott, Streams of Experience: Reflections on The History and Philosophy of American Culture, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, #4, December 1987.

1986: "William James and the Need to Preserve 'The Vague'", Walter E.

Russell Lecture, University of Southern Maine, Fall, 1986.

"Science as Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Interrelationship of Masterman's 'Paradigm Clusters'", Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XI, # 3, April 1986.

Review: Michael Ryan, Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 31, #3, April 1986.

1985: "James and Deconstruction: What Difference Does Difference

Make?" Soundings, Vol. LXVIII, #4, Winter 1985.

"Some Marxist Interpretations of James' Pragmatism: A Summary and Reply", Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 29, #4, May 1985.

"The Phenomenology of Trials: Text and Socio-Political Context", co-authored with Professor Jeremiah Conway, Cogito, Vol. III, #1, March 1985.

"John Dewey: Philosophy as Context and the Context of Philosophy", Walter E. Russell Lecture, University of Southern Maine, Fall 1985.

1984: "Regional Ontologies, Types of Meaning and the 'Will to Believe' in

the Philosophy of William James", Journal of the British Society

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of Phenomenology, Vol. 15, #3, October 1984.

"Dewey, Marx, and James' 'Will to Believe'", Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 28, #1, July 1984.

"Pantheisme Pluraliste et Possibilite Actuelle: Reflexions Sur A Pluralistic Universe de William James", Archives de Philosophie, tome 47, cahier 4, 1984.

"The 'Will to Believe' in Science and Religion", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 15, 1984.

1983: "Works of Art as Cultural Probes", co-authored with Professor

Jeremiah Conway, The Journal of the Theory and Criticism of the Visual Arts, Vol. 1, #2, 1983.

"American Philosophy: The Importance of Context", Society and Thought, Vol. I, #1, January 1983.

Review: John Krige, Science, Revolution and Discontinuity, in Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 25, #1, January 1983.

Review: Gerald Galgan, The Logic of Modernity, in International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXII, #4, December 1983.

1982: "Teaching by Trial: A Philosophical Analysis", co-authored with

Professor Jeremiah Conway, The Maine Classicist, February 1982.

"Is Lying Always Wrong?" Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. IX, #2 and #3, Summer 1982.

"The Use of Trials as a Pedagogical Device in Interdisciplinary Courses", co-authored with Professor Jeremiah Conway, Perspectives, Vol. XII, #2, Spring 1982.

Review: Don Ihde, Technics and Praxis, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 23, #4, May 1982.

Review: Melvin Rader, Marx's Interpretation of History, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 23, #4,

Review: Tom W. Goff, Marx and Mead: Contributions to a

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Sociology of Knowledge, Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 24, #2, August 1982.

1981: "Vagueness and Empathy: A Jamesian View", The Journal of Medicine

and Philosophy, Vol, 6, #1, February 1981.

"William James: positiviste, phenomenologue ou pragmatiste?" Archives de Philosophie, tome 44, cahier 3, Juillet-Septembre 1981.

"En Attendant La Mort: Plato's Socrates, Tolstoy's Ivan Illych, and Beckett's Waiting for Godot", Soundings, Vol. LXIV, #2, Summer 1981.

1980: "The Importance of Context: Reflections on Kuhn, Marx and Dewey",

Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 21, #1, February 1980.

"Peirce and the 'Will to Believe'", The Monist, Vol. 63, #3, July, 980.

"Loyalty and Responsibility in Business Ethics", Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. VIII, #2, Spring 1980.

1979: "James' Metaphysics: Language as the House of 'Pure Experience'", Man and World, Vol. 12, #2, 1979.

"A Humanistic Ethics for Medicine", Religious Humanism, Vol. XIII, #3, Summer 1979.

"A note on Socrates and the Law in the Crito", Aitia, Vol. 7, #2, 1979.

"Pragmatism and the Classical Definition of Truth: A Re-Specification of the Context of American Philosophy", feature book review of Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of Pragmatism, by John Smith, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XIX, #4, December 1979. Review: Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Chaos and Context: A Study in William James, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XIX, #3, September 1979.

1978 : "William James' Philosophy of Science", The New Scholasticism, Vol.

LII, #3, Summer 1978.

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"The Quest for Immediacy", Religious Humanism, Vol. 12, #2, Spring 1978.

"Modern Art and William James", Science/Technology and the Humanities, Vol. 1, #1, Winter 1978.

1977: "Death: Acceptance or Denial?" Religious Humanism, Vol. 11, #3, Summer 1977.

Review: John J. McDermott, The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the American Grain, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XVII, #3, September 1977.

1976: "William James and the Importance of 'The Vague'", Cultural Hermeneutics, Vol. 3, #3, March 1976.

"William James' Views on Language", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XVI, #1, March 1976.

"William James and the Indeterminacy of Language and 'The Really Real'", Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1976.

"William James' Attitude Toward Death", Journal of Thought, Vol. 11, #3, July 1976.

"The American Dream vs. The American Nightmare", Journal of Thought, Vol. X, #4, Autumn 1976.

1975: "Science and Myth in Plato's Timaeus", The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. VI, #2, 1975.

"Royce and Khomyakov on Community As Process", Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 15, #2, 1975.

"On the Importance of Questions", Religious Humanism, Vol. IX, #1, Winter 1975.

"Language: Insulating or Liberating", Religious Humanism, Vol. IX, #4, Autumn 1975.

1974: "William James: The Richness and Intensity of Life", The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 8, #3, 1974.

"Social Welfare Through American Philosophy: An Aesthetic Approach", Social Science and Social Welfare, 1974.

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"Herzen and James: Freedom as Radical", Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol. 14, #3-4, 1974.

"Crisis, Context, and Community", Journal of Thought, Vol. 9, #1, 1974.

"Plato on Death and Dying", Journal of Thought, Vol. 9, #4, 1974.

1973 : "Is there a Counter Culture", Connecticut Critic, 1973.

"Chaadayev and Emerson: Two Mystic Pragmatists", The Russian Review, 1973.

"Unveiling/Legitimizing: Art as Paradox", Religious Humanism, Autumn 1973.

1972: Co-author with C.K Gavin, "Phenomenology: The Life-Space of the Elderly", Religious Humanism, Autumn 1972.

"The Importance of Ambiguity in Russian and American Culture", Listening, 1972.

Review: The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point, Philip Slater, Religious Humanism, Vol. IV, #1, Winter 1972.

1971: "Irony and Galileo's Relativity Principle", Thought, June 1971.

"The Urban and the Aesthetic", Religious Humanism, Autumn 1971.

Review: The Philosophical Life of the Senses, Donald Kuspit, International Philosophical Quarterly, June 1971.

Review: The Making of a Counter Culture, Theodore Roszak, International Philosophical Quarterly, June 1971.

1970: "The New Quest for Certainty", The New England Review, January-February 1970.

"Neutrality: The Dialogue's Greatest Enemy", Religious Humanism, Summer 1970.

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"Must Education Be Neutral?" Listening, Spring-Autumn 1970.

Review: The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox, Thought, Winter 1970.

Review: An Essay on Liberation, Herbert Marcuse, International Philosophical Quarterly, December 1970.

1969: "The Meaning of a Person: Reflections on Descartes in the Light of the 20th Century", Existential Psychiatry, Summer-Fall 1969.

1968 : "Paradox, Harmony and Mysticism: The Modernity of Philo of Alexandria", The Cord, May 1968.

Papers Read: Co-presented with Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich, “Language and

Its Discontents: William James, Richard Rorty, and Interactive Constructivism,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Convention, Charlotte, NC, March 12, 2010

“For Whom the Bell Tolls: Death & Dying in the 21st Century,” University ofSouthern Maine, Spring 2010 Lecture Series, Portland, ME, March 2, 2010

“Pragmatism and the Individual at the End of Life,” Group Session, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Dec 28, 2007

“The Context of Diversity vs. The Problem of Diversity,” Dewey-Center Koln, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany, May 21, 2007

“William James and the Need to Preserve “The Vague’,” Dewey-Center Koln, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany, May 18, 2007

“The ‘Experiences’ of Experience,” reply to Martin Jay’s “The Life World and Lived Experience in Husserl and Heidegger,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 10, 2006

“’Problem’ vs. ‘Trouble’: James, Kafka, Dostoevsky and ‘The Will to Believe,’” Presidential Address, Annual Meeting, William James Society,

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American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, New York, NY, Dec 29, 2005

“The Importance of ‘Context’ in the Philosophy of John Dewey,” American Philosophy Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 25, 2005

“Mysticism as a Vague ‘Exemplar’,” response to F. Hodges “Mysticism in William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience,” Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Bakersfield, CA, March 4, 2005

“Between Logic and Philosophy: A Jamesian View,” James/Levinas Seminar Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, July 13, 2004

“William James and the Importance of ‘The Vague’ in Our Experience,” James/Levinas Seminar Program, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC July 12, 2004

"William James and the Importance of 'the Vague' in Our Experience," Invited lecture, Tendency of Philosophy: A Sino-American Dialogue Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 10, 2002

" 'The Locality is the Only Universal': John J. McDermott On American Culture and Experience," Conference Exploring the Philosophy of John J. McDermott, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Oct. 12-13, 2001.

"Vagueness, Death, and Dying," William James Society, Inaugural Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, GA, December 29, 2001

"Dewey, Death, and Dying," annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, NV, March 10-13, 2001.

"Reflections on the Ubermensch," Nietzsche Panel, Philosophy Symposium, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, April 5, 2001.

"Reflections on the Madman Parable," Nietzsche Panel, Philosophy Symposium, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, April 13, 2000.

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"William James on Death and Dying," National University of Ireland, Galway, November 3, 1999

"The 'Thick' and the ‘Thin’, the 'Tame' and the 'Wild': Jamesian Reflections on Death and Dying," annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eugene, OR, February 26, 1999.

"A Jamesian Approach to Death and Dying," keynote address, Graduate Philosophy Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, November 7, 1998

"'Pure' vs. 'Impure' Experience: William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism," annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Milwaukee, WI, March 6, 1998

"How Things Go Wrong in Our Experience: John Dewey vs. Franz Kafka vs. William Carlos Williams," annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Milwaukee, WI, March 7, 1998

"The Woman, the Warrior, and the Wedding: James's Pragmatism, Marriage, and Divorce," annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Albuquerque, NM, March 1997 "Metaphor in William James's Pragmatism," University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME, February 13, 1997

"Whose Hero-ine? Which History? On Acceptance And/Or Denial In Death And Dying," University of Southern Maine Honors Weekend, Portland, ME, April 1996

"Vagueness Untamed, or Naming the Unnamable", University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, February 17, 1994

"Relationships Between Two Universities Within a Sister-City Context: A Personal Account", University of Maine System-Wide Sugarloaf Conference, Sugarloaf, ME, Oct. 23, 1993

"William James, Aristotle and Japan: the Importance of the Vague", June 16, 1992, Rissho University, Shinagawa, Japan.

"Language and Technology as 'Probes' into Death and Dying", June 8, 1992, Wasada University, Tokyo, Japan.

"Brain Death: Death and Dying in America", June 2, 1992, Rissho University, Shinagawa, Japan.

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"Issues in Death and Dying", May 22, 1992, Wasada University, Tokyo, Japan.

"Metaphors Reveal as Well as Conceal: Images of Japan", Popular Culture Association, Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 1990.

"Whose Joy? Which Learning?" The Joy of Learning Symposium, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, November 4, 1989.

"The Limits of Rationality: A Jamesian Strain in Dewey and Marx", University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME, November 6, 1987.

"William James and The Attack on Certainty: A Defense of Ambiguity in Literature, Psychology, and Philosophy", University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME, Nov 5, 1987.

"Re-Covering vs. Re-Covering, or Thinking Through the Question, 'What Socrates Began'", Russell Chair Symposium, University of Southern Maine; USM Philosophy Club, Portland, ME, Spring 1987.

"A Philosopher's View of Medical Ethics", Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, September 19, 1986.

"Death, Dying and Modern Technology", Maine Society for Respiratory Care, Sugarloaf, ME September 11, 1986.

"William James and the Need to Preserve 'the Vague'", Russell Chair Lecture, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, March 19, 1986.

Invited Speaker, "John Dewey and the Importance of Context", Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 25, 1985.

"John Dewey: Philosophy as Context and the Context of Philosophy", Russell Chair Lecture, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, March 26, 1985.

"Second Trimester Abortions: Philosophical and Ethical Considerations", Department of Nursing, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, Feb 1984.

Invited Participant, Joint Colloquium on the Nature of Society, a meeting of Philosophers from the U.S.A. and Bulgaria sponsored by the

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International Society for Metaphysics, Boston College, Boston, MA, August 1983.

"Regional Ontologies, Types of Meaning and 'The Will to Believe' in the Philosophy of William James", annual meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Carbondale, IL, March 1983.

"The Use of Trials as a Pedagogical Device in Interdisciplinary Courses", co-presented with Professor Jeremiah Conway, National Conference, The Association for General and Liberal Studies, Minneapolis, MN, Fall, 1982.

"En Attendant La Mort: Plato's Socrates, Tolstoy's Ivan Illych and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, annual meeting, Maine Philosophical Institute, Portland, ME, May 1981. "William James, God and Actual Possibility", American Catholic Philosophical Association, annual convention, St. Louis, MO, April 1981.

Invited lecturer, "John Dewey's Aesthetics and the Modern City", Urban Leadership Seminar, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, Spring 1980.

Invited lecturer, "Medicine and a Humanistic Ethics", University of Southern Maine chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, Portland, ME, May 1979.

Invited speaker, "William James: Positivist, Phenomenologist or Pragmatist?” Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, November 1977.

Invited speaker, "Jamesian Psychology and its Epistemology", College of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, March, 1977.

Invited participant, Conference on Ethics in Business and the Professions, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Nov. 1976.

William James' "Philosophy of Science", International Bicentennial Program in American Philosophy, Biltmore Hotel, New York, NY, October 1976.

"William James on Science, Perception, and Language", Annual Meeting, Maine Philosophic Institute, Portland, ME, May 1976.

Invited speaker, "William James and the Importance of 'The Vague'", Colby College, Waterville, ME, April 1976.

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"William James and the Indeterminacy of Language and 'The Really Real'", American Catholic Philosophical Association, annual convention, Biltmore Hotel, New York, NY, April 1976.

Invited paper presentation at the Modern Language Association annual convention, "Art vs. Science in Dewey and Chernychevsky", San Francisco, CA, December 1975.

Main speaker: Symposium: "William James as Thinker", Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 23, 1975.

Invited speaker, "Human Welfare and American Philosophy", St. Joseph's College Symposium for the American Bicentennial, Standish, ME, September 25, 1974.

Sessions Organized and/or Chaired by Invitation: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Spokane, WA, March 2011

Topic: “New Horizons in William James Studies”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Columbia, SC, March 2007

Topic: “Santayana, Dewey, and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 2006

Topic: “Political Theory”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Birmingham, AL, March 2004

Topic: “William James and the Citadel of the Self”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2003.

Topic: "Royce on Ethics, Globalization and Logic"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Portland, Maine, March 7-9, 2002.

Topic: "William James's Varieties: Emotions as/in Religion Experience"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December, 2001.

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Topic: "William James Revisited"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 10-13, 2001.

Topic: Phil Oliver's William James's "Springs of Delight": The Return to Life.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December, 2000 New York City.

Topic: "Dewey and Democracy Revisited"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, December 1999, Boston

Topic: “Passing Dewey By: Essays for the New Millennium”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, February 1999, Eugene, Oregon

Topic: "Naturalism and Spirituality: Living, Death, and Dying"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, March 1996, Toronto, Canada.

Topic: “William James's Philosophy of Religion”

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March1995, Waltham, Mass.

Topic: "American Philosophy and the Future of Democracy"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March1993, Nashville.

Topic: "Fostering Community"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March1992, Cincinnati.

Topic: "Political Philosophy"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division,

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December, 1991, New York, NYTopic: "Charlene Haddock Seigfried's William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, December, 1990, Boston, MA

Topic: "Cornel West's 'The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism'."

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, State University of New York, March 1990, Buffalo, NY

Topic: "Recent American Naturalism from a Soviet Perspective"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, December 1989, Atlanta, GA

Topic: "John Dewey's Epistemology"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March 1989, Chicago, IL

Topic: "Emerson, James, and Nietzsche"

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March 1985, Atlanta, GA

Topic: "American Philosophy and the Soviet Union"

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Convention, Fall 1982, Kansas City, MO

Topic: "Marxist Critiques of American Philosophy"

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Convention, Fall 1979, New Haven, CT

Topic: "Marxist Critiques of American Philosophy" Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, March 1976, New York, NY

Topic: "Social Philosophy" Service to the University, School, and DepartmentUniversity of Southern Maine 2007. Chair, Philosophy Department Chair, Fall 2007 ,Spring 2008

Honors Faculty Board, Spring 2007, Fall 2007Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 2007Ireland Scholarship Committee, Fall 2007Commencement Committee, Spring 2007, Fall 2007

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University Marshall, Commencement, May, 20072006 Search Committee for New Director, Honors Program, Fall 2006

Honors Faculty Board, Spring 2006, Fall 2006Peer Evaluation Committee, Chair, Fall 2006Ireland Scholarship Committee, Fall 2006Commencement Committee, Spring 2006, Fall 2006University Trustee Scholar Committee, Spring 2006University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2006

2005 Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Spring 2005Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 2005Honors Faculty Board, Spring 2005Commencement Committee, Spring 2005Russell Chair Section Committee, Spring 2005Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring 2005University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2005

2004 Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Spring 2004, Fall 2004Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 2004, Fall 2004Honors Faculty Board, Spring 2004, Fall 2004Commencement Committee, Spring 2004, Fall 2004Ireland Scholarship Committee, Fall 2004University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2004

2003.Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 2002, Spring 2003Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 2003Department Search Committee, Spring 2003Ireland Scholarship Committee, Spring 2003USM Honors Program Faculty Board, Fall 2002, Spring 2003Member of Chair Committee to evaluate Honors Director, Spring 2003Commencement Committee, Fall 2002, Spring 2003 University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2003

2002.Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 2001, Spring 2002Ireland Scholarship Committee, Spring 2002Member, Peer Evaluation Committee, Honors Program, Spring

2002Commencement Committee, Fall 2001, Spring 2002

2001.Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 2000, Spring 2001Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee, Fall 2000Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 2001Member, Search Committee, 2 positions, Spring 2001Ireland Scholarship Committee, Spring 2001

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Honors Program Faculty Board, Fall 2000. Spring 2001Blue Cross-Blue Shield Scholarship Committee, Spring 2001Member, HEH Committee on Africa and the Balkins, Spring, 2001Commencement Committee, Fall 2000, Spring 2001University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2001

2000.Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 2000, Spring 2000Ireland Scholarship Committee, Spring 2000Honors Program Faculty Board Spring 2000, East Asia Committee, Spring 2000Commencement Committee, Fall 1999, Spring 2000 University Marshall, Commencement, May, 2000

1998-99 Honors Advisory Committee, Spring 1999 Blue Cross/Blue Shield Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring

1999 Committee on the Status of Emeritus Professors, Spring 1999 Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Spring 1999 East Asia Committee, Spring 1999 Commencement Committee, Fall 2002, Spring 1999University Marshall, Commencement, May, 1999

1997-98 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1997, Spring 1998 Blue Cross/Blue Shield Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring

1998 Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee, Fall

1997, Spring 1998. Chair, biannual evaluation of Prof. Conway, Spring 1998

Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 1997, Spring 1998 East Asia Committee, fall 1997, Spring 1998 Committee on the Status of Emeritus Professors, Fall 1998 University Marshall, Commencement, May, 1998

1996-1997 Honors Advisory committee, Fall 1996, Spring 1997 Blue Cross/Blue Shield Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring

1997 Chair, Philosophy department Peer Evaluation Committee,

Quadrennial Evaluation, Spring 1997 Philosophy Department Library Liaison, Fall 1996, Spring 1997 Member, Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee,

Biannual evaluation, Spring 1997

1995-1996 Co-Chair, Philosophy Department, Fall 1996 Honors Faculty Board, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring

1996.

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East Asia Committee, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996. Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring

1996. 1994-1995 Honors Faculty Board, Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995.

Presidential Scholarship Committee, Fall 1994, Spring 1995. Honors Committee for Blue Cross/Blue Shield Scholarships,

Spring 1995. Philosophy Department Guest Speaker Committee, Fall 1994,

Spring 1995. East Asia Selection Committee for Faculty and Students to go to

Rissho University, Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995. Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring

1995. Honors Committee for Annual Honors weekend, Fall 1995.

1993-1994 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1993, Spring 1994. Presidential Scholarship Committee, Spring 1994. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Honors Scholarship Committee, Spring

1994. Philosophy Department Guest Speaker Committee, Fall 1993,

Spring 1994. Chair, Philosophy Department Search Committee for one-year

appointment in Philosophy of Religion and Environmental Ethics, Spring 1994

Member, Honors Program Search Committee for new Director Selection Committee for Faculty and Students to go to Rissho

University, Spring 1994. Chair, Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring

1994Member Philosophy Department Search Committee for one-year

appointment in Early Modern Philosophy and Feminist Theory, Spring 1994.

1992-1993 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1992, Spring 1993. Presidential Scholarship Committee, Spring 1993. Honors Committee for Blue Cross/Blue Shield Scholarships,

Spring 1993. Philosophy Department Personnel Committee, Spring 1993;

chaired one committee for promotion to Full Professor.

1991-1992 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1991, Spring 1992. Task Force Pluralism Committee, Fall 1991. Philosophy Department Personnel Committee, Fall 1991, Spring

1992.

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Chair, Philosophy Peer Review Committee, Spring 1992. Philosophy Department Faculty Advisor to student Philosophical

Symposium, Fall 1991, Spring 1992. Philosophy Department Self-Study Sub-Committee, Spring

1992.

1990-1991 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1990, Spring 1991. Task Force Pluralism Committee, Fall 1990, Spring 1991. Core Curriculum Planning Project, Spring 1991. Philosophy Department Faculty Search Committee, Fall 1990,

Spring 1991. Philosophy Department Personnel Committee, Fall 1990, Spring

1991Chair, Philosophy Department Peer Review Committee for

Professorial reappointment, Spring 1991 Philosophy Department, Faculty Advisor to the student

Philosophical Symposium, Fall 1990, Spring 1991. Two speakers brought to campus: Dr. William Desmond, September 1990; Dr. Rihoto Kimura, March 1991.

Convocation Committee (East Asia), Fall 1990, Spring 1991. Presidential Scholarship Committee, Spring 1991.

1989-1990 Honors Advisory Committee, Fall 1989, Spring 1990. Member and Chair, Philosophy Department Search Committee,

Fall 1989, Spring 1990. Advisor, Philosophy Student Association, Fall 1989, Spring 1990

(Four guest lecturers brought to campus). 1991 Convocation Committee (The Far East), Fall 1989, Spring

1990. Selection Committee, Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair, Spring

1990. Presidential Scholarship Committee, 1989, 1990.

1988-1989 Member, Honors Program Committee, Fall 1988, Spring 1989.

Member, Convocation Committee (Soviet Union) Fall 1988, Spring, 1989.

Guest Speaker Series Organizer, Philosophy Department Member and Chair, Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation

Committee(tenure decision), Fall 1988.

Member, Philosophy Department Peer Evaluation Committee, Fall 1988.

Member, Philosophy Department Search Committee, Fall 1988, Spring 1989.

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1987-1988 Member, Honors Program Planning Committee, Fall 1987, Spring, 1989.

Member and Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee, (tenure decision), Fall 1987

Member and Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee, Spring 1988

Guest Lecture Series Organizer, Philosophy Department, Fall 1987, Spring 1988

1986-1987 Member and Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

Member, Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

Member, Personnel Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

Member, Honors Program Planning Committee, Fall 1986, Spring 1987 Member, Critical Thinking Committee, Core Curriculum, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

Lecture Series Organizer, Philosophy Department, Fall 1986, Spring 1987

1985-1986 Chair, Philosophy Department, Fall 1985, Spring 1986.Honors Program Curriculum Planning Committee (supported by a

grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities), Spring 1986

Personnel Committee, Philosophy Department (ex officio) Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department (ex officio)

1984-1985 Chair, Philosophy Department, Fall 1984, Spring 1985 Faculty Senate Summer Stipends Committee, Fall 1984, Spring

1985 Personnel Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 1984, Spring

1985 Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 1984, Spring

1985

Service to the Community 2007.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2006, Spring 2007

Instructor, Traditional Irish Dance

2006.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

Instructor, Traditional Irish Dance

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2005.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2004, Spring 2005

Instructor, Traditional Irish Dance

2004.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2003, Spring 2004

Instructor, Traditional Irish Dance Member Arts & Culture Committee, Maine Irish Heritage Center

2003.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2002, Spring 2003

Instructor, Traditional Irish DanceMember Arts & Culture Committee, Maine Irish Heritage Center

2001.Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 2000, Spring 2001

Instructor, Traditional Irish Dance, Center for Cultural Exchange

1999-2000 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1999, Spring 2000

1998-1999 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Spring 1999-Fall 1999

1997-1998 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1997, Spring 1998

1996-1997 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1996-Spring 1997

1995-1996 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1995, Spring 1996

1994-1995 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1994, Spring 1995

1993-1994 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1993, Spring 1994.

Portland-Shinagawa 10th Anniversary Committee, Fall 1993, Spring 1994.

1992-1993 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1992, Spring 1993.

Portland-Shinagawa 10th Anniversary Committee, Fall 1992, Spring 1993.

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1991-1992 Board of Corporators, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1991, Spring 1992.

1989-1990 Ethics Committee, Maine Medical Center, 1989, 1990.

1988-1989 Member, Pediatric Bioethics Committee, Maine Medical Center,

Fall 1988, Spring 1989. Member, Maine Educational Assessment, State of Maine,

Departmentof Educational and Cultural Services, Humanities

Committee, Fall 1988.

1987-1988 Member, Medical Ethics Committee, Maine Medical Center, Fall 1987, Spring 1988.

1986-1987 Gubernatorial Appointee, Maine Humanities Council. Executive Board, Maine Humanities Council. Public Policy Sub-Committee, Maine Humanities Council. Infant Child Care Review Committee, Maine Medical

Center.

1985-1986 Gubernatorial Appointee, Maine Humanities Council. Executive Committee, Maine Humanities Council. Nominating Committee, Maine Humanities Council. Infant Child Care Review Committee, Maine Medical

Center.

1984-1985 Gubernatorial Appointee, Maine Humanities Council. Public Policy Sub-Committee, Maine Humanities Council. Infant Child Care Review Committee, Maine Medical

Center. Co-Teacher in the University of Southern Maine's Summer

Institutefor Gifted and Talented High School Students, June

19-July 3, 1984

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